Blake Lively has learned to appreciate her middle name.
Speaking to MTV UK to promote her new film It ends with us with her co-star Isabela Ferrer, Lively, 36, revealed that it wasn’t until later in life, when she met her husband Ryan Reynolds, that she learned to love the nickname her mother gave her.
“Oh my God, you already said that,” Ferrer said in an Instagram clip shared by the music television network, trying her best to remember Lively’s non-traditional middle name.
“Am I? I don’t really talk about it much,” Lively replied.
Seeing her costar struggling to remember, Lively began giving Ferrer hints to help her figure it out: “If you keep a diary [it’s] the first part of my middle name.”
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“Ellen? Is your middle name Ellen?” Ferrer asked.
In the 2016 novel of the same name, on which the film is based, Lily Bloom (played by both Ferrer and Lively at different times) often writes to Ellen DeGeneres in her diary entries.
While not 100% correct on the name, Ferrer was on the right track by guessing “half of it”.
Before Lively could give another clue, Ferrer blurted out, “Elenor? Eleanor?”
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As Ferrer continued to guess in vain, Lively said, “Yeah, kind of, but with a ‘D’.” ”
“That’s not a name. I think my mom made that up by accident,” she added after seeing Ferrer still look confused. “That’s not a word, that doesn’t exist,” Lively assured her.
After incorrectly guessing “Delanor,” Lively finally relented and told Ferrer that her middle name was “Ellender.”
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But next came how to pronounce it correctly – to which Ferrer mistakenly compared him to Professor Dumbledore Harry Potter glory.
“I’m not Dumbledore, it’s Ellender,” Lively said with a laugh. “Though Dumbledore honestly [would] probably [be] better option.”
Lively admitted that growing up she was always “confused” by her middle name.
“So, I’ve always hated it,” she said during the interview, pausing to look into the camera and apologize “if any of the Ellenders are watching this.”
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“But my husband liked it, which made me like it even more,” Lively said.
According to Lively, Reynolds, 47, thought his wife’s unique name sounded like “lavender.”
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An excited Ferrer chimed in, agreeing that it “really” sounded similar to the plant, adding that the name had a regal tone to it.
“It sounds very elegant and graceful,” said Ferrer, adding that the name sounded “royal” as if she should be called “Lady Ellender III”.
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