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The world is obsessed with Blake Lively. This bit of intel shouldn’t shock the lads, who ranked the lanky flaxen-haired actress as number 13 in Maxim’s 2012 Hot 100. Rabid fashionistas also know full well the power of Lively’s classic California beauty, obsessively blogging about her rise from a television starlet to a Chanel model who calls Christian Louboutin a buddy.
Of course, any pop-culture devotee with an intact brain stem knows Lively as a tabloid mainstay, thanks to squires ranging from Penn Badgely to Leo DiCaprio to, currently, Green Lantern costar Ryan Reynolds. At presstime, the online stories on Lively’s romance with Reynolds numbered upwards of 4,000.
Still, one person has no inkling we’re all living on Planet Lively. And that is Blake Lively. “What’s that?” she asks when told, apparently for the first time, that there’s this thing called the Maxim Hot 100. “Did I make it? Is that good? Awesome! I can tell that to my kids one day.”
Now is when jaded journalists might roll their eyes: Come on—is she acting, or what? It’s not an unfair question. Lively may be a 24-year-old sylph with a closetful of Louboutins, but she can act, even if the reviewers are loath to admit it. “Everyone in The Town shines, even Blake Lively,” New York magazine declared after watching her in the 2010 ensemble drama. For her latest project, a blip of an indie flick called Hick, the New York Times begrudgingly dubbed Lively “surprisingly good.”

Photoshoots: 2012: Session 3
Lively plays a young woman named O who bears a butterfly-and-barbed-wire tattoo and a magazine rack’s worth of issues. She also has a pair of boyfriends who are partners in a booming marijuana business. When the guys run afoul of the drug-lord matriarch played by Hayek, O is torn from her home—by del Toro in a skeleton mask, no less—then imprisoned, raped, tortured and left to wonder if she will survive.
“Listen, she more than holds her own,” says Savages co-screenwriter and executive producer Shane Salerno. “There’s a reason she’s at the center of the poster for this movie. She’s probably the most interesting kidnap victim you’ve ever seen. It’s usually a forgettable kind of role, but she found a way to bring strength and color to it, and you just don’t see that in summer action thrillers.”
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