UPDATE, 1/21/26 at 3:39 p.m. ET:
Court documents obtained by Us Weekly exclusively reveal that she was initially concerned when Justin Baldoni signed on to direct the film adaptation of It Ends With Us.
“I think everyone’s reaction was concern,” the transcript of Hoover’s deposition reveals. “They expressed it and said that they think it should be a woman who directs it.”
Hoover agreed, noting that she said if “they couldn’t find” a female director, she trusted Baldoni.
“I felt like, of all men, with him having the platform he did based on women, that he would be one of the few men I would be...
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