Blake Lively Wears 2002 Britney Spears Versace Dress at 'It Ends With Us' Premiere | THR News Video
Blake Lively is channeling her inner Britney Spears! The actress stepped out to the world premiere of her new film, 'It Ends With Us,' at New York's AMC Lincoln Square theater last night wearing the same glittering Versace dress worn by Spears in 2002. The Versace dress is a one-shoulder evening dress crafted with all-over embroidery and shades of pastels, a dress fit for her character Lily Bloom.
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00:00Blake Lively is channeling her inner Britney Spears.
00:03The actress stepped out to the world premiere of her new film, It Ends With Us,
00:07at New York's AMC Lincoln Square Theatre last night,
00:10wearing the same glittering Versace dress worn by Spears in 2002.
00:15The Versace dress is a one-shoulder evening dress crafted with all-over embroidery and
00:19shades of pastels, a dress fit for the character of Lily Bloom.
00:23According to Tab Vintage, Lively purchased the dress from the shop's archives.
00:27The mother of four took to Instagram stories earlier in the day to praise the superstar singer
00:32as the ultimate queen who made us all want to sparkle and write and share our stories.
00:37Spears wore the dress while attending Versace's Spring and Summer Women's 2003
00:42Collection presentation in Milan. Lively added,
00:44Britney, us millennials all have a story of a moment or of years that you made us
00:48want to shine and inspire awe with strength and joy and immensely hard work.
00:53Thank you for your example and your contribution to women telling their stories.
00:57So excited about your biopic and all you have to come.
01:00Universal is readying a feature film project based on Spears' best-selling The Woman in Me memoir
01:05with director John M. Chu.
01:07Directed by Justin Baldoni and based on the novel by Colleen Hoover,
01:10It Ends With Us casts Lively as Lily Bloom, a woman who opens a flower shop in Boston,
01:15only to fall for a neurosurgeon, played by Baldoni, who may not be the man of her dreams.
01:21Lively also spoke to THR about addressing some of the heavy topics in the on-screen adaptation.
01:27The work that I did on screen was easier than the work that I did off screen
01:31in this movie because of all that went into it.
01:33So I really look at the, I love a challenge though and I'm just so proud of every bit of it.
01:38We, you know, we went through a whole roller coaster of the human experience and I just,
01:42I'm very proud.
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