The actress credits her husband Ryan Reynolds for helping her learn to appreciate it.
Blake Lively learned an appreciation for her middle name.
In an interview with MTV UK to promote her latest film, It Ends with Us, Lively, 36, and her co-star Isabela Ferrer disclosed that it was not until she encountered her husband, Ryan Reynolds, that she developed a fondness for the name her mother had bestowed upon her.
“Oh my God, you’ve said it before,” Ferrer said in an Instagram clip shared by the music television network, trying her best to think of Lively’s non-traditional middle name.
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“Have I? I don’t really talk about it much,” Lively responded.
Lively started to provide Ferrer with hints to assist her in recollecting as she observed her costar struggle to do so: “If you write diary entries, it is the first part of my middle name.”
“Ellen? Your middle name is Ellen?” Ferrer asked.
The film is based on the 2016 novel of the same name, in which Lily Bloom (played by Ferrer and Lively at different periods) frequently writes to Ellen DeGeneres in her diary entries. She enhance her look with flowers, feathers, and flairs at the promotions of It Ends with us.
Ferrer was on the right track by assuming “half of it,” despite not being entirely accurate with the name.
Ferrer blurted out, “Elenor?” before Lively could provide any further information. “Elenora?”
With Ferrer still guessing to no avail, Lively said, “Yeah, kind of, but with a ‘D.’ ”
“It’s not a name. My mom, I think, made it up by accident,” she added after seeing Ferrer still appearing to be confused. “It’s not a word, it doesn’t exist,” Lively assured her.
After incorrectly guessing “Delanor,” Lively finally caved in and told Ferrer that her middle name is “Ellender.”
However, Ferrer incorrectly compared it to Professor Dumbledore of Harry Potter fame when it came to the appropriate pronunciation.
“I’m not Dumbledore, it’s Ellender,” Lively said with a laugh. “Though Dumbledore honestly [would] probably [be] a better option.”
Lively acknowledged that her middle name had always caused her confusion during her childhood.
“So, I always hated it,” she said during the interview, pausing to look at the camera and apologize “if there’s any Ellenders watching this.”
“But my husband loved it, which made me like it more,” Lively said.
Reynolds, 47, believed that his wife’s distinctive name sounded similar to “lavender,” as per Lively.
An enthusiastic Ferrer interrupted, concurring that the name bore a regal ring and that it did sound similar to the plant.
“It sounds very elegant and graceful,” Ferrer said, adding that the name sounded “royal” as if she should be called “Lady Ellender III.”
It Ends with Us is currently playing in theaters.
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