Even though she says that her latest movie, All I See Is You, is "the performance I'm most proud of," so far in her career, Blake Lively almost didn't even read the script for the film.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the actress and former Gossip Girl opened up about how she and her team almost passed on her All I See Is You role — in which she plays a blind woman who regains her sight via a miraculous surgery — because of her no-nudity rule.
"I thought, well, [director Marc Forster] is not unmoving," Lively told Vanity Fair. "Let me read it, and if it's great, then I'll talk him out of it."
But apparently, she fell in love with the script so much that she agreed to do it, nude scene and all — and it even changed her mind about about filming nude.
"I always find nudity distracting," she added. "I’m very in love with my husband, but if there’s a pair of boobs out, I’m a human being! You’re like 'boobs!' It doesn't mean I’m lusting for them, [but] when there’s naked boobies, you look at them."
I mean, she makes a fair point. In addition to filming a partially nude scene for the first time, the movie also reportedly challenged her with 19-hour days filming and consulting with blind friends in order to get her character right — basically making it, "the most intense film I'd ever been on." It definitely sounds like it. All I See Is You hits theaters October 27th.