Blake Lively on Celebrity: ‘People Look at You Like a Zoo Animal’

Blake Lively is hotter than hot thanks to Gossip Girl. Playing Serena on the hugely popular CW series has made her a TV star, and her role in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants films has made her a hit with movie audiences.

Now, Lively is exploring her dark side in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, as the tortured teenage version of title character. Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf discovered why Lively didn’t mind being a little naughty for the role.

Her first time on a dog leash.
“Pippa does get very dark. Like, that was me on a dog leash being led around for a photo shoot by Julianne Moore, who plays a lesbian photographer. It sounds bizarre, but it was exciting for me because I never really went through that dark and wild stage, so to get to explore that in the safety of a movie set was great.”

Except maybe for getting naked.
“Apparently naked, not fully naked. I was lying partially naked on Alan Arkin, but strategic body parts were covered. It’s always scary when you’re in front of strangers half naked, but the fact that it was with Alan, honestly, didn’t make it any weirder. I think being with a young dude would have been more awkward because I might have been like, ‘Well, does he think I look cute right now?’”

Coping with a mom from hell.
“Pippa’s mother is the total opposite of my mother. Maria Bello was very unpredictable in the way she played her. Like, she was supposed to be strung out on drugs and I never knew whether she was going to scream or slap me. I can’t imagine having that person in my life. My mother has always been my best friend.”

Hiding her real self on screen.
“About the only thing I share with Serena in Gossip Girl is that she and I wear the same clothes. I didn’t have much in common with Pippa in this movie at all. But, I think it’s better to play characters that aren’t too much like you. I’m also a very shy person, so I don’t feel like I would do a very good job if I had to play myself because I feel like it would be a lot of bad acting.”

If she could change one thing about Serena.
“She lies a lot. Oh my goodness, she’s always saying, ‘I’m sorry for lying.’ She’s really a pathological liar. I feel like season three she was saying, ‘I’m trying to change.’ It doesn’t really matter at this point. Sometimes I feel like, ‘Serena, if you’re sorry, just stop lying so much.’”

It’s not easy dining out when you’re a celebrity.
“The paparazzi frenzy and the media frenzy that is happening right now is really kind of out of control. For me, it’s very important to keep my personal life personal. It’s odd sometimes when people look at you like a zoo animal when you’re out at a restaurant eating dinner. People are staring at you and pulling out their camera phones. I’m just a human being and sometimes a messy eater — so it’s really unpleasant to be scrutinized like that.”

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Update: Blake Lively and Victoria Beckham collaboration whispers were just rumours

Earlier this week, we reported that it looked as if Blake Lively was to step up as the face of Victoria Beckham’s eponymous label but we can now say that these rumours have been well and truly quashed.

A spokesperson for Beckham told Vogue: ‘I don’t know where this one has come from - other than from Blake being a fan of the Victoria Beckham collection… She is not Victoria’s ‘Muse’ and there is no ‘face of’ the advertising campaign.’

It’s no doubt that Lively would have made a good model for the Victoria Beckham collection. Afterall, she has already been snapped in that lovely black number from the spring 2010 collection looking like the perfect muse.

Oh well. Sorry Gossip Girl fans - this one’s a definite no-go.

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Blake Lively has an appetite, and she’s not afraid to show it! The buxom blonde was spotted at Ed’s Chowderhouse on W. 63rd in NYC yesterday, and while her boyfriend Penn Badgley was “sipping tea and drinking coffee,” Blake had a spread of “eggs, bacon, coffee, tea, orange juice, and French toast!”

The gorgeous actress sat down to her big breakfast before filming Gossip Girl next door at the Empire Hotel. We don’t know where she puts it, because Blake looks stunning, but it’s always nice to hear about an actress who can eat!

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