Blake Lively Interview for The Town - Celebrity Interviews

"The Town's 'Girl'"

The transition from TV star to film star is often tricky for a lot of actors, but Blake Lively proves to be handling the transition almost seamlessly. A closer look would reveal that this can be mainly because of her strong beginnings in film in movies like The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants films and Accepted.

Lively is still best known for her role as conflicted rich girl Serena van der Woodsen on the hit CW drama Gossip Girl, though her film career continues to flourish because of her critically acclaimed roles in indie films like Elvis And Annabelle and The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee. Now the 27 year-old actress hopes to heighten her profile as a film actress with a role as Krista Coughlin, the sister of a bank robber, in The Town.

The film is Ben Affleck’s sophomore film as director and as Blake can attest to, being directed by an actor, much less a major one in Hollywood, was no walk in the park.

“Well, for me, I got to experience Ben more as a director in the pre-production before we started shooting because he did so much work in finding all these wonderful resources for us,” Lively recalls, “From the women that we got to spend time with to the places that these people go around, just references, magazine clippings. He had this well of knowledge for us to tap into, if we wanted, at all of these resources.”

“He was so hardworking beforehand and really militant about getting the character down and the accent down, really understanding the people, the roots, where they come from,” she adds, “And also just their attitude was just such an important thing, how a detective would respond versus one of their friends. And then, when we were on set, it was just such a comfortable that was there that we were just able to step into and lose ourselves and that was more when I got to experience Ben as an actor and I never felt like he was there directing me or judging me, but rather we were just creating this together.”

Lively also adds that her being the star of one of the biggest TV dramas with the 18 to 30 year-old crowd did no... read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews