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Writer Christy Hall On Balancing The Complex Subject Matter In ‘It Ends With Us’: “It’s Art’s Job To Create Safe Spaces”
Writer Christy Hall talks to Deadline about the process of adapting Colleen Hoover's popular novel 'It Ends with Us'
The film, adapted to screen by Christy Hall, who also wrote and directed her first feature in this year’s Daddio, follows Lily Bloom ( Blake Lively), who overcomes a traumatic childhood to start a new life in Boston where she can accomplish her lifelong dream of opening her own flower shop. An example of this would be, typically, in screenwriting, you’re taught that very rarely can you get away with the title actually being spoken in dialogue, and obviously, in the book, Lily says to her daughter, “It ends with us.” So, I thought it was a worthy exploration in the film version, to be like, well, maybe she says, “It stops right here, bub. I want us to be a family.” And the fact that these two women are talking privately, that she is more invested in Lily’s safety and health and happiness over saving face, I feel like victims are often asked to question and not necessarily to fight for themselves.
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