Paul Feig is shutting down rumors that Blake Energetic and Anna Kendrick had been uncomfortable whereas selling One other Easy Favor at SXSW this week.
The director — who attended premiere occasions alongside the film’s forged in Austin, Texas, on Friday, March 7 — addressed hypothesis of a latest rift between the pair, who beforehand teamed up with Feig, 62, for A Easy Favor.
After YouTuber Melanie King shared a photograph on X of the 2 actresses on Saturday, March 8, alleging that Energetic, 37, was “terrified to stroll the carpet” and Kendrick, 39, “by no means needs to work with [Lively] once more,” Feig shut down her claims a day later.
“Um … you’re incorrect,” wrote Feig, who attended an One other Easy Favor Q&A with Energetic, Kendrick and different members of the forged on the Paramount Theatre through the 2025 SXSW Movie & TV Pageant.
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Energetic and Kendrick each touched on working collectively once more through the SXSW premiere, when Energetic known as reuniting together with her costar “one of the best,” as Kendrick shared a fast, “Oh, you realize,” whereas each actresses had been busy greeting followers.
Later within the day, during the Q&A — which additionally featured Feig, Henry Golding and others — Energetic and Kendrick laughed alongside one another, had facet conversations and shared some perception into the filming course of.
One other Easy Favor, the sequel to Feig’s in style 2018 comedy thriller, follows Kendrick’s character Stephanie and Energetic’s character Emily as they “head to the gorgeous island of Capri, Italy, for Emily’s extravagant wedding ceremony to a wealthy Italian businessman,” per a synopsis.
In the course of the SXSW premiere, the duo mentioned their connection to their respective characters and Feig’s “curveball thought” of capturing in Italy. Kendrick beforehand informed PEOPLE in October that reuniting with Energetic on set was “pretty.”
“She lives on the East Coast, I stay on the West Coast, so we do not get to see one another typically,” Kendrick stated on the time. “However it was pretty, and I feel that these characters have such bizarre chemistry that it is so enjoyable to simply get the gang again collectively. And it does really feel just a little bit like driving a motorbike.”
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The film’s SXSW displaying marked Energetic’s first premiere since her authorized battle together with her It Ends with Us director/costar Justin Baldoni started — in addition to one of many few public appearances she’s made since.
She and husband Ryan Reynolds made an look final month on the SNL50: The Anniversary Particular.
A supply informed PEOPLE earlier this 12 months that there “actually is not any drama or rift” between Kendrick and Energetic.
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As for Feig, the director informed PEOPLE on the SXSW purple carpet that working with the movie’s two stars and the remainder of the forged once more was “a dream come true.”
“It was an excessive amount of enjoyable. An excessive amount of enjoyable,” Feig stated. “I imply, I had such an ideal expertise on the primary one. It all the time form of caught with me, like, ‘God, I like working with the 2 of them’ — in addition to the remainder of the forged.”
“So, you realize, arising with this [sequel] similar to, ‘We gotta get one thing that offers them each one thing nice and new to try this can embrace the previous forged however herald a bunch of recent characters,’ ” he added. “And I all the time needed to shoot one thing in Capri, so it was a dream come true to get to determine that one out.”
One other Easy Favor begins streaming on Prime Video on Might 1.
