![]() But there’s something really nice about having a confidant and a close friend who just has such a different world view and such a different life experience. I have a couple of friends where, every now and then when I have an out-of-body moment, I think, “How did we become friends?” They’re just so different from me. What do you think this film says, if anything, about female friendship?ĪK: I think there’s a nice thing about opposites attracting. And Paul, you’re known for putting women - and relationships between women - front and center in your movies, too. Stephanie, a single mother, cherishes this newly formed friendship, but the relationship complicates as deceit and manipulation creep in. The film starts with an innocent bond between the two main characters, Stephanie and Emily. ![]() I could see a big star going, “Oh, I’m not going to do that.”ĪK: A disappointing number of men are not interested in playing the second lead to a female character, when I think some of the most brilliant people in the industry - who happen to be women - do it all the time and make the most of it.ī+C: Anna, you starred in the Pitch Perfect films, which are all about women. In A Simple Favor, friendship is presented as a central theme, often entwined with deceit. PF: In some ways, it is a more thankless role, because he’s at the service of these two characters, getting pushed around in the middle. Got all the twists.’ And then as you start to dissect it, you start to second-guess everything.”Īhead, Kendrick and Feig share their memories of making the movie - including their initial reactions to the script, their thoughts on Henry Golding (who plays Emily’s husband, Sean), and why Emily and Stephanie’s friendship is so important to the central mystery. Two brothers a veteran desperate to support his family and a career criminal try to escape a bank heist gone wrong in an unlikely getaway vehicle. “You read it the first time, and you’re like, ‘Got it. After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears in this true-crime docuseries. “I aged 10 years,” Kendrick joked to Brit + Co of working on the film. A Simple Favor Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. We won’t spoil the ending for you, but suffice it to say that nothing about the movie or the titular favor is simple. Deadline is reporting that Lionsgate and Amazon Studios are partnering on a sequel to the critically acclaimed 2018 thriller A Simple Favor.Reportedly, the stars of the original film Anna Kendrick. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate. A Simple Favor is in cinemas now.ĭid we miss anything? Let us know in the comments below.After months of cryptic teasers and social-media stunts, Paul Feig’s neo-noir thriller A Simple Favor, starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, is finally opening in theaters this week - which means everyone will soon know the answer to the question, “What happened to Emily?”īased on the novel of the same name by Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor follows Stephanie (Kendrick) as she attempts to unravel the mystery of her best friend Emily’s disappearance. Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. ![]() In the aftermath, Sean was cleared of charges and continued life with Nicky, Stephanie's vlog became more successful and she took up being a part-time detective, and Emily flourished in her new life in prison. Emily attempted to flee but was hit by a car and then arrested. ![]() Emily destroys the microphones and holds the pair at gunpoint, planning to kill them both and pass it off as a murder-suicide.Įmily shoots Sean and turns on Stephanie, before the vlogger revealed that she had been streaming to her loyal audience of followers. Stephanie and Sean confront Emily and the trio argue, ending in Stephanie shooting Sean, but Emily sees through this as a ruse to expose her machinations on a microphone. Creative Artists Agency represented the movie rights in the deal with Fox. The story was pitched as being similar to Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. Stephanie agreed to help Emily return publicly and frame Sean for her disappearance and insurance fraud, which was borne out of Sean's flirtation with a colleague and continued devotion to Emily, despite a romantic relationship with Stephanie having blossomed since Emily's funeral.Įmily gets custody of Nicky and Sean is arrested and released on bail. In January 2016, it was announced that 20th Century Fox had bought the film rights to author Darcey Bells novel A Simple Favor prior to the books publication.
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