HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Blake Lively is looking to take more risks in her career.
The 23-year-old Gossip Girl star admits she's been playing it "safe" so far, but has hopes of taking on more juicy roles in the future.
"I'm on a very commercial show, so the last thing I want to do is a commercial movie," Lively explains in the October issue of the U.K.'s Marie Claire. "I wanna take risks, I don't wanna play it safe. I mean, I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects. It would be nice to buy an apartment but I'm 22 and I don't need to yet"
She adds, "I live in New York City. So, I'm able to differentiate between what I want and need and what I want more is to do great roles."
One such role will be in The Town, the Ben Affleck film in which she plays a drug-addicted single mother. The role required her to shoot a steamy sex scene with Affleck.
While Lively wants to take more risks professionally, she admits to playing it safe at home with boyfriend Penn Badgley.
"At the end of the day, you're just in any relationship," she says of dating her Gossip Girl co-star. "How does anybody go to work every day and come home? You just do it and it either works or it doesn't."
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