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It may seem like being in the same industry as your spouse could create unnecessary tension and competition. But according to Blake Lively, the pros of being married to another actor far outweigh the potential cons. While appearing on Good Morning America on Monday to promote her new film All I See Is You, the actress opened up about how being married to Ryan Reynolds has impacted her work.
“In general, it’s nice to have somebody who understands what you’re doing. Especially because our job is so weird—you have to be married to other people, it’s all so strange. It’s never normal, even when we’re both doing it,” she said. “But it’s helpful to know when you’re acting that you’re in a relationship with someone, that that’s not what’s actually happening. Because I have friends who aren’t married to someone who’s in the business, so they’re like, ‘Oh, so you’re not actually making love in that scene?!’ And I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, definitely not.'”
And speaking of vulnerable scenes, earlier this month, the 30-year-old shared that she decided to break her no-nudity rule for All I See Is You, in which she plays a blind woman who regains her sight in her late 20s and soon realizes that her extremely codependent marriage isn’t what it seems. Lively told Vanity Fair that before reading the script for the psychological drama, she had always found onscreen nudity “distracting.” “I’m very in love with my husband, but if there’s a pair of boobs out, I’m a human being! You’re like, ‘boobs!’ It doesn’t mean I’m lusting for them, but when there’s naked boobies, you look at them,” she said.
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The actress opened up about her easygoing relationship with Reynolds in an interview with Glamour earlier this year. “In other relationships, if something came up, I would call my girlfriends or my sister, and say, ‘Hey, this is what he did—what should I do?'” she said. “Where with him, we were friends for two years before we were ever dating. And I treat him like my girlfriend. I’m like, ‘Hey, this happened. It upset me. This is how I feel. What do I do?’ And he does the same for me. He treats me like his best buddy.”
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