10 TV Actors Who Hated Their Storylines

10. Blake Lively Hated Serena’s Morals - Gossip Girl

From what we can tell as a public who don’t know her personally, Blake Lively seems like a dream - a really lovely, genuine person. You couldn’t get a more mismatched character for her to play then than high-flying, morally twisted it-girl Serena van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl.

It was only several years after the finale of her fame-making show that Lively spoke out about her disdain for her character’s actions. In particular she felt uncomfortable portraying a character so nonchalant and at times proud of doing terrible things.

“People loved it,” she explained, “But it always felt a little personally compromising… you want to be putting a better message out there.”

Increasingly dramatic and horrific storylines were coming her way, seeing her character cause someone to overdose, sleep with someone’s boyfriend, even shoot a guy. She explained that she came to resent her on-screen self because of what she was promoting to an audience largely made of teen girls - girls who were looking up to Serena as a role model.

Her desire to be a good person was at odds with her character’s dramatic storylines, and with such a young, impressionable audience it’s no wonder she felt it weighed on her conscience.