00:00Justin Baldoni has hired Johnny Depp's crisis manager amid the reported It Ends With Us cast drama.
00:07Baldoni has hired veteran PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan, who represented Johnny Depp during the Amber Heard trial.
00:14The news comes amid the reported rift and fallout between the cast, specifically star Blake Lively and director and star Baldoni,
00:21during the release of It Ends With Us, the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's 2016 hit book.
00:27Chatter spiked when fans noticed Baldoni's absence from joint press events
00:31and the lack of photos of Lively and Baldoni together anywhere since the film was made.
00:36Some also pointed out that neither Lively, Hoover, nor the rest of the cast follow Baldoni on Instagram,
00:41though they all follow each other and he follows them.
00:44Sources have told THR that there was a fracture between Baldoni and Lively in the post-production stage,
00:50wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged.
00:52Lively commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reed, who is an editor on Deadpool and Wolverine,
00:58according to multiple sources.
01:01The hiring of a crisis PR manager comes as Baldoni has been the subject of negative headlines
01:05over allegations that he made Lively uncomfortable on set.
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