SPOILER ALERT: For those who haven't read the book, this bit gives away the plot of It Ends With Us.

Seven years after his Ted Talk on toxic masculinity, Jane the Virgin star and Five Feet Apart director Justin Baldoni have teamed up to direct and act in the highly anticipated film adaptation of It Ends With Us, in which he plays the abusive neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid.

Based on Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel, the story centers on Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) who first meets Ryle in a rooftop close-up before meeting him again after she opens her flower shop in Boston. Ryle abandons his no-strings-attached relationship style to pursue Lily and eventually marry her, though she begins to experience violence from him before and after the wedding.

"I was very nervous about playing [Ryle]. My North Star with Ryle was always to look at his humanity, because it's very easy to condemn someone who does the horrible things that he does, and what he does in this film is unforgivable and unjust," Baldoni told Deadline. "To play someone like him, I have to understand him. I was really focused on what are the great qualities that he has, and when I stepped back as a filmmaker, it was really important for me to inject as much goodness into Ryle as possible, because I also had to protect Lily's character, because the movie just won't work if you don't believe that she truly loves him."