Between their work and their home life with four children, it’s been a busy summer for Blake Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds.
But on Thursday the celebrity power couple took a brief time out and headed out on a casual walk together along the normally bustling streets of Manhattan.
The pair could be seen chatting, laughing and smiling, all while holding hands as they kept up a steady pace en route to their destination.
The actress, 37, showed off her sense of casual-cool style dressed in a pink sweater with blue jeans and burgundy UGG x OC Tasman platform shoes.
Rounding out her overall look, the Gossip Girl alum carried a heart-shaped Chanel bag over her shoulder, while donning cool dark sunglasses, and her long blonde locks flowing over her chest and down past the middle of her back with a center part.
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 in New York City
Known for his own personal style, Reynolds went out on the walk with his wife wearing light green/tan pants that resemble khakis with a light pink-beige jacket over an off-white shirt.
The longtime Hollywood leading man also sported 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 out promoting her latest film It Ends With Us (2024), co-starring Justin Baldoni, who also served as the director.
While the romantic drama received mixed reviews from critics, it went on to become a big hit at the worldwide box-office, grossing $335 million worldwide against a production budget of $25 million.
The film was adapted from a screenplay by Christy Hall that’s based on the 2016 novel of the same name from Colleen Hoover
With number like that, it’s easy to see why the book’s sequel – It Starts With Us – is set to be adapted to the sequel film, but it’s not a done deal that both Lively and Baldoni will be back due to the rumored feud between the pair during production of the first film, according to Life & Style.
An insider told the publication that Reynolds is willing to offer Baldoni millions for his stake in the franchise, in order to avoid having the pair work together again.
Plus, Lively was also hit with claims that she insensitively promoted It Ends With Us, which is based on Colleen Hoover’s novel about an abusive relationship, as she had 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 both of them shoot new films and promote
Over the summer Lively promoted the film – It End with Us – alongside director Justin Baldoni, but there’s word they feuded on set so reprising their roles for the proposed sequel for – It Starts With Us – is in jeopardy
While the film was a box office hit, grossing $335.1 million, Lively was hit by claims that she insensitively promoted the film, based off Colleen Hoover’s novel about an abusive relationship, and often failed to mention the movie’s serious themes during the press tour
Lively also spent part of her spring and busy summer shooting the still 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 screenplay by Jessica Sharzer, who based the story on the 2017 novel of the same name by Darcey Bell.
The original movie, which follows a small-town vlogger who tries to solve the disappearance of her elegant and mysterious friend, earned $97.6 million at the worldwide box office while spending $20 million on production costs.
During some of those weeks and months Lively was working, Reynolds has been doing his own moving and shaking shooting two new films – the live-action adult-animated 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 did for Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) since it premiered in theaters in the U.S. in late July.
The mother of four is also shot the sequel to A Simple Favor alongside Anna Kendrick
Reynolds shot two new films 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 a director sequel to Deadpool 2 (2018), went on to become a blockbuster hit grossing $1.318 billion in receipts while working budget of $200 million.
During those summer days of August, Lively and Reynolds became the first married Hollywood couple to have two separate films – Deadpool & Wolverine and It Ends With Us – that topped the box office at number one and two during the August 9–11 weekend.
That’s a first since Bruce Willis and Demi Moore starred at the top of the box office on the same weekend since 1990 with Die Hard 2 and Ghost.
As Reynolds and Lively went from job to job these past few months, the couple also have their everyday family responsibilities to attend to 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,
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 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 number two spots at the box office during the August 9-11 weekend