Jenny Slate ‘Dated’ Blake Lively on It Ends With Us

It ends with us it was just the beginning Blake Lively again Jenny Slate.

The two actors are playing major roles in the upcoming film adaptation Colleen Hooverbest-selling novel, and it seems they have found kindred spirits in each other.

“I fell in love with him,” said Slate, 42, in an interview Entertainment Tonight published on Sunday, August 4. “Obviously, I’ve long admired Blake… [she’s] fresh, detail-oriented, highly organized – knowing, like, what page in the script things are happening on. You can say, ‘I see that, but he doesn’t really get this until page 96.’”

In It ends with usSlate plays Allysa, the best friend of Lively’s character, Lily Bloom, who is in an uneasy relationship with Allysa’s brother, Ryle Kincaid (played by Justin Baldoni). Lily and Ryle’s life is improved by the return of Lily’s first love, Atlas Corrigan (played by Brandon Sklenar).

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Along with being friends on screen, it looks like Slate has found a new friend in real life, too.

“[She’s a] someone who is deeply trustworthy and willing to share with others. We had long conversations. I didn’t expect to have the experience I had,” said the actor.

He continued, “I was really looking forward to working with Blake, but to really be friends with someone who is so talented in so many ways – like, like a real winner … I’m so grateful for this wonderful person.”

The sentiment is similar for Lively, 36, who said that she and Slate are related in their lives. Lively is married to him Ryan Reynolds, with whom they share four children: daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, and Betty, 4, and son Olin, 18 months. Slate, on the other hand, has a 3-year-old daughter, Ida, with her husband,Ben Shattuck.

“I love Jenny so much, and she’s been such an anchor for me in so many ways. “She’s full of love and light, but she’s also stable,” Lively said Entertainment Tonight.

“When you work, sometimes you feel guilty, you know, not being in your life during those hours when you are at work,” he added. “Just knowing that someone else has been through the same situation was very foundational.”

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Lively recently promised that the film adaptation of It ends with us will satisfy even the most diehard fans of Hoover’s 2016 novel of the same name.

“Some people will always like the book better than the movie and some people will like the movie better than the book. But I think we did our best to respect the book and to respect the fans, and, I think, we actually made something that works on its own,” Lively said in an interview with June. Entertainment Tonight.

“There are many different things you want to accomplish in this story,” said Lively. “I am proud of this film. I’m proud to be here and to share with Colleen and the fans. It’s really special. It was a great honor to face Lily, and I’m proud.”