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Justin Baldoni is speaking out about his experience directing and starring in this summer’s It Ends with Us. The 40-year-old actor/director portrayed the role of Ryle Kincaid opposite Blake Lively‘s Lily Bloom. Keep reading to find out more… Justin spoke out about his experience on Elizabeth Day’s “How to Fail” podcast. You may remember there was some behind-the-scenes drama that supposedly went down. He said, “Directing is a very lonely job, I’ll just be very candid. Because you are kind of at the top of this totem pole. In your moments of quiet, everybody has a thousand questions for you and also nobody wants to disturb you and you don’t really have many people to talk to and you can’t necessarily share your anxiety or your nervousness about something because you’re also the leader.” Justin continued, “So it’s a very strange place to be, let alone directing while trying to play a character who does the things that Ryle does in the movie so there were moments in the filming of this where I would just have to leave. I’d have to remove myself and go shake it out. I mean, I’ve done a lot of somatic therapy so there were times when I was actually just shaking. There’s a moment in the movie where Ryle finds Lily’s phone and he finds a phone number and he’s very jealous and he’s heartbroken and he’s angry and he doesn’t harm her but you can see in his eyes how dangerous he is. After that scene, I had a near breakdown.” He added, “And I had to leave and just cry and shake because there was so much pain. What’s hard about a character like that isn’t necessarily what he does. What he does is a result of what he has kept in and so what’s hard about having that in your body is having the trauma live in your body of what he’s experienced or creating that trauma in your body and creating that insecurity and the pain and the feeling that you shouldn’t actually be alive. Your brother should be. It’s all your fault. Nobody really loves you. That was very hard and that took a few months. I had dreams as him for a while, and it lived in my body but I think for the most part, he’s out.” One of the cast members from the film actually addressed the rumored drama that happened on set.
