Here’s a quick interview Blake did with the Evening Standard Magazine about her “London experience” – hopefully we will get to see more of Blake in the London and Europe in the future.

Home is…

New York. I live in Manhattan.

Where do you stay in London?

I’ve never found the one place to stay but I saw a hotel on the Goop website called Blakes that I really want to try.

Last show you saw?

Rent in the West End, which at the time had Caprice in it. It was very funny watching a musical about New York and the Lower East Side with the cast all speaking in British accents.

First thing you do when you arrive?

Go to the Hat-Gallery M/V on Earl’s Court Road. It has such beautiful, interesting pieces, some of which I would buy but never actually wear. When I’m back in New York I get the staff to send me photos because I love the hats so much.

Which animal would you most like to be?

A bird, because it would be amazing to fly.

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WWW.ETONLINE.COM - Gossip Girl star Blake Lively is a force to be reckoned with on the red carpet, where the genetically gifted 25-year-old often polarizes critics with her daringly high-fashion looks — but does she ever regret any of her always memorable choices?

ET’s Brooke Anderson sat down with Blake to talk about being the face of Gucci’s Première, the iconic fashion brand’s signature female fragrance, where she also opened up about some of her most talked-about style moments!

One gown in particular that sealed Blake’s status as a fashion icon was her infamous deep-plunging, body-hugging red Versace gown she sported at the 2009 Emmys, which had plenty of jaws dropping.

“Oh my gosh, that was a very tricky outfit,” Blake smiles. “I’m actually a pretty shy person and that outfit was a very daring outfit. It was a very windy day, so you have to go and feel like [and] think of somebody else. I’ve said before, I thought of Marilyn Monroe. How would she feel if she were walking out there? It’s like playing a character, and it’s so fun to wear that because that’s a dress I’d see and be like, ‘I love that. I wish I had the nerve to wear that!’ So that was an empowering look.”

Interesting enough, Blake is one of the few Hollywood starlets who doesn’t have a stylist (even more unbelievable given that she has landed such enviable fashion campaigns as Gucci and Chanel), so she shares that she’ll never feel bad about any fashion “mistakes.”

“I think that if you believe that you can’t make a mistake as long as you feel good in it, then you have a sort of freedom,” she says. “You’re never going to have 100 percent of the people loving what you wore — you’re always going to have people split on it. So as long as you look back and you said, ‘I felt really proud to wear that that night — I felt really good about myself,’ then that’s all that really matters.”

Blake did an interview that was part of promoting the Gucci Premiere fragrance a little earlier. Be sure to check the video out below !

MarieClaire.com – Gossip Girl and Savages star Blake Lively was our July cover girl, with a shoot that was almost as fierce as her bubbly personality. We discussed just about everything with the blonde beauty, except, you guessed it, iPhone apps. We got the scoop from her with apps that handle everything from food to fashion. Check out her picks and what she has to say about them:

Hipstamatic: “This is my most used app! It turns normal photos into art. As a foodie and cook, I especially appreciate the Loftus lens. People can’t believe the images are captured from an iPhone. The quality is truly superb.”

Martha Stewart Everyday Food: Fresh & Easy Recipes: “Anything Martha does is magic. I use this as a daily dose of inspiration.”

iTunes U: “Tunes U is a full education on the go. You can download course content from universities like Yale and Stanford, or art institutions like MoMa. It has everything from French courses to Spanish history. It’s incredible to have such vast access to any subject I’m interested in right there in my pocket.”

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Here’s another Savages interview of Blake and co-star Salma Hayek !

NEW YORK – If you belong to a certain tier of the Hollywood A-list, you don’t get to know each other in Starbucks over iced lattes.

Take Salma Hayek and Blake Lively. The magnetic Mexican Oscar nominee and the foxy flaxen-haired California girl first met at a dinner thrown by Vogue editorAnna Wintour. At that point, last summer, Lively was already attached to Oliver Stone’s moody, violent drug drama Savages. Hayek had been approached by Stone, but nothing was official, so no one, not even her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, knew she might do the film. And she didn’t bring it up at the soiree.

“I wanted to talk to you, but I wasn’t hired,” says Hayek to Lively. “Oliver had talked to me about it and said he wrote it for me but didn’t offer me the job. I wanted to ask Blake, ‘Did he mention me to you?’ Some of the financing came from France, and people were telling Francois that I was in an Oliver Stone movie. He said, ‘You’re doing an Oliver Stone movie and you didn’t mention it to me?’ I didn’t know about it! It was very funny.”

So they danced around the topic, without ever broaching it. “I wasn’t going to mention it. I wanted to talk to Salma about it, too, because I have a relationship with two men, but our relationship is the most intimate in the film,” recalls Lively.

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Many male faces grace the poster of Oliver Stone‘s Savages, but the two who hold the most power throughout the film are Blake Lively and Salma Hayek. Both of their characters struggle to stay afloat in a world filled with drugs, betrayal and violence. The story follows O (Lively), a carefree girl from Southern California who’s the lover of profitable pot growers Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch). Unfortunately, their paradise is short-lived when a drug cartel, headed by the powerful and vicious Elena (Hayek) comes in and kidnaps O. Only then, does the struggle for dominance between the two men and the Mexican drug cartel begin.

A couple weeks ago, we talked with Hayek and Lively about getting into their roles, their research and working with a veteran director like Oliver Stone.

Salma, we’re used to seeing drug lords portrayed as macho men. Not only is your character a woman, but she has lots of layers. Did that come from the book, or was it something you brought to the role?

Salma Hayek: The character was much smaller in the book. That was Oliver [Stone], who started the whole process. He was incredibly generous because we really did work as a team, all of us. He really welcomes your input on the character. He actually will not like you, if you do not have something to give. He wants you fight with him, and he wants you to bring something to the plate. We worked really well together, designing the character, but it originated from him. He made that character a little bit more interesting than in the book. I think he did that with all of the characters.
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