The most dangerously chic frenemies in cinema are back—with Italian wedding vows and vicious mind games.
The trailer for A Simple Favor 2 (dropping May 1 on Prime Video) reunites Blake Lively’s freshly paroled Emily Nelson and Anna Kendrick’s suspicious mommy blogger Stephanie Smothers for a Capri-set sequel dripping with betrayal.
Fresh from prison after Kendrick’s character helped incarcerate her, Lively’s razor-tongued Emily shocks Stephanie by requesting her as maid of honor for a lavish wedding to Michele Morrone’s mysterious Italian tycoon. “You think I want to make you pay for stealing my life?”
Emily purrs in the clip, jet-setting to Europe with her former foe-turned-reluctant ally. Kendrick’s Stephanie—now a fledgling detective—voices suspicions about the groom and opulent guest list: “I gotta figure out what she’s up to.”
Director Paul Feig doubles down on the 2018 original’s ($97M-grossing) cocktail of Hitchcockian twists and camp luxury, adding Henry Golding, Allison Janney, and Andrew Rannells to the deadly festivities.
The sequel’s SXSW 2025 premiere comes as Lively navigates real-life legal drama with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni—proving life sometimes imitates art’s messy theatrics.
