Justin Baldoni is not fairly prepared to begin one thing new.

Although the It Ends With Us star additionally directed the movie adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel, when it involves the guide’s sequel It Starts With Us, he is received another person in thoughts for the director’s chair: costar Blake Lively.

“I think there are better people for that one,” Justin informed Entertainment Tonight on the film’s Aug. 6 premiere. “I think Blake Lively’s ready to direct, that’s what I think.”

And regardless of followers’ hypothesis of a rift between the 2, the Jane the Virgin alum had nothing however reward for the Gossip Girl actress—who additionally served as a producer—explaining that he tried to create a collaborative surroundings on set for Blake and their fellow solid mates Blake Lively, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate and Isabela Ferrer.

“You can’t summarize Blake’s contribution in a sentence,” he informed Today.com in an interview revealed Aug. 9, “because her energy and imprint is all over the movie and really, really made the film better, and from beginning to end.”