Blake Lively opens up about torture of dual role in ‘Another Simple Favor’

Another Simple Favor Blake Lively had a double role, just like the original film.

In the 2018 original A Simple Favor, Lively had dual roles as Emily Nelson and her estranged sister Faith. The film also reveals they had a triplet, Charity, who was stillborn.

Emily drowns Faith in a lake and goes to jail after her frenemy Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) uses a clever trick to expose her.

In the sequel, the twist lies in the revelation that Emily’s triplet sister Charity didn’t die but was stolen by their aunt at birth.

Lively opened up about playing dual roles again in the new film and how director Paul Feig surprised her with the twist.

“I was like, no nerves, I know what I’m doing this time — and then right before we started shooting he said, ‘I have, like, a little bit of a curveball idea.’ … It definitely upped the ante. It was very uncomfortable to watch in this theater with you all. It was my own personal torture,” she explained.

However, she gushed that Emily is “probably my favorite character I’ve ever been fortunate enough to play.”

Feig also shared insight into how the twisted storyline was finalized.

“There were a lot of times in the development of this I tried to kill it because I was just like, ‘If we don’t get it right, let’s not do it,’ ” he said, according to USA Today.

“We actually had a script that was green-lit, and we threw 70 percent out of it,” he shared.