Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick 'feud' mystery in full from 'snark' to Taylor Swift

Hollywood A listers Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick will soon reunite to promote the sequel to their hit film A Simple Favor, which led to rumours of a fallout six years ago

There is one burning question fans of Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick want to know - do they really hate each other?

Blake, 38, has been having a torrid time of it recently, facing criticism for the way she promoted her recent movie It Ends with Us before becoming embroiled in a full-on legal battle with her co-star and the film's director, Justin Baldoni. The Green Lantern star has accused Justin and a lead producer on the film of sexual harassment, prompting the actor's lawyer to apparently create a website offering public access to his legal files. Blake and Justin both deny each other's claims.

Of the alleged beef with Anna, 39, opinions seem divided - some fans are convinced the actresses fell out spectacularly when they filmed black comedy A Simple Favor in 2018, while others insist nothing went down but scurrilous rumours. With the stars soon reuniting to promote the movie's sequel, Another Simple Favor, it seems a good time to look back at the evidence...

At the centre of the feud rumours lies 2018 press interviews the mother-of-four and Pitch Perfect star did together, where Anna seems to mock Blake for not being as talented as she is. When Blake took an MTV News interviewer to task for focussing on Anna, she said: "Oh my god, guys don't fight just because I'm the best at everything". "I met [Blake] a few times through Ryan [Reynolds] on that film [The Voices] and you know, I thought she [Blake] seemed nice, but little did I know," added the Twilight actress, before jokingly snapping: "Don't touch me".

The atmosphere seems to then go cold as Blake brushed off her co-star's jokes with an awkward grin. The Green Lantern actress insists she would "never be able to be a Disney Princess without Anna's voice", leading Anna to sarcastically retort back: "Oh muffin, it's so hard being you!"

It's hard to tell if the pair are really joking and as Anna told Net-A-Porter's The Edit in 2016, she is "snarky" with a "dry and cynical" sense of humour. "That's just how I communicate," she insisted. The star managed to take a potential swipe at Blake's bestie Taylor Swift in the same interview, saying she would be "be terrible at being like Taylor, the perfect Miss Americana version of interacting with fans and making sure they have a good experience".

Respected podcast The Celebrity Memoir Book Club, run by New York City comedians, Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton, fuelled the fire by claiming to have insider knowledge that the two women "were not speaking" by the time shooting wrapped on their movie. "They HATED each other," they said, citing a studio insider as their source. "The studio even had to have a talk with them about making it look like they liked each other on press tours because it was starting to get obvious."

"Anna in particular was really competitive with Blake and was constantly asking to make sure she got more promotion than Blake and even made us PHOTOSHOP HER CLEAVAGE in The Simple Favor poster to be as big (or bigger) than Blake's," added the podcast hosts.

Blake and Anna never commented on the alleged animosity but their co-star in the film, Henry Golding, insisted to Watch What Happens Live there was "definitely no friction that I noticed". The body language experts will be waiting for the sequel to find out if he's right...