Between her work and home life with four kids, it’s been a busy summer for Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds.
But on Thursday, the celebrity power couple took a brief break and took a casual stroll together through the normally bustling streets of Manhattan.
The couple could be seen chatting, laughing and smiling, all while holding hands as they kept a steady pace on the way to their destination.
The actress, 37, showed off her cool, casual sense of style dressed in a pink sweater with blue jeans and burgundy UGG x OC Tasman platform shoes.
To complete her overall look, the Gossip Girl alum carried a heart-shaped Chanel bag over her shoulder, while wearing dark sunglasses and her long blonde locks flowing over her chest and down to the middle of her back with a part. central.
Blake Lively, 37, and her husband Ryan Reynolds, 47, took a break from their busy lives and spent some quiet time together chatting and laughing during a casual stroll in New York City.
Known for his personal style, Reynolds went for a walk with his wife wearing light green/tan pants that resemble khaki pants with a light pink and beige jacket over an off-white shirt.
The veteran Hollywood leading man also sported a pair of white sneakers, dark sunglasses and a blue baseball cap over his short brown hair.
In recent weeks and months, Lively has been promoting her latest film It Ends With Us (2024), co-starring Justin Baldoni, who also served as director.
While the romantic drama received mixed reviews from critics, it became a huge hit at the global box office, grossing $335 million worldwide against a production budget of $25 million.
The film was adapted from a screenplay by Christy Hall based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover.
With numbers like that, it’s easy to see why the book sequel, It Starts With Us, will be adapted into the sequel movie, but it’s not a done deal that both Lively and Baldoni will return due to the couple’s rumored feud during production. from the first film, according to Life and style.
A source told the publication that Reynolds is willing to offer Baldoni millions for his stake in the franchise, to prevent the two from working together again.
Additionally, Lively also faced accusations that she insensitively promoted It Ends With Us, which is based on Colleen Hoover’s novel about an abusive relationship, as she often failed to mention the film’s serious themes during the press tour.
The couple looked stylish in their respective ensembles after a busy summer that saw them both filming new movies and promoting.
Over the summer, Lively promoted the film It End with Us alongside director Justin Baldoni, but they are rumored to have gotten into a fight on set, so reprising their roles for the proposed It Starts With Us sequel is in jeopardy.
While the film was a box office success, grossing $335.1 million, Lively was hit by accusations that she insensitively promoted the film, based on Colleen Hoover’s novel about an abusive relationship, and often failed to mention the serious themes of the film during the press tour.
Lively also spent part of her busy spring and summer filming the as-yet-untitled sequel to the black comedy crime film A Simple Favor (2018), alongside co-star Anna Kendrick.
Paul Feig is also back in the director’s chair working from another script by Jessica Sharzer, who based the story on the 2017 novel of the same name by Darcey Bell.
The original film, which follows a small-town vlogger trying to solve the disappearance of her stylish and mysterious friend, grossed $97.6 million at the global box office and spent $20 million on production costs.
During some of those weeks and months that Lively has been working, Reynolds has been making his own moves and shakes filming two new movies: the live-action, adult-animated Animal Friends and the action-adventure A Simple Favor.
And that work on those new films was added to all the promotion the actor did for Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) since it premiered in US theaters at the end of July.
The mother of four will also film the sequel to A Simple Favor alongside Anna Kendrick.
Reynolds filmed two new movies this spring and summer: the live-action, adult-animated Animal Friends and the action-adventure A Simple Favor, all while promoting Deadpool & Wolverine.
The superhero film, which served as the director’s sequel to Deadpool 2 (2018), became a box office hit that grossed $1.318 million in revenue on a working budget of $200 million.
During those summer days in August, Lively and Reynolds became the first married Hollywood couple to have two separate movies: Deadpool & Wolverine and It Ends With Us, which topped the box office at number one and two over the weekend. from August 9 to 11.
It’s the first time since Bruce Willis and Demi Moore topped the box office on the same weekend since 1990 with Die Hard 2 and Ghost.
While Reynolds and Lively have been going from job to job these past few months, the couple also has to attend to their day-to-day family responsibilities, consisting of their four children: James, nine, Inez, seven, Betty, four, and Olin, one.
The Los Angeles, California native
While Lively is best known to most fans for her role in the teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007-2012), she actually had her breakthrough in the comedy-drama film Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (2005).
Reynolds, 47 years old,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
In August 2024, Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively became the first married Hollywood couple to have two separate films in which they starred lead the box office on the same weekend since Bruce Willis and Demi Moore in 1990, as their respective films Deadpool and Wolverine and It. Ens With Us would occupy the number one and two positions at the box office during the weekend of August 9 to 11
