When it comes to upcoming book-to-screen adaptations of popular novels like Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us, there are always going to be passionate thoughts about how Hollywood handles things. And when it comes to turning the bestselling romance book into a film, readers have not been happy about Blake Lively starring in the movie, primarily due to her and her co-star’s ages. Well, Hoover has seen the complaints and has offered her take on why she’s actually “extremely happy” about the movie.
The 2016 novel, which remains on Amazon’s bestseller list years later, along with three other Colleen Hoover books, follows a 23-year-old college graduate named Lily Bloom, who ventures out to Boston to fulfill her dreams of owning a flower shop. There she meets a neurosurgeon a few years older than her with whom she begins a relationship. Blake Lively is 35, while her co-star, Justin Baldoni, is 39. Hoover responded to the criticism, saying this:
