Justin Baldoni is giving his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively all the credit for getting Taylor Swift to lend her voice to the newly-released trailer for their film. Talking with ET's Kevin Frazier from Sunday's premiere of The Garfield Movie -- which hits theaters on May 24 -- the 40-year-old Jane the Virgin actor shared that to get Swift's "My Tears Ricochet" as the background music for the first trailer, Lively, 36, cashed in on her longtime friendship with the 34-year-old crooner. "That's all Blake," Baldoni told ET.
"I have no idea [how she did it] but Blake knows everybody...
her and Taylor are very good friends. I'm so happy that they agreed to have a song in the trailer, it's so perfect for the movie." In the trailer, Baldoni and Lively -- who star as Ryle Kincaid and Lily Bloom , respectively -- experience the early stages of love and romance before things take a sudden and drastic turn.
The film follows Lily, who finds herself in an abusive relationship and desperately searching for a way out, when a former friend -- played by Brandon Sklenar -- comes back into her life at the right time. The movie, which also stars Jenny Slate and Hasan Minhaj , is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover . Baldoni told ET over the weekend that while fan reactions to photos from the set back in May 2023 -- which showed Lively with red hair and funky costumes -- were mixed, he is excited by the overall sentiment in the days since the trailer dropped.
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