"Another Simple Favor" Director Paul Feig Defended Blake Lively In A New Interview

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"It's conscionable frustrating for me."

If you're adjacent a TV this weekend, there's a beardown accidental you'll beryllium watching Another Simple Favor, the sequel to 2018's A Simple Favor that conscionable deed Amazon Prime Video.

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As a result, Another Simple Favor manager Paul Feig has had to support Blake against online trolls connected aggregate occasions. In January of this year, helium denied that the movie had been shelved; the pursuing month, Paul had to hop successful the comments conception to defend Blake against allegations that she had last chopped implicit the film.

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If that wasn't enough, successful March (yes, you're speechmaking this close — Paul had to support Blake crossed 3 consecutive months) helium had to respond again to rumors that Blake alienated Another Simple Favor co-star Anna Kendrick to the constituent wherever Anna doesn't privation to enactment with her anymore.

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In a caller interrogation with Esquire, Paul explained wherefore he's travel to Blake's defence truthful often — and, somewhat unsurprisingly, helium had thing but bully things to accidental astir her arsenic well.

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“Blake is an astonishing collaborator, truthful erstwhile I work people’s misconceptions astir however movies are made, it’s conscionable frustrating for me," helium said. “Every prima I’ve worked with works this way. The thought that a prima conscionable shows up and you spell ‘Here’s the script’ – delight constituent maine to 1 movie prima who works that way."

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"So erstwhile the pack connected the net get [up successful arms] astir something, it’s conscionable like, guys, you don’t cognize what you’re talking about. I emotion moving with Blake – she’s conscionable the best.”

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“Outrage is the astir boring emotion humans person these days," Paul added. "When it’s towards thing meaningful, that’s great. But radical get outraged astatine everything. It’s like, this is what you’re aggravated about? There’s different things to beryllium outraged astir – please, spell and assistance marque the satellite a amended place.”

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Can't disagree with that! You tin work the full interrogation with Blake close here.

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