Directing is a very lonely job, I’ll just be very candid.

Because you are kind of at the top of this totem pole, Baldoni said.

So there were moments in the filming of this where I would just have to leave, Baldoni explained.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni star in IT ENDS WITH US

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in ‘It Ends With Us’.Sony

Id have to remove myself and go shake it out.

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After that scene, I had a near breakdown.

And I had to leave and just cry and shake, because there was so much pain.

What’s hard about a character like that isn’t necessarily what he does.

Your brother should be.

It’s all your fault.

Nobody really loves you, he said.

That was very hard and that took a few months.

“It really got me thinking because she knew the character better than anybody,” he said.

“At the time, I was onJane the Virgin, so acting was really all I was doing.

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Listen to Baldoni’s interview in the podcast above.