Blake Lively spent the late 2000s and early 2010s starring in “Gossip Girl.” However, her first major role was actually in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.”
During a 2005 interview with Movie Web, Lively recalled how she ended up landing the audition. “My whole family’s been in the business,” said Lively. “I’ve been so busy with high school and I’m in all the clubs there, I’m in all AP classes, I’ve been in cheer, choir, and class president so my past four years at high school have been very busy. I left prom last night to come here.” Despite her packed schedule, her actor brother, Eric Lively, pulled a few strings for her. “But my brother knew how much I would love it and he called his agent who called me up one day because they were kind of pressured into it and they set me up on some auditions and after a very short amount of time I got this movie.”
After landing her monumental role, Lively treated herself to a little bling. “It was when I got my first job, ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,’ and it was like, what are you going to do for yourself that will be something that will last for your lifetime?” Lively shared with Entertainment Tonight during a Tiffany & Co. event in 2023. “I bought the ball bracelet,” she continued. “I couldn’t afford the one with the heart. I might have had a knockoff of that when I was in sixth grade, but we don’t talk about that,” she added.
