Lively began filming A Simple Favor 2 shortly after she wrapped It Ends With Us, the dark romance adapted from Colleen Hoover’s bestselling book. In the film, she played opposite Baldoni, whose character Ryle Kincaid was physically abusive to her character Lily Bloom.

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