While promoting Ben Affleck's new crime thriller, The Town, Lively spoke to MTV about playing the female lead in Martin Cambell's Green Lantern adaptation..
"With all of the special effects, you're in a big sound stage with blue walls, and the world that you're acting opposite will be created months after you're finished shooting. To watch that will be a very different experience, because I don't know half of what I'm going to see. That's so exciting, seeing the visual arts, and all of the amazing effects and characters that they're creating. I cannot wait to see it, because that's one of the most important elements in our story."
So will Carol Ferris be your typical love interest, waiting for the super hero to come save her?
Playing women with strengths are the characters I'm most attracted to. Being in a superhero movie opposite such amazing actors and an incredible director, and not just being a damsel in distress but a fighter pilot and [Hal's] boss at the company."
From a fans perspective, by far the most interesting thing about Ferris is that in the Green Lantern comics she eventually becomes Hal Jordan's enemy, Starsaphire. There has been speculation as to whether we would get to see that change come over her at any point in this movie, but Lively suggests that although we could see a hint of it, we will have to wait until one of the planned sequels to see her don the skimpy purple outfit!..
"There are always winks and homages to certain things in the comics for the fans, but I don't think you'll know yet how evil she turns,..Not yet."
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