Blake Lively refused to be blonde in The Green Lantern

Blake Lively insisted on giving up her blonde bombshell looks for comic book movie The Green Lantern. The sexy Gossip Girl star says she was given the option to keep her natural hair color for the role of superhero love interest but decided to do the right thing for all the geeks out there.

“There was some debate as to whether my character could be blonde but I was like, ‘Absolutely not. Carol Ferris is a brunette in the comic books and so I must be a brunette.

“Green Lantern is one of the longest running comic books of all time and I was very aware of that. Even on set I could feel all the fans watching me expectantly so there was a lot of pressure to get it right.”

Lively recently revealed how she got into shape for the new comic book flick.

“I had very few stunts to do in this film, but they required a lot of core strength,” explains Blake.

“I trained on this thing called the Matrix rig. It’s a 40-foot-long arm that’s about 30 feet in the air with this gyroscopic waist belt. The first time they put you up in it, you go crazy but it’s the best workout in the world because you’re using muscles that you don’t normally use.

“I was shooting in New Orleans, which has just some of the greatest food on the planet. I had two kitchens and I love to cook and I love to eat so training became something that was good. Otherwise I might have looked like Violet Beauregard (from Willy Wonka) instead of Carol Ferris.”