Everything Blake Lively’s costars said about working with her

Blake Lively has been in the industry for two decades and has been making headlines on and off the screen.

She rose to fame playing Bridget in the play Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants franchise opposite America Ferrera (Carmen), Alexis Bledel (Lena) a Amber Tamblyn (Tibby). Since the first film in 2005, the foursome have remained close.

“When you’re that close, you can sit down with someone and immediately jump into the deepest conversations, which are the only types of relationships I love,” Tamblyn exclusively speaking My Weekly in February 2019, saying that they often have meetings with their children.

“(They’re) filled with lots of delicious cream-filled donuts and … catching up on the time since we’ve been gone,” Tamblyn gushed at the time. “I think that’s the way to go. all girlfriends are.”

Tamblyn, Bledel and Ferrera also had Lively’s back in December 2024 when Gossip Girl alum sued her It ends with us director, Justin Baldonifor sexual harassment. (Baldoni denied the claim.)

Keep scrolling to see what Lively’s co-stars had to say about working alongside her over the years:

Justin Baldoni

Baldoni played Ryle Kincaid, the abusive husband of Lively’s Lily Bloom in 2024. It ends with us.

“Blake was. involved in all aspects of the film once she entered the project, from the scenes and the dialogues to the end, to now,” Baldoni said Entertainment Weekly in August 2024. “She was a part of it all and was a driving force of creativity and a great collaborator.”

However, it turned out that there was a problem when they did not do any promos for the film together. Lively never publicly addressed the apparent feud with Baldoni until she named him in a sexual harassment lawsuit in December 2024. He denied the claims and later filed a $250 million lawsuit against him. The New York Times for defamation and false light invasion of privacy. Baldoni and his legal team claimed the newspaper had published a “malicious smear campaign entirely directed” by Lively’s camp.

Among several allegations in both legal filings, he claimed that Lively had a “a calculating and bold attempt to take control” from It ends with us including hiring her husband Ryan Reynolds‘ editor to make a new cut of the film. (Lally was an executive producer on the project.)

“She’s officially kicked me out of the movie now,” Baldoni he allegedly wrote in text messages to his team, he cited in court documents. “It completes everything. I can’t get involved. Music sound VFX everything. Somehow I can do it. Just feel it all.”

Meanwhile, Lively’s lawyer denied the claims in a statement: “This lawsuit is based on the patently incorrect premise that Ms. Lively’s administrative complaint against Wayfarer and others was a ruse based on the decision not to file a lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer and others.” that litigation was never her ultimate goal.’

America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants The stars have been talking about their lasting bond for a long time. Ferrera, Bledel and Tamblyn even released a statement of support amid Lively and Baldoni’s legal case.

“As Blake’s friends and sisters for over twenty years, we stand in solidarity with her as she fights the reported campaign to destroy her reputation,” they wrote in joint statement on Instagram in December 2024. “Throughout filming It ends with usWe saw her muster the courage to ask for a safe workplace for herself and colleagues on set, and we are appalled to read evidence of a premeditated and vindictive effort to discredit her voice.”

They concluded: “Most disturbing is the shameless exploitation of the stories of victims of domestic violence to silence a woman who asked for safety. The hypocrisy is staggering. It baffles us that even a woman as strong, celebrated and resourceful as our friend Blake can face violent retaliation for daring to ask for a safe work environment. We are inspired by our sister’s courage to stand up for herself and others.”

Jenny Slate

Slate played Allysa, Ryle’s sister and Lily’s best friend in the game It ends with us. She too stood in Lively’s corner in the middle of a lawsuit.

“As a teammate and friend of Blake Lively, I offer my support as she takes action against those who allegedly planned and carried out an attack on her reputation,” she said in a statement. Today in December 2024. “Blake is a leader, a loyal friend and a trusted source of emotional support to me and the many people who know and love her. What has been revealed about the attack on Blake is terribly dark, disturbing and downright terrifying. I praise my friend, I admire her bravery and I stand by her side.”

Anna Kendrick

Kendrick starred alongside Lively in two A simple kindness movies.

“It was great to have that partner-in-crime vibe with you guys,” Kendrick Lively said BuzzFeed interview from 2018. “Sometimes you work with someone and they’re great—they’re really, really great—and they just have a very different style of working, let’s say. You know, they’re the people you can’t come to in between and say, “Yeah, let me tell you what just happened.” So it was great.”

They reunited A simple kindness 2which was filmed in 2024.

“She lives on the East Coast, I live on the West Coast, so we don’t see each other very often,” Kendrick said. People that October “But it was beautiful and I think the characters have such a special chemistry that it’s so fun to get the gang back together. And it’s a bit like riding a bike.”

Penn Badgley

Badgley and Lively played an on-off couple on Gossip Girl over seven seasons on The CW. They too dated in real life.

“Apart from our relationship, I don’t think anyone has any public interest in me,” he said Variety in 2023. “To be honest, I’ve never struggled with substance. Blake didn’t drink and I think our relationship saved me in some ways from forcing myself to go down that path.’

While Badgley and Lively eventually broke up in 2010, their characters Dana and Serena got back together. They got married in the series finale.

“I certainly don’t think it was uncomfortable for anybody,” Badgley said during a September 2024 episode of his “Podcrushed” podcast. “I’m pretty sure we were exes for almost half the entire series. It’s been almost six years and I don’t think we’ve been together for more than two.’

Chase Crawford

Crawford, who played Nate Gossip Girlconfirmed Badgley’s remarks that he and Lively worked amicably after the split.

“Not at all. Not in the slightest,” he said during the 2019 performance on See what happens live with Andy Cohen when asked if there was any drama or bad blood. “The most advanced people in the world.”

Ben Affleck

Affleck and Lively portrayed a couple in 2010 City.

“You have a pretty straight head,” he told her Interview Magazine profile published in August. “You and I had to do a sex scene on the first day of filming and you were very composed and comfortable – more mature than some of the crew.”

Michele Morrone

Morrone plays Lively’s wife A simple kindness 2. He also expressed his experience working with her in light of the lawsuit against Baldoni.

“I usually don’t enjoy making videos like this, but I think it’s time to stand up for a person that I really love, and that person is Blake Lively,” he said December 2024 Instagram video. “I met Blake in person during A Simple Favor 2. We were making this incredible movie together and I felt something was wrong and I felt pain… We had a chance to talk, me and her, (and) Blake he was in pain.”

He added: “Blake, I love you so much.” Keep going and I’ll see you soon.”

Michelle Trachtenberg

During Lively’s Gossip Girl tenure, it was rumored that the actress and co-lead Leighton Meester were in conflict. Trachtenberg later denied the claim when speaking to him Vanity Fair in 2017.

“It’s funny because when we were shooting it was, ‘Leighton hates Blake, Blake hates Leighton, everybody hates Blake, everybody hates Leighton, everybody hates Chace,’ and blah, blah, blah,” Trachtenberg recalled. “It really wasn’t. We were all cold. It was cool.”

Kelly Rutherford

Rutherford played Lively’s mother Lily Gossip Girl.

“She’s just so magical and cool,” Rutherford gushed in the 2022 episode “Beyond the Velvet Rope”. podcast. “He just has such an opinion about her. She’s so inspiring because she’s really fearless, she’s not afraid of anyone and she’s very open.”

However, Rutherford admitted that she did not have a close relationship with Lively during the pilot because she was a new mother in real life.

“I just didn’t have the bandwidth,” she said. “But it worked great because there was such a separateness that allowed for that relationship. It created enough distance where it worked to be a parent in that way.”