Coming off a widely acclaimed performance in last year�s drama �The Town,� Blake Lively now stars as Carol Ferris, Hal Jordan/Green Lantern�s lifelong friend and sometime lover, in Warner Bros.� new action-adventure �Green Lantern.�
�We�ve got explosions and fights and trips to outer space and back, but I love that the movie also has a great sense of fun and a hint of romance about it,� shares Lively. �And the Green Lantern Corps should appeal to women, too - representing virtually every species of alien imaginable, it�s definitely not a men�s-only club.�
A go-getter pilot-turned-businesswoman, Carol has always been by-the-book, enabling her to move up in the ranks at her father�s company, Ferris Aircraft, making her now�Hal�s boss.
�Hal and Carol have a bond that goes back to when they were kids,� Ryan Reynolds relates. �There�s a great deal of history there, both good and bad. There are moments when they�re like magnets flipped the wrong way, pushing off one another, but you can always tell there�s something pulling them together, too.�
�Carol and Hal have an interesting dynamic, and Ryan and I had that same sort of playful banter,� says Lively.
�Blake and Ryan had great chemistry right off the bat,� producer Donald De Line confirms. �They really hit it off and I think that translated nicely onto the screen, whether the characters are in the heat of passion or the heat of battle.�
Lively adds, �Regardless of what they might have felt, or feel, for each other, Hal and Carol have always butted heads. She�s no damsel in distress. Like Hal, she�s a test pilot, and now that she�s about to inherit her father�s company, she�s in a position to really question him. And even after this unbelievable thing happens to him, she challenges him as much as he challenges her. If he can�t believe in himself, she�ll believe in him enough for the both of them. She�s not about to let him walk away from this amazing opportunity.�
�Carol is the alpha female in the film, and she really helps to enrich the story�s emotional spine,� director Martin Campbell asserts. �She�s strong and capable and responsible - everything Hal is not when we first meet him. And Blake truly combined all those qualities in a completely natural way. She was just great.�
Reynolds was not the only one who had to undergo training for the film�s exciting action sequences. Lively also had to prepare to be suspended in mid-air on a Matrix rig for a scene in which Carol is in the grip of a villain�s telekinetic powers.
�We put Blake in this rig and spun her around; she was a really good sport,� stunt coordinator Gary Powell comments. �There�s a lot of trust involved when you�re asking an actor to do some of these stunts - whether it�s hanging from a wire or shooting up into the sky - but everyone was really eager to do whatever they had to do to get it right.�
Opening across the Philippines on June 16 in 3D, 2D and regular format, �Green Lantern� will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
�We�ve got explosions and fights and trips to outer space and back, but I love that the movie also has a great sense of fun and a hint of romance about it,� shares Lively. �And the Green Lantern Corps should appeal to women, too - representing virtually every species of alien imaginable, it�s definitely not a men�s-only club.�
A go-getter pilot-turned-businesswoman, Carol has always been by-the-book, enabling her to move up in the ranks at her father�s company, Ferris Aircraft, making her now�Hal�s boss.
�Hal and Carol have a bond that goes back to when they were kids,� Ryan Reynolds relates. �There�s a great deal of history there, both good and bad. There are moments when they�re like magnets flipped the wrong way, pushing off one another, but you can always tell there�s something pulling them together, too.�
�Carol and Hal have an interesting dynamic, and Ryan and I had that same sort of playful banter,� says Lively.
�Blake and Ryan had great chemistry right off the bat,� producer Donald De Line confirms. �They really hit it off and I think that translated nicely onto the screen, whether the characters are in the heat of passion or the heat of battle.�
Lively adds, �Regardless of what they might have felt, or feel, for each other, Hal and Carol have always butted heads. She�s no damsel in distress. Like Hal, she�s a test pilot, and now that she�s about to inherit her father�s company, she�s in a position to really question him. And even after this unbelievable thing happens to him, she challenges him as much as he challenges her. If he can�t believe in himself, she�ll believe in him enough for the both of them. She�s not about to let him walk away from this amazing opportunity.�
�Carol is the alpha female in the film, and she really helps to enrich the story�s emotional spine,� director Martin Campbell asserts. �She�s strong and capable and responsible - everything Hal is not when we first meet him. And Blake truly combined all those qualities in a completely natural way. She was just great.�
Reynolds was not the only one who had to undergo training for the film�s exciting action sequences. Lively also had to prepare to be suspended in mid-air on a Matrix rig for a scene in which Carol is in the grip of a villain�s telekinetic powers.
�We put Blake in this rig and spun her around; she was a really good sport,� stunt coordinator Gary Powell comments. �There�s a lot of trust involved when you�re asking an actor to do some of these stunts - whether it�s hanging from a wire or shooting up into the sky - but everyone was really eager to do whatever they had to do to get it right.�
Opening across the Philippines on June 16 in 3D, 2D and regular format, �Green Lantern� will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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