Celebrities are just like that us – they even have difficulty maintaining work/life balance.
Blake Lives opened up about how he sometimes struggles to give equal attention to his career and his life. “When you’re at work, sometimes you feel guilty for not being in your personal life when you’re at work,” she said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Monday, August 5. “And, when you’re at work, you feel guilty for being interrupted by wanting to be in your private life.”
The balancing act is something Lively, 36, shares with him It Ends with Us costar Jenny Slate. “We both really enjoy our personal lives and we enjoy our work and we enjoy our work, and we take it seriously and work hard,” he said. “And we immerse ourselves in our work. But who we are is defined by our personal life more than our work, and we can be both at the same time.
Lively has four children – daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, and Betty, 4, and son Olin, born in 2023 – with her husband, Ryan Reynolds. Slate, 42, shares daughter Ida, 3, with her husband, Ben Shattuck.
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Know this Slate is going through the same experience It Ends with Us The set is something Lively says is “very grounding.” He continued: “Two things are true. We can love our work and our work can be very important to us and we can be everything in our work. We can also (live) personally and it can be important to us and it can be there.
Lively’s career and personal life recently came together in Reynolds’ new film, Deadpool & Wolverine. She provided the voice for the female version of Deadpool, called Ladypool, while Inez and Olin took on the roles of Kidpool and Babypool, respectively. James is credited as the “screaming mutant”, while Betty is listed in the credits as Hugh Jackman’s “wrangler”.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively
Gotham/GC imagesLast month, Reynolds, 47, said he was open to growing his family with Lively. “Be more lively. As much as possible,” he joked E! News on July 22. “It’s a small heartbeat, just walking around, destroying things around the house. I like it. Let’s do more!”
During the July 30 episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, Reynolds also revealed that her children “can’t even sleep unless they’re in bed,” adding, “As I said, ‘I like to spread out and sleep normally, I don’t hold back.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds enjoy spending time with friends and family when they are not busy with their own careers. His friendship with Taylor Swift has been in the headlines for years. After Lively met Swift in 2015, the actress and her husband celebrated the 4th of July at Swift’s wedding in 2016. (…)
Lively and Reynolds work life recently intersected again as It Ends with Us and Deadpool & Wolverine refers to the same composer of music. “Wait until you hear @rob_simonsen’s score, yes @deadpoolmovie composer,” Lively wrote in an Instagram story Friday, August 2. “My husband and I are more than children.”
It Ends with Us hits theaters on August 9.
