<p id=”par-1_72″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/blake-lively/?swcfpc=1″>Blake Lively</a> continues to make headlines following her and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/blake-lively-hit-another-lawsuit-it-ends-with-us-legal-drama.html/”>Justin Baldoni’s <em>It Ends With Us</em> lawsuits</a>. She appeared at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival to promote her new film, <em>Another Simple Favor</em>, with Anna Kendrick. Kendrick gave a pointed response when it came to working with Lively on the movie. While Kendrick’s words ignited rumors of a feud between the two actors, the film’s director is dispelling the unverified claims.</p>
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<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Anna-Kendrick-Blake-Lively-1.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Blake Lively with her arm around Anna Kendrick at ‘A Simple Favor’ premiere in 2018″ class=”wp-image-3786743″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively at the premiere of ‘A Simple Favor’ in 2018 | Dave J Hogan/Dave J Hogan/Getty Images for Lionsgate</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-2_53″>Negative media coverage continues to follow <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-trial-date-set-it-ends-with-us-legal-battle.html/”>Blake Lively as her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni</a> progresses. She and <em>Another Simple Favor</em> <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-voices-why-anna-kendrick-said-ryan-reynolds-and-blake-lively-are-sinfully-good-together.html/”>co-star, Anna Kendrick</a>, promoted the film at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival on March 7, 2025. Kendrick dodged questions regarding Lively and how the actor’s lawsuits are impacting <em>Another Simple Favor.</em></p>
<p id=”par-3_26″>“How does it feel like the movie is being impacted kind of by everything happening around going on in the world?” a <a href=”https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG6mQUiy2jA/?igsh=ZzkzdzRwMTByazhl” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Variety</a> reporter asked Kendrick.</p>
<p id=”par-4_29″>“Why, what happened?” Kendrick replied. “I did ayahuasca and the last year of my life is just gone, but I’ve heard the movie’s amazing,” she continued before walking off.</p>
<p id=”par-5_18″>In another interview, a reporter asked Kendrick, “What does it mean to be working with Blake Lively again?”</p>
<p id=”par-6_13″>Kendrick replied, “Oh, you know,” as she walked away, prompting feud speculation. </p>
<p id=”par-7_37″>However, Lively’s response to working with Kendrick shows the actors are on good terms. “Oh, it’s the best,” Lively said when asked how it felt to work with Kendrick again, a <a href=”https://www.tmz.com/2025/03/09/blake-lively-anna-kendrick-not-feuding/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>TMZ</a> clip shows. “I’m so happy.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_42″>Another Simple Favor director Paul Feig stepped in to stop the feud rumors. YouTuber Melanie King alleged on X that Kendrick never wanted to work with Lively following the <em>It Ends With Us</em> drama. To that, Feig wrote, “Um … you’re wrong.”</p>
<p id=”par-9_64″>Feig elaborated on his “great experience” working with the actors on <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/anna-kendrick-once-confessed-she-didnt-fully-understand-a-simple-favor-until-she-watched-it.html/”>the first film, <em>A Simple Favor</em></a>. He couldn’t wait to continue with the sequel. “I mean, I had such a great experience on the first one. It always kind of stuck with me. God, I love working with the two of them, as well as the rest of the cast,” he told <a href=”https://people.com/anna-kendrick-sidesteps-question-about-a-simple-favor-2-costar-blake-lively-legal-drama-11693465″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-10_75″>In October 2024, Kendrick told <a href=”https://people.com/anna-kendrick-reuniting-blake-lively-simple-favor-2-exclusive-8726820″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a> that it’s “so fun” working with Lively again. “She lives on the East Coast, I live on the West Coast, so we don’t get to see each other often,” Kendrick said of Lively. “But it was lovely, and I think that those characters have such weird chemistry that it’s so fun to just get the gang back together. And it does feel a little bit like riding a bike.”</p>
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