Blake Lively: 'Being naked wasn't weird'

Blake Lively has revealed what it was like lying naked on top of Alan Arkin.

The Gossip Girl actress, who stars in Rebecca Miller's drama The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, has insisted that filming a nude scene with Arkin "didn't make it any weirder" than usual.

The 22-year-old told Parade: "Apparently naked, not fully naked. I was lying partially naked on Alan Arkin, but strategic body parts were covered.

"It's always scary when you're in front of strangers half-naked, but the fact that it was with Alan, honestly, didn't make it any weirder. I think being with a young dude would have been more awkward because I might have been like, 'Well, does he think I look cute right now?'"

Blake also said that it was "exciting" to film the more reckless stage of her character's life because she has never experienced being "dark and wild" in real life.

She added: "Pippa does get very dark. Like, that was me on a dog leash being led around for a photo shoot by Julianne Moore, who plays a lesbian photographer.

"It sounds bizarre, but it was exciting for me because I never really went through that dark and wild stage, so to get to explore that in the safety of a movie set was great."

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is to be released in the US on November 27.