12 Little Known Facts About Blake Lively

Blake Lively has done her fair share of risqué projects, from the saucy sex of «Gossip Girl» to films like «Savages» and «The Town,» but she had a steadfast rule about doing nudity, telling Vanity Fair, «I always find nudity distracting.» She’s been vocal about how uncomfortable sex scenes made her feel in the past, due to the presence of crew members or the intense intimacy required of actors in even brief scenes.

However, Lively’s rule was ultimately put to the test when she was approached for Marc Forster’s 2016 drama «All I See Is You.» In the film, Lively plays Gina, a blind woman who recovers her sight via surgery, to the detriment of her relationship with her husband, played by Jason Clarke. Due to the character’s recovery of her vision, Gina rediscovering her sexuality was an important part of the story, and Forster allegedly did not want to shoot the film without the script’s nude scenes. 

While Lively initially read the script to see if she’d be interested enough to try convincing the director to take out the nudity, she ended up loving it and agreed to be a part of the film as Forster envisioned it. Thankfully, Lively’s husband is also an actor, so he understood the awkwardness that comes from having to perform intimate scenes with other actors.