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Anna Kendrick gives awkward response after being asked about co-star Blake Lively's ongoing legal battle

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Published 10:35 8 Mar 2025 GMT

Anna Kendrick gives awkward response after being asked about co-star Blake Lively's ongoing legal battle

The actors reunited for the premiere of their new film yesterday

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Just when you might have thought it finally 'ended with them', Anna Kendrick’s being pulled into it.

Well, she’s not quite holding on to rope as it’s dangled in her face.

The star gave an awkward response after she was asked about her co-star, Blake Lively’s, ongoing legal battle.

In case you’ve somehow avoided it all, Lively is currently involved in lawsuits with Justin Baldoni following their movie last summer, It Ends With Us.

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And the drama seems to be trying to follow her into the press for her latest film, Another Simple Favour.

Lively in Another Simple Favor. (Prime Video)
Lively in Another Simple Favor. (Prime Video)

Premiering yesterday (7 March), the movie is a sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favour, again directed by Paul Feig with Kendrick and Lively starring as the leads.

But there’s no denying a lot of the promo has been shadowed by the legal drama.

So, on the red carpet at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival, a Variety reporter asked Kendrick: “How does it feel like the movie is being impacted kind of by everything happening around going on in the world?”

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And the Pitch Perfect star gave a somewhat shady response.

“Why what happened?” Kendrick said. “I did Ayahuasca and the last year of my life has just gone.”

She then turned it back to the reason she’s there, adding: “But I’ve heard the movie’s amazing.”


The star then hurried off while blowing a kiss to the reporter.

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Users on X said Kendrick ‘couldn’t have answered this better’ as they said she’s got the ‘face of someone who is absolutely done with vague questions’.

“Oscar winning evasion!” one joked as another added: “Anna Kendrick mastering the art of saying a lot without saying anything at all.”

“Very pro move, this is why Anna will be around, forever,” a third said.

There had previously been rumours that the publicised drama between Baldoni and Lively was impacting the release of Another Simple Favour.

But Fieg shut this down as he wrote on X in January: “This is total BS. Sorry.

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“The movie is finished and coming out soon. Don’t believe anything you read on social media these days.”

Kendrick stars in the sequel with Lively. (Prime Video)
Kendrick stars in the sequel with Lively. (Prime Video)

Lively’s team filed a lawsuit against Baldoni in December, accusing him of sexual harassment and attempting to launch a smear campaign against her.

His team then filed on his behalf in January, claiming defamation against her and husband, Ryan Reynolds. Baldoni's attorney claims Lively and her team took certain measures to gain control over their movie.

His team calls her claims ‘categorically false’, while Lively’s say his lawsuit is ‘another chapter in the abuser playbook’.

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Another Simple Favour lands on Prime Video on 1 May.

Featured Image Credit: Mat Hayward/WireImage

Topics: Blake Lively, Celebrity, TV and Film, US News

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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