Pop icon Taylor Swift’s connection to Blake Lively’s movie “It Ends With Us,” starring Lively and Justin Baldoni, has deepened via Fox News.
The resurfaced interviews disclosed that Swift might have had a hand in casting Isabela Ferrer, the rising star who played the younger version of Lively’s character, Lily Bloom.
It has been noted that Baldoni wanted to choose an actress who resembled Lively because she is so “recognizable.”
The director noted while Ferrer is a “spitting image” of Lively, she’s also a “phenomenal” actress.
“I was casting, and I had actually brought in and showed her casting tape to Blake and Taylor, and they were both, like, ‘Yes! Her,'” Baldoni said in an interview with “Access Hollywood.”
“And that’s a true story.”
Ferrer claimed Swift had influence over her casting at the premiere of “It Ends With Us” in August.
“I don’t even know if I’m supposed to be saying it, but I’m saying it,” she told the outlet when asked about Swift.
“Yeah, she was a helpful part of the process of the audition, which I found out later after I got it, and that rocked my world. I have no words.”
This isn’t the first time Swift has been linked to “It Ends With Us” after Lively sued Baldoni for sexual harassment. Baldoni responded by suing Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, for civil extortion and defamation.
In a lengthy timeline shared on Baldoni’s website, which also features the actor’s amended lawsuit against Lively and her husband, the actor and director shared a text exchange between the film’s producer, Jamey Heath, a Sony Film executive, and a Sony marketing executive (who had allegedly just spoken with Lively) that details Lively’s alleged “escalating demands” over the film’s release and a “veiled threat” over the use of Swift’s song, “My Tears Ricochet.”
