A Simple Favor 2 Cast Adds Oscar-Winning Actor

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Summary Oscar winner Allison Janney joins the cast of A Simple Favor 2.

It is unknown what character she will be playing in the movie, which follows the returning characters to a lavish Italian wedding.

The A Simple Favor 2 cast also includes Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Alex Newell, and Elizabeth Perkins.

A Simple Favor 2 has added an Oscar winner to the cast. The movie will be a sequel to the 2018 Paul Feig thriller, which was based on the Darcey Bell novel of the same name from the previous year. The movie followed the web of intrigue that was spun when young widowed mother Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) met Emily Nelson (Blake Lively), the seemingly perfect mother of one of her son's classmates. The new movie will follow the pair to Emily's lavish Italian wedding, where even more thrilling secrets will be unveiled.

Per Variety, another new cast member has joined the upcoming A Simple Favor 2. Oscar winner, Golden Globe winner, and seven-time Emmy winner Allison Janney has boarded the movie in an as-yet-unknown role. She joins a cast that includes returning stars Lively, Kendrick, Henry Golding (as Emily's former husband Sean Townsend), Bashir Salahuddin (as Detective Summerville), Joshua Satine (as Stephanie's son Miles), and Andrew Rannells (as Stephanie's friend Darren) alongside newcomers Alex Newell, Elizabeth Perkins, Elena Sofia Ricci, Michele Morrone, and Taylor Ortega.

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Source: Variety