“It Ends With Us” gets into pretty heavy subject material, being a story about domestic violence. But there was one scene in particular that sent the film’s director and co-lead, Justin Baldoni, into a “near breakdown.”

Appearing on Wednesday’s episode of Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail podcast, Baldoni opened up about the struggles of directing on the film, admitting that directing in general “is a very lonely job,” because “you can’t necessarily share your anxiety or your nervousness about something because you’re also the leader.”

“So it’s a very strange place to be, let alone directing while trying to play a character who does the things that Ryle does in the movie,” he said.

“So there were moments in the filming of this where I would just have to leave. I’d have to remove myself and go shake it out.”

Among those moments...