The never-ending saga of drama from It Ends With Us continues. This time with Justin Baldoni’s team sending a subpoena to Taylor Swift. The pop star is being roped into the lawsuits between Baldoni and It Ends With Us star Blake Lively.
Swift, who is friends with Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, licensed her song “My Tears Ricochet” for the movie to use. The song was featured in a trailer. But other than that, the pop star claims to have nothing to do with the situation between Lively and Baldoni. Baldoni’s team seems to think that Swift helped with writing a scene that Lively reworked.
Lively reportedly changed a rooftop scene in the film and allegedly recruited Reynolds and Swift to show their support on Lively’s edits to try to get Baldoni on board. According to Baldoni, he sent to Lively that he liked her work. He sent Lively a text that read “Also was working on rooftop scene today, I really love what you did. It really does [help] a lot. Makes it so much more fun and interesting. (And I would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor) You really are a talent across the board. Really excited [and] grateful to do this together.”
A spokesperson for Swift released a statement to Variety: “Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.”
I’m sure this has nothing to do with Lively’s best friend being Swift…
This move doesn’t exactly scream “justice.” If anything, it feels like a tactical choice from Baldoni’s team to bring in a high profile name to keep people talking. Swift was on tour. Even if she did try to help her friend out by saying how good a scene was, that doesn’t mean that she helped write on the movie or whatever narrative is being pushed.
Swift’s team seems to think the same as the spokesperson also spoke about why they think Baldoni’s team subpoenaed her in the first place. “Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case,” said the spokesperson.
Whatever the reasoning, all of this just feels messy and it is on Baldoni’s team. There is no reason to subpoena Swift. If she was there to talk about the rooftop scene, that was, at the time, seemingly okay and Baldoni did not outright say he did not want Reynolds or Swift there. Either way, throwing Taylor Swift’s name into this mess is just to get headlines and the Swifties won’t like that.
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