Ahead of 'The Rhythm Section,' looking at the roles the actress has taken post-'Gossip Girl'
Like so many contemporary stars, Blake Lively first made a name for herself playing teenagers. In the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies and on Gossip Girl for over 100 episodes, she was the picture of All-American youthful blondeness, despite being at least 20 for most of her screen time. Lively was also the star of a hit TV show at a time when many stars of hit TV shows gave up the ghost on the time-honored tradition of attempting a major movie career.
If most of her movies aren't explicitly about the aging process, they do often grapple with what comes after youth. In The Age of Adaline, she plays the title character, a woman frozen as her 27-year-old self; time moves forward, but she stays the same age. In the comic mystery A Simple Favor, she's a glamorous young mother, toying with the convention that actresses skip from ingénue to mom to sassy grandma at an accelerated pace.
Remoteness is part of Lively's persona, though, she's not naturally, openly emotive; even in Adaline or Favor, her approximations of old Hollywood melodrama, there's something opaque and unknowable about her, a serene confidence that sometimes lets her costume designers do some work. The Shallows lets her open up—but specifically as a solo act, stranded alone as a shark circles hungrily.
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