Monday, July 31, 2017

Blake Lively On Opportunities for Women in Hollywood, the US Election and Raising Daughters




- talks about producing and acting in the adaptation of liane moriarty's book the husband's secret; says that it's important to portray complicated women in films. she believes it's important for women to produce films and advocate for themselves, but also compliments the men in the industry who are drawn to women's stories or "look at the numbers" and see that these films (like wonder woman) are successful
- says that the 2016 us election made her "more conscious" and "more sensitive" - "not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas—class, gender, race." highlights her work fighting human trafficking: "You see [stories about] only the wealthy, middle-class white girls who’ve been kidnapped. There are people missing all the time, and because they’re minorities, because they come from impoverished neighborhoods, they don’t make the news. That is so devastating."
- discusses the experience of raising daughters without projecting insecurities - doesn't tell them they can achieve anything because she thinks that even bringing it up makes them doubt themselves since "we're all born feeling perfect until somebody tells us we're not." says that the experience has made her more conscious of language. talks about how ryan reynolds is also conscious of this, doesn't like the word bossy being used to describe women.

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was there a political event that made you more conscious and/or sensitive, ontd?

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