Colleen Hoover Reveals The Scene From 'It Ends With Us' That Left Her ‘A Little Jarred’

Interview with Colleen Hoover and Brandon Sklenar

Transcript

00:00there's a moment from it starts with us in this movie where atlas notices um lily's tattoo

00:05colleen i was wondering how you reacted when you found out that this was going to be moved up

00:09to this um into this movie um i actually feel like i don't know which came first the second

00:19book or reading the first script i can't remember but i know um seeing it on film

00:26was a different experience because in the in the first draft i feel like it was more of a

00:33fun moment between them and so in editing we pulled back a little and didn't have as much

00:40conversation surrounding it because i was like that's a really big moment where he's kind of

00:45upset to see this tattoo and and the marks on it and it would be hard for him you know so i don't

00:51think he would relate it back to like fun times between them um so the first time i saw it i was

00:57a little jarred but then once editing happened around that scene it became one of my favorite

01:02scenes so hospital yeah yeah yeah i mean it's an interesting um moment i hear you like the hospital

01:11scene is so heavy and so emotional and then it's this moment of like oh you know and just it's kind

01:18of a bittersweet a moment it really is um yeah i kind of had the same feeling about it i had to

01:26like work that out in my brain for a minute but it does work because i don't you didn't see the first

01:30cut of the film yeah so you just saw the but just in doing the scene i was like oh that's interesting

01:35it's like it's tough it's tough to work that out you know yeah because it is such a heavy moment

01:41for her and and it is uh it's a very bittersweet in that moment yeah

01:53you