Playing the female lead in a first-tier superhero franchise is a great opportunity for any actress, but in “Green Lantern,” Blake Lively actually gets to do some butt-kicking alongside her co-star Ryan Reynolds, who plays the title character. Lively didn’t just have to square off against Reynolds’s formidable presence, but the hype and expectation that comic-book fans have going into one of the genre’s most highly anticipated adaptations.
In the coming “Green Lantern,” Lively plays Carol Ferris, the feisty pilot who’s also the childhood sweetheart of Reynolds’s reluctant protector of the human race. Speakeasy caught up with Lively to talk about the movie.
Speakeasy: How aware were you of “Green Lantern” comics before taking the role of Carol Ferris?
Blake Lively: I actually knew nothing about Green Lantern, and I imagined that nobody else in the world knew anything about Green Lantern. And as soon as I got the role I was quickly humbled about how naïve I was, because people just came out of the woodwork! I’m on [the “Gossip Girl”] set with a ton of New Yorkers, [and] they were grilling me about Star Sapphire, and Hector Hammond, and Parallax, and who’s going to be in it. But it’s also really exciting that I didn’t know anything about it because then my nephews don’t know anything about it. And to introduce a character to a younger generation, you have a lot more freedom and you’re not being compared to all the different incarnations that you’ve seen before, like the more commonly known superheroes.
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