Blake Lively: 'Playing Serena is absurd'

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Updated: 2009-11-18 09:37
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Blake Lively: 'Playing Serena is absurd'

Blake Lively has described playing Serena Van Der Woodsen in Gossip Girl as "absurd".

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The actress explained that she wears the same clothes as her character, so that when she is working on outrageous scenes she still looks like herself.

"I dress just like Serena," she told Nylon. "I own half her wardrobe, so it's far too similar to the way I dress. I feel ridiculous at times with her because I'm, you know, killing someone or marrying someone, but I look like me. I'm like, 'Oh, this is absurd'."

Lively added that she often feels other people's suffering too much.

"I get really bad stomach aches all the time," she explained. "So I went to a doctor, and he said, 'You're a feeler'. I take on people's pain a little too much."