Blake Lively and Anna KendrickThe dynamics have included both the kind Banter and a not so serious hue.
Lively and Kendrick met briefly before they first starred in A simple favor Together they premiered in 2018. It wasn’t until their interactions during the 2018 promotion led to rumors of a possible feud, increasing some proverbial eyebrows. Neither Kendrick nor Lively have publicly addressed any of the speculation.
Six years after A simple favor Released, the duo met for the sequel Another simple favor. In front of the film launch, he said a source exclusively Use weekly That there was no, and there is no bad blood between Kendrick and Lively.
“There is no problem among Blake and Anna right now,” The Insider explained in February 2025, emphasizing that both actresses “really love” the sequel and were planning to “make press together.”
However, Kendrick raised his eyebrows for the second time after he dodged questions about working with Lively again while the couple attended the movie SxSW. Despite Kendrick’s behavior, director Paul Feig Turn off the discourse online That women did not have good condition.
“I just denounced that Blake was landed to walk on the carpet, as Anna is angry and never wants to work with her again,” said a social media user in March 2025, to which Feig replied, “Um … you are wrong.”
Continue to move -you can see what Kendrick and Lively said of each other over the years:
Shadow of joke
In a joint set of 2018 Interview with MTVKendrick had fun in Lively, doing so damn he was not as kind as he initially believed.
“I worked with her husband Ryan (Reynolds) a few years ago, so I met Blake a few times through Ryan in this movie,” Kendrick said. “And I thought it looked nice. And I knew little about it! ”
Suspected social media block
During the couple’s joint interview with the journalist Kjersti flaaKendrick mocked that avoids animated on social media
“There are a couple of people I have silenced,” Kendrick left the August 2018 Clip Before whispering Lively’s name.
Be fan
Lively shared in a September 2018 interview with Entertainment tonight She was excited about the opportunity to work hard with Kendrick after admiring it for quite some time.
“I have been their fan of his for a long time, so there is immediate chemistry; he did not know,” he reflected. “So it was only a real slow, burned until I finally convinced her to be in a movie with (me).”
Enter the DMS
Kendrick joked that after working together I wanted to keep in alive and well.
“Do you know what it is? Ryan is an attractive, famous and successful man and you need to keep them on the foot. He has a great lady and I just need to do -know that Blake has options, you know what I say! “She was mocked E. “I will only be spirited. I will simply slide toward your DMS. “”
1st Impressions
Lively revealed that she and Kendrick met when they were in their adolescence and was “nervous” to get to know her.
“We met through friends and was just after the premiere of rocket science,” he recalled in September 2018 Buzzfeed interview. “You were so good and I was like” Oh, you are so fun and charming. “
Working together
Kendrick shared Buzzfeed in September 2018 that she and Lively had a “crime member atmosphere”.
“Sometimes you work with someone and they are fantastic, they are really great, and they only have a very different style of work, let’s say,” he reflected. “You know, they are the type of person you can’t come with each other and be like” I, let -me tell you what has just happened. “So it was great.”
Joke about the feud
Lively confessed that she had a difficult day in a simple favor that ended her.
“I am still scared for this … When I worked late last night, and so I was told to go in an hour and a half later the next morning, but did not enter you later,” he told Buzzfeed in September 2018. “I came to put in my hair and makeup, and I was like” Oh, so strange, is Anna, where is she? And they were like: ‘Oh, it has been ready for an hour. We did not push his call.
Kendrick said “that was the day” that he decided to “hate” animated.
“He was so mortifying. You are working on all the scenes in this movie and I come for a few weeks as:” Only an hour and a half are waiting for me as I step on my hair! “
SXSW Observations
During the SXSW premiere of March 2025 for Another simple favorKendrick was asked what it was like to go back to work with Lively. Kendrick said “Oh you know” Before you leave To take selfies with fans.
Lively, on the other hand, asked the same question about working with Kendrick and had a different response.
“Oh, it’s the best!” Took the red carpet. “I’m really happy to be here.”
Later that night, Kendrick chatted with variety and asked about his thoughts Another simple favor Be “affected” for what is happening in the world “, a possible reference to Lively’s legal battle against her Ends with us Posting and director Justin Baldoni. Kendrick interpreted COY in his response.
“Why? What happened? I did Ayahuasca and the last year of my life has disappeared, “he died before doing another favor. “But I feel the movie is amazing.”