Fans Are Not Happy About Blake Lively’s Casting In That Colleen Hoover Movie

Whenever new book-to-movie adaptations are announced, it’s always interesting to see who gets cast as characters people have spent so much time imagining. So, when it was announced that Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively would be staring in It Ends with Us, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling book, many fans were excited, however, the casting news, especially regarding the actress, has also sparked quite a bit of backlash from fans of Lively as well as fans and critics of the book. 

According to Today, there are two main points of backlash that caused this strong reaction. The first point was made because Lively is 35, and in the book the main character Lily is 23. However, the bigger point of controversy lies in people not wanting Lively to take the role, because of the controversy the book has sparked. The novel is about a woman in an abusive relationship, and it has been criticized for glorifying abuse, DomesticShelters.org wrote that it thinks the book “romanticizes red flags and glorifies a charismatic-but-dangerous man.”