Brutal enforcer Lado (BENICIO DEL TORO) tries to intimidate O (BLAKE LIVELY) in “Savages.” ©Universal Studios.
By ANGELA DAWSON
Front Row Features
HOLLYWOOD—Blake Lively burst onto the Hollywood scene in 2005’s big screen adaptation of the perky young adult novel “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” She went out to become a household name playing Upper East Side socialite Serena Van Der Woodsen on “Gossip Girl,” also based on a series of young adult novels.
Now the lovely Lively gets down and dirty as a pot-addicted poor little rich girl, who gets caught up in a brutal drug war in Oliver Stone’s “Savages,” based on Don Winslow’s bestselling novel. (The rest of this article is available only to frontrowfeatureswire.com subscribers. For subscription information, contact frontrowfeatures@gmail.com.)
