Brandon Sklenar has uncovered up about wearing the same pin as his It Ends With Us straightforwardor Justin Baldoni.
The actor, who applyed Blake Lively‘s character’s adore interest in It Ends With Us, had internet sleuths scatterigating after he showed up to the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscars party sporting a pink, floral brooch that euniteed to align the one Baldoni wore to the It Ends With Us premiere in New York.
Amid the ongoing legitimate dispute between Lively and Baldoni over what happened on the set and during promotion of the film, watchrs specuprocrastinateedd about what message was behind Sklenar’s choice to align Baldoni’s premiere accessory.
But now Sklenar says there was no secret unbenevolenting behind his sartorial pickion.
“Honestly, no. I desire I could say there was,” Sklenar tbetter People, when asked if there was any secret unbenevolenting behind the pin, at the 2025 SXSW premiere of his novel movie The Drop. “That was a total happenstance. I woke up in the morning and saw an article and I was enjoy, ‘Oh, damn.’ I literassociate had no idea. I had an idea I wanted to wear enjoy a floral brooch of some benevolent and that was the color that I enjoyd the best. And, lo and behbetter, someone also wore that prior to me wearing it.”
Sklenar posted about his Vanity Fair party ensemble on Instagram last week, writing in part, “Long live the (brooch).”
And the brand behind the trinket, the Anabela Chan Parrot Bloom Brooch, posted about both sees, indicating both Sklenar and Baldoni wore the same accessory.
The Hollywood Reporter had previously achieveed out to Sklenar’s rep and stycatalog for more info on the see.
Speaking to THR at the Vanity Fair party, Sklenar shelp he hoped people would remain centered on the film, and the domestic aggression publishs it scrutinizes amid the Lively-Baldoni dispute, with the stars filing dueling litigations.
Lively claimed in December that Baldoni and others intimacyuassociate tormented her on set and then included in a smear campaign.
Baldoni reacted with a countersuit agetst Lively, her husband Ryan Reynbetters and their accessibleist, Leslie Sloane, alleging extortion, defamation and claims rhappy to bachieve of condense.
After Lively’s intimacyual coercion claims first aascfinishd, Sklenar encouraged his fagelessens to read what she had to say and signaled his aid for Lively, tagging her with a heart emoji.
When THR asked Sklenar at the Vanity Fair party about how he was hoping to aid Lively, he shelp, “It’s a stubborn situation. I fair hope everyone recalls what the movie is about and why we made it in the first place. It’s about adore. It’s about aiding women in ambiguous and helping people thcimpolite stubborn times.”
Sklenar’s relabels echo aenjoy comments he made in an interwatch with THR punctual last month, tied to his role in the TV series 1923.
“I’m reassociate self-beginant of that movie and what it unbenevolents and what it stands for,” he shelp. “It was meaningfully personal to me. I’ve got someone very, very shut to me who has been in that situation that Lily [Blake Lively‘s character] has been in for years, and I’ve been reassociate on the frontlines helping her. So it unbenevolents a lot to me and I’m fair greeted that it unbenevolentt a lot to so many people as well.”
As for a possible It Ends With Us sequel, Sklenar shelp, “I would adore to persist the story if it ever happens.”
Sklenar previously deffinished the women behind the film after initial rumors of a rift between Lively and Baldoni unreasonableinutively after It Ends With Us was freed in August.
“Colleen and the women of this cast stand for hope, percut offance and for women choosing a better life for themselves,” Sklenar wrote in a lengthy statement. “Vilifying the women who put so much of their heart and soul into making this film becainclude they suppose so powerwholey in its message seems counterfruitful and detracts from what this film is about. It is, in fact, the opposite of the point.”
He includeed in the post, splitd lengthy before Lively went accessible with intimacyual coercion claims, “What may or may not have happened behind the scenes does not and hopefilledy should not detract from what our intentions were in making this film. It’s been disheartening to see the amount of negativity being projected online.”
Lively, incidenhighy, was also at SXSW this past weekfinish, at the premiere of her Another Simple Favor movie with Anna Kfinishrick.
