Ryan Reynolds has trolled Blake Lively on Twitter many times, but his latest stunt might be his funniest yet. It’s certainly his spookiest.
Here’s what happened: On Thursday (November 1), the New York Post tweeted a link to one of its stories about a woman who says she’s had sex with 20 ghosts and claims she’s now engaged to a spirit. It didn’t take long for the Internet to see the physical resemblances between this woman and Lively, and that’s when Reynolds jumped in with his trolling.
“THIS is how I find out?” Reynolds tweeted, pretending that the women in the story was actually Lively.
More people hopped on this bandwagon, too. One Twitter user nicknamed this woman “Blake Deadly” while others were in agreement she looks very similar to the A Simple Favor star. “I thought I was the only one who though she looked like Blake Lively Reynolds lol i guess you do too,” a Twitter user commented. “This woman looks like his wife blake lively,” wrote another.
Reynolds made a similar joke to this over the summer when he cheekily responded to Lively after she called her A Simple Favor co-star Anna Kendrick the “hotter, female(r)” version of him . Lively asked if it would “count as cheating” if she and Kendrick got together, to which he said, “The most ambitious crossover event in history. I’ll miss you both. Tell my story.”
In the September 2017 issue of Glamour, Lively raved about her husband’s social media humor. “I’m so in love with him when he writes that stuff. I mean, I’m in love with him most of the time, but especially with that,” she said.
In honor of Reynolds’s birthday, on Tuesday (October 23), Lively posted a photo to her feed of her and Reynolds sending in their own ballots ahead of the November 6 midterm elections. “Happy Birthday to 2018’s Sexiest Voter Alive @vancityreynolds #justvoted ??#absenteeballot party!” she captioned the shot, which showed the lovebirds standing in front of a bunch of multicolored balloons. The A Simple Favor star also posted a photo to her Story of the two of them in their “birthday voting limelight,” and asked her followers whether they’d be voting absentee or in person this season.
Reynolds posted a similar shot to his own feed, writing, “What a birthday! I just smoked a huge bowl of early voting.”
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Reynolds and Lively aren’t the only A-listers commemorating big milestones by getting out the vote. On Monday night, Amy Schumer directed her followers to journalist Jessica Yellin’s page, where she shared her voting recommendations alongside the news that she’s expecting her first child. And in recent weeks, Taylor Swift has become more politically active than ever on social media, first by sharing her support of Tennessee Democrats Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper, and then by posting countless photos to her Story celebrating her fans who have opted to vote early. Considering Swift’s first post reportedly may have contributed to a 65,000-person increase in voter registration after just 24 hours, clearly, these types of posts really can make an impact.
You know you love this news, XOXO. Blake Lively is currently in the process of developing a scripted television series for Amazon that would revolve around the good, the bad, and the ugly of the modern fashion industry. Remind you of a certain fashionable CW drama, Upper East Siders?
The Hollywood Reporterreports that Lively will be closely working alongside with the streaming service for the untitled show. However, one (admittedly very cool) way that it will differ from Lively’s famed Gossip Girl turn is that this series will reportedly also have a strong “merchandising component” alongside it. (Translation: It’s possible that some of the outfits featured on the show can be highlighted and identified for purchase on Amazon’s website.) Amazon is being cagey about what exactly the “culturally relevant” show will entail, but Lively will reportedly only be producing, as opposed to starring.
“I told business affairs I’m going to do this. [Lively] is in Rome, asleep. She’ll wake up to it,” Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke explained when making the surprise announcement at this year’s Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. “She’s a force of nature: ambitious, smart, and talented.” Salke compared Lively to someone like Nicole Kidman, who has effortlessly transcended her “actor” title to an astute and in-demand producer.
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Lively with Leighton Meester on the set of ‘Gossip Girl’
Lively has been blossoming as a producer for over a year now, starting when she signed on to produce the film adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret. (Moriarty wrote Big Little Lies, if you recall.)
As she explained to Glamour last year, getting more woman producers for projects catering to women is one way to help achieve parity in the entertainment industry. “Nobody’s going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself,” she said. “That said, I know a lot of great men—directors, producers, studio heads—looking to tell stories about women, some because they’re drawn to those stories, some because they’re husbands or fathers and want to see the women in their life represented more accurately, and some just because they look at the numbers. They see, ‘Wonder Woman has replaced religion in America. We should probably invest in female summer movies.'”
Here’s hoping this Amazon project will help achieve that, but for television.
After spending the last two months convincing us to add suits to our fall wardrobes, Blake Lively has gone and ditched her new signature look for—wait for it—a skirt.
Lively was photographed leaving the Christian Dior offices in Paris this week wearing a printed A-line skirt designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri, an act that would have been fairly uneventful in months past. Blake Lively, a celebrity known for her heightened sense of style, wears a designer’s look…to that designer’s offices? OK!
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Now, though, this skirt is considered so newsworthy that it caused a flurry of headlines and tweets in its wake. “Blake Lively Wears a Skirt for the First Time in Months!” the Page Six declared. It’s “a big deal for fans of her fashion,” People magazine noted.
To be fair, this is the first time Lively has been seen publicly wearing something other than a suit in months. It’s a testament to her commitment toward A Simple Favor, her new movie with Anna Kendrick in which her character wears almost exclusively suits. So, throughout the film’s press tour, Lively has shown up on red carpets in all sorts of different takes on the style—velvet suits! neon suits! plaid suits! I guess now that A Simple Favor is officially in theaters, Lively can mix up her look a little more?
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But even though her seemingly endless supply of suits is maybe-probably about promoting her movie, Lively was still quick to call out those who criticized her for them. After an Instagram commenter made a joke about “suit number 1,356,” Lively responded, “Would you note a man wearing lots of suits during a promo tour? So why can’t a woman? Just sayinnnn. No double standard ladies.” The commenter apologized, and Lively replied, “Nothing but love. I don’t expect everyone to like it. Fashion that creates a difference of opinions is the fun part. I totally understand the missed humor. I do the same thing sometimes. Just lookin’ to encourage woman to do what men do without being teased for it. Yes, even in a space as material as fashion. It all starts somewhere…and everyone’s voice counts.”
And if you think Lively is totally done with suits now that she’s added a skirt into the mix, hold up: The same day she wore the Dior skirt, she was back to business as usual:
Caution: This post contains major spoilers for A Simple Favor. Seriously, do not continue if you don’t want the ending spoiled!
It’s impossible to overstate how perfectly cast Blake Lively is as Emily, the mysterious, gin-martini-swilling PR exec in A Simple Favor (in theaters now). She delivers her lines—most of which are delightfully over-the-top—with ease and authority, and walks with a cane as if the sheer weight of her swagger might pull her down otherwise.
The movie begins with Emily befriending mommy vlogger Stephanie (played by the pitch perfect, pun intended, Anna Kendrick). They drink together and share secrets, have play dates and drink some more. But then Emily suddenly disappears—and Stephanie is left to figure out what really happened to her new BFF. Did Emily’s husband (the handsome Henry Golding) kill his wife for her $4 million life insurance policy? Or is Emily, in fact, still alive? Whatever the case, Emily is not exactly your typical suburban mom.
Here, 17 of the wildest things she says and does over the course of the movie.
1. “I let you tear my labia as you exited my body.” Emily says this to her son, Nicky, when she picks him up from school and he complains that she never lets him do anything fun. He’s in first grade.
2. She has a giant painting of her vagina hanging in her living room. It’s technically more of a full-body portrait, but because it’s painted from the perspective of someone looking up from Emily’s thighs, her vagina appears disproportionately large. Every art collection needs a conversation piece, right?
3. She wears a dickey. Emily’s style is a significant part of her allure, so when she casually removes her collared shirt as if it’s a clip-on tie, it begs the question: Are false shirt-fronts the new lingerie?
4. She strolls through the park in a tuxedo. Paired with magenta gloves. As you do.
5. And wears a tie with no shirt. Because who needs a collar when you can complete your look with side-boob and a cane?
6. “Erase it or I slap a fucking injunction on your yearbook.” This is how Emily responds when Stephanie takes a candid picture of her. (Remember those words next time your friend posts an unflattering pic of you on Insta.)
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7. “Prudes are people too.” She’s not wrong.
8. She claims to have had a threesome with her husband, Sean, a novelist turned professor, and his T.A. Stephanie drunkenly one-ups her by admitting she had sex with her half-brother after meeting him at their father’s funeral. This earns her the nickname “brother fucker,” which Emily says not once, not twice, but four times.
9. She shamelessly admits to Sean that she stole his mother’s most valuable and sentimental ring. Her confession is seen in a flashback that ends with Sean and her conceiving Nicky in an airplane bathroom.
10. She fakes her death for a $4 million life insurance settlement. Here’s where things get really bananas…
11. She lies about being a twin. Scratch that: She lies about being a triplet. She was raised as Hope McLendon along with her sister Faith, and they ate their triplet, Charity, in the womb.
12. They also killed their dad in fire. This is why they both have a flame tattoo on their wrist. It’s also why they’ve been estranged for 14 years.
13. She drowns her sister. After seeing a pic of Emily (a.k.a. Hope) on Facebook, Faith asks her sister to meet at their old camp in Michigan and attempts to extort her for a million dollars. (This is why Emily doesn’t let anyone take her photo.) Instead, Emily drowns Faith, who is now a heroin addict, and decides to fake her own death for the aforementioned insurance policy.
14. She throws a wrench in the air and lets it fall on her face. Once she knows Stephanie has figured out the truth—Stephanie has been giving her hints via her vlog—Emily decides to frame Sean as an abuser. At this point, Emily thinks she’s gotten Stephanie on her side by pitting her against Sean. (Oh yeah: Stephanie and Sean had moved in together when they still thought Emily was dead.)
15. “That’s how you grieve? Balls deep in my best friend?” Emily says this to Sean. She was not happy to see him move on with Stephanie.
16. Emily shoots Sean. Stephanie shows up to Sean’s house with a gun, pretending to have snapped so that Emily might confess the whole truth—only Emily had, in fact, cut their planted microphones. But double (triple? quadruple?) twist: Stephanie was wearing a tiny nanny cam on her button the whole time, and she live-streamed the confrontation on her vlog.
17. Emily tries to shoot Stephanie. Figuring she was about to go to jail anyway, she aims to shoot Stephanie—only to get mowed down by another parent (Andrew Rannells) at their kids’ school. “You fuck with one of the moms,” he says. “You fuck with all of us.”
When Blake Lively has a project to promote, she does so with impeccable style. She’s been known to plan multiple outfit changes for a single day, dress according to theme, and go for extravagance with her fashion—all of which is her own doing, because she doesn’t employ a stylist. Such is the case for her latest press tour, for A Simple Favor. This time around, though, Lively is zeroing in on a specific silhouette: the suit.
Over the past few weeks, Lively has been photographed in velvet suits, neon suits, couture suits, among others. The styling choice is likely a nod to her A Simple Favor character. (In the first trailer for the film, she’s seen wearing a polished suit.) Even if it’s a clever promotional tie-in, Lively makes a pretty strong case for investing in a new suit for fall. So whether you’re more of a polished or a patterned person, let her convince you that it’s worth the investment.
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