Justin Baldoni has hired Johnny Depp's crisis manager amid the reported 'It Ends With Us' cast drama. Baldoni has hired veteran PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan who represented Johnny Depp during the Amber Heard trial. The news comes amid the reported rift and fallout between the cast specifically star Blake Lively and director and star Baldoni during the release of 'It Ends With Us,' the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's 2016 hit book.
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00:00Justin Baldoni has hired Johnny Depp's crisis manager amid the reported It Ends With Us cast
00:05drama. Baldoni has hired veteran PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan, who represented Johnny
00:12Depp during the Amber Heard trial. The news comes amid the reported rift and fallout between the
00:17cast, specifically star Blake Lively and director and star Baldoni, during the release of It Ends
00:23With Us, the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's 2016 hit book. Chatter spiked when fans noticed
00:29Baldoni's absence from joint press events and the lack of photos of Lively and Baldoni together
00:34anywhere since the film was made. Some also pointed out that neither Lively,
00:38Hoover, nor the rest of the cast follow Baldoni on Instagram, though they all follow each other
00:43and he follows them. Sources have told THR that there was a fracture between Baldoni and Lively
00:48in the post-production stage, wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged. Lively
00:53commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reed, who was an editor on Deadpool and Wolverine,
00:58according to multiple sources. The hiring of a crisis PR manager comes as Baldoni has
01:04been the subject of negative headlines over allegations that he made Lively uncomfortable
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