Justin Baldoni’s “It Ends With Us” body double, Thomas Canestraro, detailed how allegedly “tense” it was on set while filming the hit movie.
“You could tell that the set was tense. There was some discomfort from everybody,” he told the Daily Mail.
Canestraro — who took Baldoni’s character Ryle Kincaid’s place for several action-packed scenes involving Blake Lively’s character, Lily Bloom — said he had a feeling something had happened between the two main actors.
“What I did experience was filming that was taking longer than expected,” he said, adding that he was originally supposed to film for five days but stayed in Weehawken, NJ, for two weeks.
The drawn-out filming prompted the stunt double, 38, to ask himself, “What’s happening here? Why are we taking so much time to film all of this scene? Why are we not on schedule?”
Canestraro noticed a difference in Lively, 37, than when they worked on a marketing campaign together for the 2018 movie “A Simple Favor.”
During the shoot, he said he had an “extremely easy time” working with the “Gossip Girl” alum and she made sure he was given a bathroom after the photo shoot wrapped.
However, when Canestraro reunited with Lively on the set of “It Ends With Us,” he noticed she was “more closed off” and that her husband, Ryan Reynolds, had visited the set.
“Originally, I came on set my first day, Ryan is on set, and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God. What a cool thing.’ It’s like when I was in ‘A Simple Favor.’ What a supportive husband who just came on set to cheer his wife … I just love that about them, that’s a cool synergy in that couple,’” he recalled.
Canestraro began to get more clarity, however, when he started seeing headlines about Lively’s sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni last December.
“And now I’m like, ‘Oh, was Blake already in such a bad place that Ryan just came to make sure that she was OK?’” he told the Daily Mail.
Canestraro called Baldoni, 41, “extremely friendly,” but told the outlet that they did not keep in touch after filming.
“He has a wife, he has family, he has friends, and he has people who, right now, some of them believe him, some of them have a question mark over his head, and that must not be a good place to be … It must affect him,” the two-time kickboxing world champion said.
Canestraro noted that he isn’t taking a side in Baldoni and Lively’s legal drama and hopes they can settle their differences before their 2026 trial kicks off.
“I don’t even want to be in any team,” he declared.
“I hope they can find an agreement. We don’t need that in the industry. At the same time, you can’t discredit anybody’s feeling[s], and anybody’s experience.”
Page Six has reached out to reps for both Baldoni and Lively but did not immediately hear back.
The drama involving Lively and Reynolds, 48, kicked off last December when the “Another Simple Favor” actress filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, accusing him of sexually harassing her on the set of their 2024 film.
The “Jane the Virgin” actor denied Lively’s claims and, in January, filed a $400 million suit against her, the “Red Notice” star and their publicist, Leslie Sloane, alleging defamation, extortion and more.
The couple’s pal Taylor Swift was also dragged into the legal war as she was subpoenaed to testify in their upcoming trial. However, Page Six confirmed that Baldoni has since dropped the pop star’s subpoena.
Due to the “Bad Blood” singer, 35, being thrown into the legal war, she has reportedly “halted” her friendship with Lively.
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