Blake Lively Has a New Movie. Promoting It Is a Minefield.
When Blake Lively was promoting her 2018 film 'A Simple Favor,' she wore power suits to match her character, a dapper PR executive who disappears mysteriously. She was on TV around the clock, appearing on 'Good Morning America' and 'The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.' She palled around with her co-star Anna Kendrick in joint interviews and promoted her husband, Ryan Reynolds's, gin company, which appears several times in the martini-laden film.
Her promotion of the movie's coming sequel, 'Another Simple Favor,' has been quiet by comparison. If this is the first time you're hearing about the film, you'd be forgiven.
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