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Blake Lively tackles blindness in new complex film role

Blake Lively tackles blindness in new complex film role

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK: To play a blind woman for her latest film role, Blake Lively took no short cuts into the darkness. The 30-year-old actress learned to use a walking cane, wore opaque contact lenses off-camera to better understand her character and learned how to navigate the main set without her vision. Lively stars in 'All I See Is You,' a dreamy, beautiful movie about a woman who lost her eyesight in a car accident as an adolescent, but regains her vision through surgery in her 20s. She begins a period of self-discovery, which threatens to upend her life and marriage. Says Lively: 'This movie speaks to relationships, I think, whether we have the literal blindness or it's just figurative.'