Hollywood stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick have been pictured together in London two months after it was reported that the pair had found themselves in the midst of a bitter feud. It Ends With Us star Blake, 37, beamed alongside Pitch Perfect actress Anna, 39, at the photocall for Another Simple Favour at the Corinthia Hotel London on Tuesday – as the pair showed no signs of animosity.
Mum-of-three Blake, who has been involved in a bitter legal battle with her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni, was all smiles as she posed next to Anna on the rooftop of the luxury London hotel.
The Gossip Girl star, who is married to Ryan Reynolds, looked chic in black cardigan adorned with statement gold buttons. She paired the piece with a black mini skirt and matching knee-high boots.
Blake styled her blonde locks in a mini beehive and wore a full-face of bronzed makeup. Meanwhile, her fellow actress Anna oozed glamour in a plunge red mini dress as she braved the chilly London temperatures. While Blake beamed for the cameras, Anna appeared more solemn as she stood next to Blake who has found herself at the centre of controversy in recent months.
The pair are currently promoting their new movie which sees Anna play a timid single mother and Blake play a bold schemer. The pair reunite seven years after A Simple Favor and the frenemies head off to Capri for a glitzy wedding, which gets interrupted by random murders and wild double-crosses.
While their silver screen characters have proved that they are not fond of one another, there is one burning question fans of Blake and Anna want to know – do they really hate each other in real life?
The centre of the feud rumours lies in 2018 press interviews where Anna seems to mock Blake for not being as talented as she is. When Blake took an MTV News interviewer to task for focussing on Anna, she said: “Oh my god, guys don’t fight just because I’m the best at everything”.
“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,” added the Twilight actress, before jokingly snapping: “Don’t touch me”.
In the awkward interview, the atmosphere between them seems to then go cold as Blake brushed off her co-star’s jokes with an awkward grin. Blake insisted she would “never be able to be a Disney Princess without Anna’s voice”, leading Anna to sarcastically retort back: “Oh muffin, it’s so hard being you.”
Feud rumours also heated up when Anna managed to take a potential swipe at Blake’s bestie Taylor Swift in the same interview, saying she would be “be terrible at being like Taylor, the perfect Miss Americana version of interacting with fans and making sure they have a good experience”.
Respected podcast The Celebrity Memoir Book Club, run by New York City comedians, Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton, fuelled the fire by claiming to have insider knowledge that the two women “were not speaking” by the time shooting wrapped on their movie. “They HATED each other,” they said, citing a studio insider as their source.
“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.”
“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,” added the podcast hosts.
Blake and Anna never commented on the alleged animosity but their co-star in the film, Henry Golding, insisted to Watch What Happens Live there was “definitely no friction that I noticed”.
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