Drug use, heavy eye-shadow, hot pink tank tops, daisy dukes and a heavy Boston accent - these were just a few of the things that helped Gossip Girl poster girl Blake Lively break out of her typecast mold in last year's The Town. Rather than strut around New York or Paris with a designer handbag in tow, Lively inhabited The Town as a broken and luckless girl desperate for another life - and although not revelatory, it was exciting to watch a young actress handle a script so far from her perceived comfort zone.
Thus, it is with a heavy heart we must report that Lively will next appear on the big screen in this summer's blockbuster, Green Lantern, as the protagonist's love interest. Yes, Blake Lively is the latest victim of Hollywood's "it" girl problem.
The "it" girl problem summarizes the long-standing, but ever more noticeable, almost predetermined career trajectory of in-demand, young actresses. It goes beyond the clich
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