It’s time to break out the real martinis: Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively will soon be back on screen together in A Simple Favor 2. Speaking with PEOPLE about her directorial debut Woman of the Hour, Kendrick, 39, teased the upcoming sequel to her 2018 hit, about widowed mother Stephanie (Kendrick) investigating the disappearance of her glamorous new friend Emily (Lively).
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00:00How did it feel to reunite with Blake after all those years?
00:02Had you kept in touch?
00:04Were you, or was it, you know, a fresh part?
00:07Well, she lives, I mean, she lives on the East Coast
00:09and I live on the West Coast,
00:10so we don't get to see each other often,
00:12but it was lovely.
00:14And, you know, I think that those characters
00:16have such, like, weird chemistry
00:21that it's so fun to just, like, get the gang back together.
00:26And it does feel a little bit like riding a bike,
00:30you know, because again, it's like one of those things
00:32where on paper you're like,
00:33this is absolutely nuts, like, what are we doing?
00:36And then, you know, suddenly, like,
00:38Paul is there in the three-piece suit
00:41and, you know, Blake's there.
00:42And even, like, the DP was back
00:44and it felt like, okay, we're doing this,
00:46like, very weird sort of risky,
00:52very twisty, plot-heavy movie.