Lively hasn’t had quite the same rise as J-Law following the show’s end, but she did end up meeting her husband Ryan Reynolds during Green Lantern, and who knows if that would’ve happened had she not gotten the role of Serena.
Lively also had the star power going into the series that Jennifer Lawrence lacked with prominent film roles in Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants and Accepted.
It’s also not like the girl she lost the Gossip Girl role to is chopped liver either, as Blake Lively is a big part of the success the series celebrated for five years.