Blake Lively‘s bitter feud with her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni has reportedly left the actress ‘shattered’, and while the last thing she wants in her life is more drama, it could certainly be on the way as she gears up to promote her next movie.
The mother-of-three is gearing up for a reunion with co-star Anna Kendrick amid rumours they ‘hate each other’, after starring together in A Simple Favor.
All eyes have turned to Blake and Anna’s relationship with the actresses set to kick off promoting the sequel, Another Simple Favor, ahead of the premiere on March 7.
After her seemingly tone deaf promotion threatened to overshadow It Ends with Us and the resultant feud with Justin Baldoni, Blake has reportedly been given a private coach to ‘school her’ in a bid to prevent the fallout from negatively impacting her upcoming film.
Now fans have been revisiting interviews from 2018 when the stars were promoting the black comedy, and are convinced that the tension was palpable as they made sarcastic jokes and comments about one another.
And while Blake’s BFF Taylor Swift is said to be distancing herself from the actress after being mentioned in Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit, she may be none to pleased to find out that she’s being cited as the root of this alleged feud too.
Blake Lively faces fresh drama with Another Simple Favor co-star Anna Kendrick amid rumours they ‘hate each other’ (pictured together in 2018)
During the first film’s press tour, tension between the actresses was palpable in interviews as they made sarcastic jokes and comments about one another
In an interview, which has garnered attention on social media in recent weeks, Anna seemed to mock Blake for not being as talented as she is.
She said: ‘I met [Blake] a few times through Ryan [Reynolds] on that film [The Voices] and you know, I thought she [Blake] seemed nice, but little did I know.’
While it all seems like a joke, Anna then snapped at Blake, ‘Don’t touch me’.
Following Anna’s sarcastic comments, the atmosphere between the duo quickly went cold as Blake brushed off her jokes with an awkward grin.
Anna also made comments about jealousy as Blake insisted she would ‘never be able to be a Disney Princess without Anna’s voice’.
In a mocking tone, Anna said: ‘Oh muffin, it’s so hard being you!’
All eyes have turned to Blake and Anna’s relationship as they gear up for another press tour together, in the wake of her and Justin Baldoni’s dueling lawsuits (pictured in A Simple Favour)
After her seemingly tone deaf promotion threatened to overshadow It Ends with Us, Blake has been given a private coach to ‘school her’ in a bid to prevent the fallout from negatively impacting her upcoming film
The actresses will kick off promoting their movie, the sequel to A Simple Favor, at the premiere on March 7
n one interview, which has garnered attention on social media in recent weeks, Anna seemingly cements their feud
Blake took a swipe at the interviewer later in the clip and appeared furious that he was directing the questions towards Anna and not her.
She fumed: ‘What about me over here?’
‘Oh my god, guys don’t fight just because I’m the best at everything,’ Anna quipped.
From the start of filming their 2018 thriller A Simple Favor Blake and Anna were at the center of feud rumours.
According to In Touch, tension between the women stemmed from Anna making fun of the Green Lantern star’s best friend, Taylor Swift.
Back in 2016, Anna told Net-A-Porter’s The Edit that she would ‘be terrible at being like Taylor, the perfect Miss American version of interacting with fans and making sure they have a good experience.’
Blake sued Justin for sexual harassment in December after starring in It Ends with Us together. He fired back with a scathing counter suit (pictured)
The Pitch Perfect actress noted that her fans know to expect her ‘dry and cynical’ sense of humour and how ‘snarky’ she is with people.
‘That’s just how I communicate,’ Anna insisted.
The Celebrity Memoir Book Club podcast, run by New York City comedians, Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton, claimed that the two women ‘were not speaking’ by the time shooting wrapped on their movie.
The allegation came from an insider that claimed to work at the film’s studio.
‘They HATED each other. The studio even had to have a talk with them about making it look like they liked each other on press tours because it was starting to get obvious,’ the insider alleged.
The source claimed that ‘Anna in particular was really competitive with Blake and was constantly asking to make sure she got more promotion than Blake and even made us PHOTOSHOP HER CLEAVAGE in The Simple Favor poster to be as big (or bigger) than Blake’s.’
Neither Anna nor Blake has ever commented on any animosity between them, but their costar, Henry Golding, denied the rumours.
‘Definitely no friction that I noticed,’ he insisted while appearing on Watch What Happens Live.
In 2022, it was announced that the pair would reunite to film A Simple Favor 2.
Earlier this week, director Paul Feig omitted Lively from an Instagram post promoting the movie.
He tagged 12 other collaborators on the film – but not Lively, whose name is listed first in the credits.
The collaborators included Anna Kendrick, Henry Golding, Allison Janney, Elizabeth Perkins, Michele Morrone, Alex Newell, Taylor Ortega, Andrew Rannells, Elena Sofia Ricci and Holmes, as well as the film’s studio, Amazon Prime.
The omission stood in contrast to a post that came from Prime Video which did have Lively tagged, attracting a number of comments critical of the actress amid allegations Baldoni made in court filings over the film.
Blake sued Justin for sexual harassment in December. At the same time, the New York Times released a story based on her legal filing that accused him of orchestrating a smear campaign against her.
Justin hit back by suing the Times for defamation before launching a $400 million lawsuit against Blake and her husband Ryan Reynolds earlier this month in which he accused the Hollywood pairing of conspiring to trash his reputation with the allegations.
He also accused Blake of hijacking the filming of the movie, which he directed, and claimed she forced him and his family to wait in a basement holding area at the premiere so she did not have to see him.
Both parties and the New York Times have denied the claims levelled against them
