Between work and family life with four kids, it’s been a busy summer for Blake Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds.
But on Thursday, the famous power couple took a quick break and headed out together for a casual stroll through the normally busy streets of Manhattan.
The pair could be seen chatting, laughing and smiling, holding hands as they kept a steady pace en route to their destination.
The actress, 37, showed off her sense of casual-cool style, wearing 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 cool dark sunglasses, and her long blonde locks flowed over her chest and down the center of her back with a center parting.
Blake Lively, 37, and 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 own personal style, Reynolds went for a walk with his wife in light green/brown pants that resemble khaki, with a light pink-beige jacket over an off-white shirt.
The Old Hollywood leading man also wore a pair of white sneakers, cool 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), starring Justin Baldoni, who also directed it.
Although the romantic drama received mixed reviews from critics, it became a major hit at the worldwide box office, grossing $335 million worldwide against a production budget of $25 million.
The film is adapted from a screenplay by Christy Hall based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover
With this number, it’s easy to see why the book sequel – It Starts With Us – will be adapted into the movie sequel, but it’s not a foregone conclusion that both Lively and Baldoni will return due to the rumored feud between the two. couple during the production of the first film, according to Life and style.
An insider told the publication that Reynolds is willing to offer Baldoni millions for his stake in the franchise to prevent the pair from working together again.
In addition, Lively also faced claims that she had insensitively promoted It Ends With Us, which is based on Colleen Hoover’s novel about an abusive relationship, because 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 of both filming and promoting new films
Over the summer, Lively promoted the film It End with Us with director Justin Baldoni, but it is said they had a falling out on set, so reprising their roles for the proposed sequel to It Starts With Us is in jeopardy.
Although the film was a box office hit grossing $335.1 million, Lively was hit by claims that she callously promoted the film, based on Colleen Hoover’s novel about an abusive relationship, and often neglected to highlight the serious themes of the film to be mentioned during the press trip.
Lively also spent part of her spring and busy summer shooting 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 on another screenplay 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 elegant and mysterious girlfriend, earned $97.6 million at the worldwide box office while spending $20 million on production costs.
During some of those weeks and months that Lively was at work, Reynolds shot his own moving and shaking footage of two new films: the live-action adult animation Animal Friends and the action-adventure A Simple Favor.
And that work on those new films was on top of all the promotion the actor has been doing for Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) since it premiered in US theaters at the end of July.
The mother of four has also filmed the sequel to A Simple Favor alongside Anna Kendrick
Reynolds has filmed two new films this spring and summer – the live-action animated adult film Animal Friends and the action-adventure A Simple Favor – all to promote Deadpool & Wolverine
The superhero film, which served as director’s sequel to Deadpool 2 (2018), became a box office hit, grossing $1.318 billion in revenues and a working budget of $200 million.
During those summer days of August, Lively and Reynolds became the first married Hollywood couple with two separate films – Deadpool & Wolverine and It Ends With Us – which topped the box office at numbers one and two during the weekend of August 9-11.
That’s a first since Bruce Willis and Demi Moore topped the box office in the same weekend with Die Hard 2 and Ghost since 1990.
While Reynolds and Lively have been going from job to job in recent months, the couple has also had their daily family responsibilities, consisting of their four children: James, nine, Inez, seven, Betty, four, and Olin, one.
The native of Los Angeles, California
Although Lively is best known to most fans for her role in the teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007-2012), she actually made her breakthrough in the comedy-drama film Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (2005).
Reynolds, 47,
The Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
In August 2024, Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively became the first married Hollywood couple to have two separate films they starred in 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 occupying the number one and number two spots at the box office during the weekend of August 9 to 11