Blake Lively has a box of chocolates. As I enter into the junket room, before the interview is set to begin, I comment on what a nice collection of chocolates it seems to be. She graciously offers me one. I graciously refuse. She leans back, smiles and confides that she’s really happy I didn’t take her up on the offer. She wants all the chocolates for herself. This leads into a two-minute discussion on the “fake offer” - when you offer someone some small gesture/thing out of politeness; but don’t really actually want to do/give it to them. I explain - I do this all the time. It would have been rude of me to take her up on the offer (i.e. eat a stranger’s chocolate). I’m actually fairly sure there’s a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode about this very dilemma. The cameras haven’t even begun to roll during all of this and I can tell the publicists are getting anxious to start the bloody interview, the junket fairly behind schedule at this point already. And so we begin…
What follows is a fairly loose interview with Blake Lively and her co-star Michiel Huisman that somehow runs the gamut from Huisman’s one-day gig as a bartender to Logan’s Run jumpsuits to acid rain before somehow ending on the merits of the Harrison Ford-Anne Heche romance Six Days, Seven Nights (which none of us can remember the name of whilst filming). There’s also talk of The Age of Adaline smuggled in here - which is actually a rather good small-scale romance and features a career best performance from Lively. The actress stars as the titular Adaline, who after a freak accident, has never aged past twenty-nine in over a hundred years. Now in the modern era, she finds love with a rich philanthropist (Michiel Huisman); but must decide whether such a relationship can be sustained given what the ravages of time will do to him and not her. The picture co-stars Kathy Baker, Ellen Burstyn and Harrison Ford (who’s pretty terrific as Adaline’s former flame and Huisman’s father). For the full interview, watch below.
Blake Lively & Michiel Huisman Index:
Blake Lively and Michiel Huisman on the worst job they had before becoming actors
On what time period they would prefer to live in
On what their ideal dystopia would be
On their favorite Harrison Ford roles
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