Blake Lively Is Brought Up During Penn Badgley’s ‘Call Her Daddy’ Interview
Blake Lively was mentioned in Penn Badgley‘s “Call Her Daddy” interview.
If you don’t know, the Gossip Girl co-stars dated from 2007-2010 while their characters on the show, Serena and Dan, were also linked.
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During the interview, host Alex Cooper asked Penn, “You were dating Blake Lively, you were dating Serena on the show. Did you feel like you were able to separate your actual job from your reality and actually able to grow in your twenties or did it all feel like it was kind of merged?”
Penn responded, “I mean, that’s a great question because it was the struggle. You know, the difference between, there are many differences between film and television. One of them is that when you do a film, you do it once…and you kind of give it your all, and then you move on whether you want to or not…When you do a television show, you’re doing it constantly.”
He continued, “Because of the nature of that show and because of celebrity culture at that time especially….I remember suddenly the influx of interviews being asked about like, I remember doing something for, you know, Cosmo Girl or something…I remember doing interviews for those kinds of publications and being asked about…dating advice…I remember just the feeling of not knowing, it’s this thing. You feel like you’re constantly, even though no one may be actually asking you to do this, you feel like you’re constantly needing to prove yourself in some manner. Otherwise, what are you doing?”
He added, “And so what starts to happen when you’re in this one role for a long time, you know, the aspect of celebrity being a part of it, a huge part of it. There is not enough separation, I think, for anybody. You’re seen as this person, you’re called their name out on the street. You also constantly have to be that person at work, and I was 20. I was 21, 22, so I didn’t have the emotional maturity to understand, to differentiate myself just in terms of self-worth….Dan seemed to be what people thought of me, and now, I had enough sense, enough intelligence, enough self-worth enough, you know, like I wasn’t losing myself, but it bothered me.”
If you didn’t see, Penn revealed the gift Blake got him when they first started dating that he did not want.
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