I just read through my latest issue of Esquire and they had a fairly lengthy interview of Blake Lively where she spends a good amount of time talking about The Town (here) which you all may remember filmed in Charlestown (and other parts of Boston) last year. And for those of you that are Gossip Girl fans, she talks a bit about that as well. Here are a couple of excerpts about The Town:The way I dress as Serena is pretty much the way I dress as me. I'm living in New York City, shooting in New York City," she says. "I'm in a comfort zone." The Town jerked her out of that, and not only because she plays a poor woman living a dumpish life. To accommodate the shooting schedule last fall, she took the Amtrak from Penn Station up to Boston on the weekends.
It is just a movie, but The Town is about as far from Gossip Girl as a movie could be. It concerns bank robbers in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a tough place across the Charles River from Boston. Lively's character is a single mom who's also a drug mule. She gets the crap beaten out of her in one scene, which to my knowledge has never happened on Gossip Girl.
"Every scene that I had was a heavy scene," she says. "I mean the scenes were — I hate to sound dramatic, but they were cataclysmic. I'm screaming, I'm crying, I'm fighting, I'm on drugs, I'm in the hospital. They were all very, very rough. Rough to perform, rough to watch or to experience.
There's plenty more about The Town in the article, but I figure you can read it online and/or pick up a copy of the magazine to read the rest.
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