Blake Lively was criticized for touching her male co-star's 'private area'.

Blake Lively's touching of 'Crazy Rich Asian' actor Henry Golding's genitals while filming 'A Simple Favor' has been called 'disgusting' by the audience.

An old interview has just resurfaced, where Blake Lively admitted to improvising a sensitive touching scene in the famous 2018 psychological film. According to Dailymail, the actress explained that she grabbed Henry (who plays her husband)'s private parts during a tense encounter between the two characters in the living room. "It wasn't because I wanted to, it was because I felt like my character would do it," Blake said.

Director Paul Feig confirmed in the conversation that Blake came up with the act herself and he praised her idea.

Blake Lively and Henry Golding in a controversial scene from the movie 'A Simple Favor'.

Blake Lively's confession and the scene in A Simple Favor have come to light amid her ongoing lawsuit against co-star Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment during the filming of It Ends With Us (2024). Many viewers were surprised that Blake could act out such a daring scene with Henry Golding while she sued Justin Baldoni for some neck-grabbing scenes.

"How can she have the audacity to improvise a scene like that but be angry when Baldoni does the same to her?" one person wrote. Another said: "The grabbing was Blake's idea, it wasn't in the script and there was no intimacy coordinator on set. Henry had less power to say no."

More harsh comments: "Unbelievable, poor Henry looks so uncomfortable. This woman is shameless", "Where is the intimacy coordinator?", "Maybe this is why Henry doesn't follow Blake on Instagram, but he follows Anna Kendrick".

Blake Lively has yet to respond to this noise. The 37-year-old actress is in the process of promoting the second part of A Simple Favor, titled Another Simple Favor - a work that continues to feature Blake with Henry Golding and Anna Kendrick. There were rumors that Blake had a conflict with Anna while filming the first part, however, on April 1, Blake denied this with a series of photos of them attending the film's introduction together last weekend.

Meanwhile, Blake Lively is embroiled in a tense legal battle with actor and director Justin Baldoni in It Ends With Us. In December 2024, she filed a lawsuit against Justin for sexual harassment during filming, demanding $250 million in compensation. However, Justin countersued by filing a $400 million countersuit against her, her husband - actor Ryan Reynolds and journalist Leslie Sloane, accusing them of abusing their power in the entertainment industry to remove him from their own films and ruin his career. The lawsuit between the two stars has attracted the attention of the media and fans over the past months.