Green Lantern’s Blake Lively goes beyond damsel in distress

Blake Lively in "Green Lantern."

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “Gossip Girl” star Blake Lively pilots a jet and runs an aircraft company in “Green Lantern,” so she’s more than a damsel in distress.

Carol Ferris is the love interest of Ryan Reynolds’ Hal Jordan, who becomes Earth’s Green Lantern. But Lively, promoting the film at a recent news conference, said her character goes beyond a typical girlfriend role.

“As a female, I grew up watching these comic films, and I’ve never seen a character like this, where the woman is equal to the man,” she said. “She’s also a fighter pilot; she runs the company that he works for. And I thought it was really cool that, here’s this superhero, but she’s a bit of a real-life hero in her own right. She has the strength and the power of the men that surround her, but she also is able to balance the femininity and be the heart for the man that she loves.”

at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, June 5, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

The character of Ferris was created by writer John Broome and artist Gil Kane and first appeared in the comic book “Showcase” No. 22 in 1959, the same issue that introduced Hal Jordan. Some of Lively’s other characters also have literary antecedents — “Gossip Girl” and “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” were both adapted from books.

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