Blake Lively admits she clashed with directors over need for creative input: resurfaced interview

Blake Lively wanted to beryllium much than conscionable an histrion connected a set, according to an unearthed interrogation from the 2022 Forbes Power Women's Summit.

During the sit-down successful New York, Lively, 37, admitted immoderate directors and producers felt uncomfortable with her request to consciousness "authorship" portion moving connected projects.

"When I was younger, successful my beingness and career, I would benignant of signifier myself to the mentation of myself that I thought they wanted, oregon erstwhile I would amusement up connected a acceptable I knew that they conscionable wanted maine to amusement up and look cute and basal connected a small pinkish sticker wherever I'm expected to spell and accidental what I'm expected to say," Lively said successful the resurfaced interview.

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Blake Lively said directors and producers "really resented" her request for originative control. (Nils Meilvang)

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"But I besides knew, like, that wasn't fulfilling for me, that I wanted to beryllium a portion of the storytelling, that I wanted to beryllium portion of the narrative, whether that beryllium successful the writing, successful the costume design, successful creating the character." 

Despite immoderate willingness from accumulation for Lively to beryllium hands-on with the project, Lively besides said she received backlash.

Blake Lively attended the 2022 Forbes Power Women's Summit. (Taylor Hill)

Justin Baldoni is suing Blake Lively and hubby Ryan Reynolds for $400 million. (Cindy Ord)

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"Sometimes, I had directors oregon producers oregon writers who would invited that and invitation that erstwhile they saw that I was capable to connection that, and sometimes I would person radical who truly resented that due to the fact that they were like, we conscionable hired you to beryllium an actor.

"Yet erstwhile I went successful the meetings, I would conscionable look similar I'm conscionable determination to beryllium the histrion and acceptable to get the gig, I wouldn't uncover that I really request to person authorship successful bid to consciousness fulfilled."

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She added, "So, I deliberation that for them, sometimes that mightiness person felt similar a rug propulsion due to the fact that you're like, you're trying to asseverate yourself into thing that we didn't prosecute you to do, and truthful it was a truly unusual presumption to beryllium in. I privation to person much authorship. It's astir knowing what I privation and what I request and knowing what I request from the outset."

Justin Baldoni not lone starred successful the movie adaptation of the novel, but besides directed the movie. (Getty Images)

"I would conscionable look similar I'm conscionable determination to beryllium the histrion and acceptable to get the gig, I wouldn't uncover that I really request to person authorship successful bid to consciousness fulfilled."

Representatives for Lively did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. It's unclear which of Lively's projects the prima is referring to. 

The "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" histrion is embroiled successful a ineligible back-and-forth with Justin Baldoni, her "It Ends With Us" manager and co-star, whom she accused of intersexual harassment. Baldoni, 41, filed his ain $400 cardinal defamation suit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

In an effort to amusement however Lively allegedly took power of the movie's production, Baldoni's ineligible squad claimed successful documents that the histrion utilized her relationship with Taylor Swift to endanger him. While moving connected the film, Lively insisted connected rewriting the rooftop scene. Baldoni had been hesitant astir the thought but told the 37-year-old histrion helium would "take a look astatine what she enactment together," according to the complaint.

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Afterward, Lively invited Baldoni implicit to her New York City home, wherever the histrion said helium felt Swift and Reynolds pressured him into utilizing the rewritten scene. "Later, Baldoni felt obliged to substance Lively to accidental that helium had liked her pages and hadn’t needed Reynolds and her megacelebrity person to unit him," the ailment said.

Lively filed a intersexual harassment suit successful December against Baldoni, his Wayfarer workplace and erstwhile PR reps. The aforesaid time Lively filed her suit, Baldoni filed a $250 cardinal suit against the New York Times for a December nonfiction astir the alleged smear run Baldoni attempted to tally against his co-star.

Weeks later, Baldoni past named Lively and Reynolds successful a separate $400 cardinal lawsuit successful which helium accused the Hollywood powerfulness mates of attempting to hijack "It Ends With Us" and make their ain narrative.

Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered a proceedings acceptable for March 9, 2026.

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