“‘Green Lantern’ wasn’t,” Lively told MTV News, “I didn’t know about ‘Green Lantern.’ That’s what’s so exciting about it. I was just saying, you know, to get to introduce it to a young generation is a cool thing.”

Lively seemed most interested in providing a bridge between generations and seeing what it would be like to present the title hero to a new audience, including her own family members.

“My nephews, when I brought them to set, I had them put on the ring, and they were like, ‘Oh, this is cool,’ and I thought, ‘In a year from now you’re gonna be so happy that I made you take this picture,’” she explained.

And in the end, “Green Lantern” met those expectations and became the job she wanted it to be.

“Doing a superhero picture is something that just seems like so much fun, and it really was,” the actress said.

Source: MTV

Sources say that Lively auditioned for the role over a month ago along with 11 other women. Johansson only read for the part last week.

While Johannson is a bigger star internationally, Warner Bros. has long been a fan of cultivating young talent that it had a hand in discovering, which definitely describes Lively. She co-stars in the studio’s upcoming flick The Town as well as Green Lantern, in which she plays Ryan Reynolds’ love interest. Warner Bros. TV is also responsible for Gossip Girl, which co-stars Lively, on the CW.

It’s not lost on anyone that Reynolds is Johansson’s husband. Depending on the outcome of the Cuaron project, the Green Lantern premiere could be one awkward affair. Warner Bros. declined to comment.

Source: Hollywood Insider

Blake Lively thinks men are given better opportunities than women in the film industry.

The ‘Green Lantern’ actress – who shot to fame after starring in ‘The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants’ at the age of 16 – has a long list of actors she looks up to, but insists she doesn’t envy anyone else’s career.

When asked whose career she admires, Blake replied: “People always ask me that and I always answer with men. Which is not to say that there aren’t incredible women in this business, but I feel like men are still given much better opportunities.

“I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can’t look at one person’s life and say, ‘I want that life.’ I want to make my own history.

“I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it’s going to work out. Because even if other people don’t like what you’re doing, you’re happy because you did what you believed in.”

The blonde beauty also revealed she didn’t have her heart set on an acting career from a young age.

She added to Interview magazine: “I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn’t like, ‘This is the career that I want to pursue’. So when I first started acting, I was more concerned with just being on a set and all of the woes of that, and I didn’t really know it or understand it as a craft yet.”

Source: Contact Music

“I’m actually a very shy person – that’s a big secret, so don’t tell,” Lively tells actor Ben Affleck in the September issue of Interview magazine. “But being in [acting] classes pushed me to break out of that a little bit. It’s like nature versus nurture: I’m naturally very shy, but I was brought up in a way where I had to get up and get out of that.”

Lively, 23, had to force herself out of her comfort zone when she began working on the upcoming thriller “The Town.” On her very first day of work, the actress says she had to film a sex scene with Affleck, who also stars in and directed the film.

The blond beauty also takes her acting skills out onto the red carpet, where she says she’s not as comfortable as she may appear.

“With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident,” she tells the mag. “We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we’re all only so confident. It doesn’t mean we think we’re great looking or anything. It’s all a facade.”

Coming from a family of actors, Lively credits her upbringing for the maturity she now encompasses.

“I have a big, close, loving family, and they’re all from the South, but because so many of them are actors, everyone was very normal about it,” she explains. “It was just like any job to them. They always came home and talked about it around the dinner table the way any family talks about work, but it wasn’t anything special.”

In fact, the actress jokes that her leap into Hollywood is due to everyday perks found around the movie set.

“I don’t feel like I ever had any sort of Hollywood upbringing,” she says. “I got to travel and visit my family on set. I got to eat craft service. I actually think that was the reason I got into acting: the free food. I literally remember on my first job being like, ‘Yes! I get to have craft service every day!’”

Source: NY Daily News

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According to Heat magazine, the actress has become tired with constant behind-the-scenes arguments and wants to kill off her character Serena Van Der Woodsen.

An unnamed source said: “Blake has asked producers to kill off her character. She’s tired of working on the show. It was great at the beginning, but she’s started to get bored of her storylines and all the petty fights on set.

“Nearly all the cast members have had some kind of bust-up. Besides the fact that she gets to work with her boyfriend [Penn Badgley, who plays Dan Humphrey], Blake wants to leave.”

Lively has reportedly asked for a “dramatic exit” and has made suggestions to the show’s producers about how Serena could die.

Gossip Girl returns to The CW for a fourth season on September 13.

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