A new life in the big city sets up an opportunity for love for Lily Bloom, the main character in Colleen Hoover’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel It Ends With Us. Charismatic neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid is just that opportunity, sweeping Lily off her feet from the get-go. Playing the role of Ryle and helming the film as the director is actor Justin Baldoni, who’s known for his role as Rafael Solano in the hit satirical telenovela Jane the Virgin.
It was actually Hoover that suggested to Baldoni that he was the right man to play Ryle. “Ryle may not be exactly what viewers expect,” he says. “I wanted to portray him as a complex, smart man who has never dealt with old traumas. There is absolutely no excuse for what he does in the film. We wanted to show an example of a complex and seemingly impossible situation that so many people live through. Showing that there may be real love while not running away from that fact that there is also real harm.”
Watch Colleen Hoover talk about adapting her story for the big screen here: https://youtu.be/5lM08ZEM3tU
