Blake Lively Talks Sexism in Hollywood

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Glamour Magazine has revealed Blake Lively as its September 2017 cover star.The Executive Producer of The Husband’s Secret, the big-screen adaptation of Liane Moriarty‘s novel had a sit down with Glamour to discus career and marriage challenges.
According to her

It’s nonsense. It simplifies people. Not all men, but a subsection of men have a desire to understand and control women. To do that, you have to paint them into this thing you can wrap your head around. But women are complex. It also is [a reminder] that what you see in the media is not real life. The night before an interview, I have complete anxiety: How is this person going to spin me? So when you read, ‘Oh, she’s got a perfect life,’ or ‘Her life is crumbling’ — they pick narratives for everyone. And the narratives stick.”

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GLAMOUR: How long are you in Vancouver?

BLAKE LIVELY: My husband’s shooting Deadpool, and I’m here for the full shoot. We don’t work at the same time. We’re here as a fami­ly, then we’ll pack up, and I’ll go do a couple movies.

GLAMOUR: How does that work, when you have two people with amazing careers? It must require some careful negotiation.

BL: I admire people who find that what fulfills them is their art or their work, but what fulfills both me and my husband is our family. Knowing that, everything else comes second. We’ve each given up stuff we loved in order to not work at the same time. I’m fortunate to be in a place now where I get to find the material—a book or script—early and develop it. So I know ahead of time that I’m going to be working on this job at this time. And we can plan around it.

GLAMOUR: One thing you found early is The Husband’s Secret. What about it made you say, “I want to produce this one”?

BL: It’s a little bit pulpy; that makes it really fun. And there are a bunch of women at the center of it—strong women, flawed women. Any day you employ women, to me, is a good day.

GLAMOUR: You’ve said before that you are drawn to characters who are complicated, but not just complicated because they’re damaged

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BL: I think that onscreen—at least in the mainstream—complicated women are black-and-white. They’re villains, or they’re heroic. And that’s just not real life…. We all have a lightness, and we all have darkness, and we all have plenty of shades in between.

GLAMOUR: Do you agree with Reese Witherspoon that, to achieve parity in the industry, women need to produce their own stuff?

BL: I think it helps a lot. Nobody’s going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself. That said, I know a lot of great men—directors, producers, studio heads—looking to tell stories about women, some because they’re drawn to those stories, some because they’re husbands or fathers and want to see the women in their life represented more accurately, and some just because they look at the numbers. They see, “Wonder Woman has replaced religion in America. We should probably invest in female summer movies.”

GLAMOUR: Finally—do you have any words you live by?

BL: “This too shall pass.” It’s a reminder—if something is painful, it will pass. But also, if something is beautiful, knowing that this too shall pass makes you hold on to the moment. Savor it.

For more from Blake’s cover story, visit www.glamour.com.
Credits
Hair: Rod Ortega - @rodortega4hair
Photography: Nathaniel Goldberg - @nathanielgoldberg
Styling: Jilian Davison - @jilliandavison
Makeup: Kristofer Buckle - @kristoferbuckle

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