A Simple Favor 2Director Paul Feig Comes to Blake Lively's Defense Again amid Legal Battle: 'I'm Her Biggest Fan'

Mar. 15, 2025

Blake Lively (left) and Paul Feig in 2018.Photo:Gregory Pace/Shutterstock

Gregory Pace/Shutterstock

A Simple Favordirector Paul Feig is once again defending his star,Blake Lively, who is in the midst of alegal battlewith herIt Ends With Usdirector and costarJason Baldoni.

“It’s my cut,” Feig, 62, replied. “There is no other cut. Blake has been nothing but supportive and a dream to work with. She is the best and an amazing collaborator and I’m her biggest fan. Just wanted to clear that up.”

Paul Feig’s response on Instagram.

The Instagram user’s question was a reference torumors and speculation that two cutsofIt Ends With Uswere made, one director Baldoni, 40, oversaw and one Lively, 37, edited. Baldoni made the allegation in aDec. 31 lawsuit against theNew York Timesover its reporting ofLively’s Dec. 20 complaint, in which she accused Baldoni and his associates ofsexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign.

Lively formally filed a lawsuit against Baldoni and the film’s producers on December 21.

Baldoni filed a countersuit against Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR, Inc for$400 million on Jan. 16. Her lawyerscalled that lawsuit"desperate" and “meritless.” Both cases will be heardbeginning in March 2026.

Blake Lively in ‘A Simple Favor’.Peter Iovino/Lionsgate

Peter Iovino/Lionsgate

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Feig has spoken out in support of Lively multiple times in the past two months as the legal drama unfolds. In late December,the filmmaker shared a link to theTimesreport on Lively’s Dec. 20 filing.

“I’ve now made two movies with Blake and all I can say is she’s one of the most professional, creative, collaborative, talented and kind people I’ve ever worked with,” Feig wrote on X. “She truly did not deserve any of this smear campaign against her. I think it’s awful she was put through this.”

Last month, he alsoshot down rumors thatAnother Simple Favorwas being postponed. “This is total BS. Sorry,” Feig wrote on X. “The movie is finished and coming out soon. Don’t believe anything you read on social media these days.”

Another Simple Favorreunites Lively with her otherA Simple Favorcostars, including Anna Kendrick and Henry Golding. The original 2018 film is the highest-grossing movie of Lively’s career and was based on Darcey Bell’s novel of the same name. In the sequel, the action moves to Capri, Italy, where a murder occurs during Emily’s (Lively) wedding.

Another Simple Favorwill be available to stream on Prime Video on May 1.

source: people.com