Blake Lively is celebrating her newest project.
The actress, 37, stepped out in New York City on Sunday, April 27, for the premiere of her movie Another Simple Favor, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Lively was joined by director Paul Feig and costar Anna Kendrick on the red carpet to mark the upcoming release of their sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor.
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Lively gave off Grecian goddess vibes in a pale mint-colored draped gown featuring intricate geometric cutouts on the bodice. She accessorized with statement earrings and a series of colorful rings and bracelets, and wore her hair down, styled in soft waves.
Lively was also joined by her husband, Ryan Reynolds, who looked dapper in gray plaid suit. The couple smiled and posed for photos together as Lively, at one point, rested her hand on the Deadpool & Wolverine star’s chest.
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Lively’s attendance at Sunday night’s premiere comes amid her ongoing legal battle with her It Ends with Us director and costar Justin Baldoni, which kicked off in December 2024 as she sued him, alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign. Wayfarer Studios, Baldoni’s production company, was among others named in the suit.
Baldoni, 41, denied the allegations and countersued Lively and Reynolds, as well as the couple’s publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR, Inc., for $400 million, alleging defamation, civil extortion and more. A trial date set has been scheduled for March 2026.
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Lively was recently honored as one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people for 2025 at the TIME100 Gala on Thursday, April 24, where she gave a speech that briefly (though not directly) alluded to her legal battle with Baldoni.
“I have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum,” the Gossip Girl alum addressed the crowd, in part. “What I will speak to separately is the feeling of being a woman who has a voice, today and since I could speak, because of the pain, caution and fight of the many women who have paved the way and the men who stood beside them — millions I will never know the name of — because every life, every act, big or small, affects another.”
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Speaking with PEOPLE the following morning about supporting Lively at the gala, Reynolds, 48, said he was “incredibly in awe of my wife in many ways.”
“I don’t know that I’ve met somebody stronger,” the Deadpool & Wolverine actor added, during a “More to Parkinson’s” Panel with Acadia Pharmaceuticals at GH on the Park in N.Y.C.
“And her coping mechanisms are just coffee,” he joked, “which is amazing to me because I don’t know how I could hold what she holds and do it with [her] grace and strength. It’s pretty profound.”
Always up for a self-deprecating quip, Reynolds added of praise that he is a supportive spouse to Lively, “Let’s not rush to judgment before all the facts are in.”
