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Sep 2, 2010
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Blake Lively: I want a risky career

Blake Lively says she doesn’t want to “play it safe” with her career.

The star shot to fame playing New York socialite Serena Van Der Woodsen on the popular American television show Gossip Girl. Although Blake is grateful to have been given her big break on the small screen, she is keen to prove she is a serious actress and doesn’t want to be typecast.

The star can currently be seen in The Town, in which she plays a drug-addicted single mother alongside Ben Affleck. Blake jumped at the opportunity to take on the challenging role and hopes it will help cement her Hollywood status.

“I’m on a very commercial show, so the last thing I want to do is a commercial movie,” Blake explained in the October issue of Marie Claire magazine. “I wanna take risks, I don’t wanna play it safe. I mean, I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects. It would be nice to buy an apartment but I’m 22 and I don’t need to yet.

“I live in New York City. So, I’m able to differentiate between what I want and need and what I want more is to do great roles.”

Blake has hinted she is keen to focus on her movie career full-time and has cast doubts over her future on Gossip Girl. Although the star still has a few more seasons left on her contract, she admits she is unsure if the show will last that long.

“We have six-year contracts but who knows how long TV shows ever run,” Blake said. “They don’t always go the full season contracted… We’re in season four.”

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Published on
Aug 31, 2010
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Candids Gallery

Gallery Updates and New Layout Coming Soon!

…. we are workng on a sexy new layout for all of you Blake fans! Meanwhile some gallery additions for you to take a peek at… HERE.

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Published on
Aug 26, 2010
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Blake in Interview!

Serena van der Woodsen: beautiful, glamorous, elegant young woman about town; fashionable and firm but fair ruler of Manhattan’s young social elite; wooer of hearts and slayer of men with names like Trip van der Bilt; tabloid magnet and off-and-on dater of her off-and-on step-brother-and nothing even remotely like Blake Lively. For three seasons, Lively-owner of the most talked-about hair in television since the heady days of the early-Friends Jennifer Aniston shag-has played van der Woodsen on the CW’s hit series Gossip Girl, guiding her through myriad breakups, scandals, falls from grace, and spirited comebacks amidst the show’s hyperreal vision of misspent youth in uptown New York. Now as the series enters its fourth season, the plot for Serena has begun to further thicken. Will she return from her summer vacation in Paris as a new woman, or out to settle old scores? Will she get back together with Dan? Will Nate come calling once again? What will she wear? But just as the arc of Serena’s sordid life on Gossip Girl has brought about new priorities, changes, and directions, so too has the trajectory of Lively’s career away from the show signaled a shift in direction for the 23-year-old actress.

Read On…

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Published on
Aug 11, 2010
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News Projects Rumors

Blake vs Scarlett Johansson

Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson are battling it out for the chance to star in Gravity.

A film about astronauts repairing the Hubble telescope who are hit with an avalanche of satellite junk. In a plot akin to “Cast Away,” the surviving astronaut must fight her way back to Earth, where she hopes to reunite with her daughter.

The project originally was set up at Universal as a vehicle for Angelina Jolie, but it moved to Warners, where it hit debris of its own: Jolie left the project, partially because of the studio’s balking at paying her £10 million fee.

Both actresses are repped by CAA. Blake is also is repped by Untitled Entertainment.

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Published on
May 28, 2010
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Vogue – June 2010

Blake is featured on the June 2010 cover of Vogue magazine! She is showcasing new swimsuits for summer and looks truly gorgeous in the mag. Check out the scans, photoshoot and caps from the behind the scenes video in the gallery. An excerpt from the article is already available here.

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May 24, 2010
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'New York, I Love You' Gallery

New York, I Love You DVD Screencaps

I want to apologize for the lack of updates for several months. Truth of the matter was I really lost interest here because I currently do not like the direction with Gossip Girl and there wasn’t much going on keeping my interest. However, after a little break, I feel refreshed and excited to update now that the show is off for the season and there is new things happening with Blake, so I hope this will last! I will try and make my way around to getting the site back up to date with Gossip Girl but it will be a gradual process since I really find the episodes quite boring these days. If anyone would like to help out capping them please don’t hesitate to get in touch!


For starters, screencaps of Blake’s very brief scene in New York, I Love You have been added. Her scene was shared with Anton Yelchin and Olivia Thirlby and was actually quite funny. She looks stunning in that red dress too!

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Published on
May 24, 2010
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Vogue – June 2010 Article

I can’t quite recall the disquieting moment when I realized that they were, in fact, all around me. I knew that Cameron Diaz broke her nose doing it and was unsurprised to discover that Stefano Pilati is very, very good at it. I was amazed to hear that my friend Holly Peterson travels to the ends of the Earth in pursuit of it and that Cynthia Rowley fashions clothing expressly for it. I knew that Damien Hirst’s partner, Maia, is gaga for it but that he’d rather just watch, and I was frankly dumbfounded that both Barneys’ gnomish Simon Doonan and Vanity Fair‘s Falstaffian Graydon Carter each had a go—and with the same happy band of practitioners, no less.

Instead of a Mason’s handshake or the furtive double glance of pre-Stonewall Temperamentals, an evangelical glint in the eye helped me recognize these cultists. Their faces would take on a beatific cast when I raised the subject, and in reverent tones they evoked otherworldly pleasures beyond the ken of ordinary mortals. And now I was about to be abducted into this bitchin’ netherworld of tubes, lips, and barrels.

Continue reading Vogue – June 2010 Article

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Published on
Feb 23, 2010
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'The Green Lantern'

Tim Robbins Joins Green Lantern

Tim Robbins is joining the cast of Green Lantern, the superhero movie based on the DC Comics character.

Robbins will play Senator Hammond, disapproving father of the movie’s villain, Dr. Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard), who becomes infused with psychic powers.

Ryan Reynolds stars as Green Lantern, with Blake Lively as the hero’s love interest, Carol Ferris.

Source: Times Colonist

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Feb 23, 2010
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'The Green Lantern'

Mark Strong Cast As The Green Lantern’s Sinestro

Comic book fans rejoiced when news arrived that The Green Lantern would be coming to the big screen with the perennially under-appreciated Ryan Reynolds playing the hero of the piece, Hal Jordan. The film, which begins shooting in March, already has Blake Lively attached as love interest Carol Ferris and An Education’s Peter Sarsgaard as the villainous Hector Hammond.

News comes today via DC Comics’ Geoff Johns’ twitter account that Mark Strong will officially be playing Sinestro, arguably The Green Lantern’s greatest adversary throughout the comics. Strong seems to be the first choice in Hollywood when casting bad guys right now, securing this role which Jackie Earl Haley was also widely linked with. Sinestro may play a smaller role in the Martin Campbell’s first installment with the character likely to play a bigger part in the franchise should the 2011 release prove to be a success.

Source: Front Row Reviews

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Published on
Feb 19, 2010
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'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee' Gallery Website

Autographed Pippa Lee Poster Contest!

blake-lively.net has been given the chance to host a contest where you can win an autographed The Private Lives of Pippa Lee poster! The poster is signed by Blake Lively herself along with Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin, and screenwriter Rebecca Miller!

All you need to do is e-mail me the following information with “Pippa Poster” in the subject line by next Wednesday and I will select a winner! The competition is unfortunately for US only. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Your Name:
Your E-mail:
Your Mailing Address:
What is your favorite Blake Lively performance and why?

The DVD and Blu Ray release for the film is scheduled for March 2nd 2010.

The film follows its title character Pippa Lee, played by Blake Lively and Robin Wright Penn. After nearly two decades caught under the wing of an aging husband (Alan Arkin), devoted mother and housewife Pippa Lee (Robin Wright) undergoes a midlife breakthrough. Unearthing the sexually curious wild child of her teens (as portrayed by Blake Lively), Pippa sparks a relationship with a kindred soul (Keanu Reeves). Lively and Wright deliver a stunning and revelatory performances in Pippa Lee; a wry, moving, and complex portrait of the many lives behind a single name. The film was released in theaters November 27th, 2009.

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