Blake Lively: Hollywood is sexist

Blake Lively thinks men are given better opportunities than women in the film industry. The Green Lantern actress — who shot to fame after starring in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants at the age of 16 — has a long list of actors she looks up to, but insists she doesn’t envy anyone else’s career.

“People always ask me whose career I admire and I always answer with men. Which is not to say that there aren’t incredible women in this business, but I feel like men are still given much better opportunities,” she said.

“I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can’t look at one person’s life and say, ‘I want that life.’ I want to make my own history.

“I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it’s going to work out. Because even if other people don’t like what you’re doing, you’re happy because you did what you believed in.”

The blonde beauty also revealed she didn’t have her heart set on an acting career from a young age.

“I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn’t like, ‘This is the career that I want to pursue’,” she said.

“So when I first started acting, I was more concerned with just being on a set and all of the woes of that, and I didn’t really know it or understand it as a craft yet.”

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