‘Pretentious’ Blake Lively ridiculed for saying she laughs ‘the hardest’ at ‘Shawshank Redemption’
nypost.comdeals with backlash over her “tone deaf” approach to promoting her new movie, she’s being mocked online for something she said in her “Vogue 73 Questions” interview from 10 years ago that has resurfaced.In the video from July 2014, Lively, 37, was asked a series of fast-paced questions by an interviewer, and one of her answers has social media in shock.The journalist asked Lively which “movie you laughed the hardest through.”“Shawshank Redemption,” she nonchalantly responded.
The interviewer briefly laughed out loud before he moved onto the next question. It was an unexpected moment when Lively name-dropped the 1994 prison film as the movie that is funniest to her.The film follows a banker (Tim Robbins) who is sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife and her lover, despite claiming that he’s innocent.
He befriends a fellow prisoner (Morgan Freeman) and gets involved in a money laundering scheme behind bars.In the midst of the “It Ends With Us” drama, Lively’s odd answer in the “Vogue” interview went viral on TikTok, prompting fans to call the actress out — again.“I don’t think blake and I saw the same shawshank redemption,” one fan said in the comments.“The Shawshank Redemption?
I cried watching it,” another person said. “She’s the kind of person where she’s always kidding so there’s no real answer given and so you’re just sitting there like… sooo wait what is it actually,” someone else wrote.
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