Blake Lively's Rude Antics In 2016 Interview Made Reporter Want To Quit Her Job
Blake Lively exhibited some Regina George energy in an old interview.
A 2016 conversation in which the “Gossip Girl” alum displayed passive-aggressive behavior toward a reporter is making the rounds on social media this week — and many are describing Lively as a “mean girl.”
Although the discussion was conducted years ago, video of the interview was uploaded to Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa’s YouTube account earlier this month, amid an onslaught of backlash that Lively has received thanks to her weird press tour for the new film “It Ends With Us.”
In a description for the video — titled “The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job” — Flaa wrote that it was “the most uncomfortable interview situation I have ever experienced.”
In addition to Lively, the interview also featured fellow actor Parker Posey, with the two promoting Woody Allen’s 2016 film, “Café Society.”
In the video, Flaa seems to irritate Lively right out of the gate by congratulating the actor on her pregnancy.
“First of all, congrats on your little bump,” Flaa says.
“Congrats on your little bump!” Lively immediately shoots back.
“What about my bump?” Posey asks jokingly while rubbing her butt.
Lively then looks over at Posey with a smile, and the two briefly engage in a silly conversation about “bumps,” appearing to purposely exclude Flaa. Meanwhile, Flaa just sits there and lets out an awkward laugh.
Posey then glances over at Flaa, as if she nearly forgot that someone else was in the room, and asks in a serious tone: “You like the movie? Are you a Woody Allen fan?”
The question seems somewhat thorny. Allen was receiving renewed criticism at the time due to a 2014 open letter that Dylan Farrow, his adoptive daughter, published in The