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A Simple Favor 2 Director Paul Feig Defends Blake Lively Amid Legal Battle: ‘I’m Her Biggest Fan’

A straightforward favor director Paul Feig is once again standing up for his star Blake Lively, who is currently involved in a legal dispute with Jason Baldoni, her costar and director from It Ends With Us.

The sequel to A Simple Favor, now called Another Simple Favor, will make its world premiere on March 7 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, the festival’s organizers announced on Tuesday, February 4. Following the announcement on Instagram, a person inquired as to whether the movie was “Paul Feig’s cut or Blake’s cut.”

“It’s my cut,” Feig, 62, answered. “No other cut exists. Blake has been a pleasure to work with and has been nothing but encouraging. I’m her biggest admirer, and she is the greatest and most incredible partner. I just wanted to make that obvious.

The Instagram user’s query alluded to reports and conjecture that two cuts of It Ends With Us were produced, one supervised by 40-year-old filmmaker Baldoni and the other commissioned by 37-year-old Lively. The accusation was made by Baldoni in a lawsuit filed on December 31 against the New York Times for its coverage of Lively’s complaint from December 20, in which she charged Baldoni and his friends with sexual harassment and a campaign of retaliatory smears.

On December 21, Lively formally sued Baldoni and the movie’s producers.

On January 16, Baldoni filed a $400 million countersuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane, and Sloane’s public relations agency Vision PR, Inc. That action was described by her attorneys as “desperate” and “meritless.” Hearings in both cases will start in March 2026.

As the legal drama develops, Feig has repeatedly shown his support for Lively over the last two months. The director posted a link to the Times article on Lively’s Dec. 20 filing at the end of December.

“After working on two films together, I can honestly say that Blake is among the most professional, imaginative, cooperative, gifted, and compassionate individuals I have ever encountered,” Feig wrote on X. She genuinely didn’t deserve to be the target of this campaign of defamation. I believe it’s terrible that she had to go through this.

He also denied reports that Another Simple Favor was being delayed last month. “This is complete bullshit. “I apologize,” Feig wrote on X. “The film is complete and will be released shortly. These days, don’t trust everything you read on social media.

Lively is reunited with her co-stars from A Simple Favor, Anna Kendrick and Henry Golding, in Another Simple Favor. The original 2018 picture, which was based on the same-titled novel by Darcey Bell, is the highest-grossing film in Lively’s career. A murder takes place at Emily’s (Lively) wedding in Capri, Italy, where the action shifts in the sequel.

On May 1, you may watch Another Simple Favor on Prime Video.

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