Blake Livelyis set to direct her first movie!
TheA Simple Favoractress, 34, will make her feature directorial debut with the upcoming adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s 2014 graphic novelSeconds. O’Malley also wrote the source material that inspired Edgar Wright’s 2010 filmScott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Wright wrote the screenplay and will help produce Lively’sSeconds, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
Lively — who isone of the co-chairs of Monday’s 2022 Met Galaalong with husband Ryan Reynolds — made her first foray into filmmaking when she directed friendTaylor Swift’s recentmusic video for “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version),“which debuted in November and starred Miles Teller.
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Swift, 32, celebrated Lively’s music video directorial debut at the time,writingon Instagram, “I finally got to work with the brilliant, brave, & wickedly funny @blakelively on her directorial debut. Join us as we raise a toast, and a little hell.”
TheGossip Girlalum told PEOPLE in November why it’s “very important” to her for her threedaughters to see her wear multiple hatsas a working mom.
“I want to be as present of a mother as humanly possible and I want them to feel my presence, but I also think the best way to be the best mother is to show them that you can have a life and have a passion and have an identity outside of just being a mother,” she said at the time.
Continued Lively, “I mean, being a mother is completely all-encompassing, and that doesn’t mean there are a lot of mothers who don’t have the opportunity to work as well, but just having your [own] identity is, I think, very important. And teaching them that they can maintain themselves and that everything is possible [is crucial].”
“So it is very important for them to see me working. I bring them along, though. … I bring them everywhere. It’s so inappropriate, but I’m very lucky to be at a job that allows me to do that,” she added.
source: people.com
