Blake Lively talks about romance scenes

Blake Lively has revealed that a romance scene in her latest flick The Town is awkward. The 23-year-old Gossip Girl actress plays a young mum in Ben Affleck's heist flick.

"Everybody is like, 'There's a steamy scene...' And I'm like, 'Really? You have a very dark life that I don't want to ask you about!'" the Mirror quoted her as saying. She said that her scenes with Ben's character are far from sexy.

"It's awkward, it's unromantic and it's also very tragic in a lot of ways because these are two people that hate each other and they're stuck in this rut. It was my first day of shooting and if that's not an ice breaker I don't know what is?" she said.

Blake said she was pleased that the scene wasn't exploitative and showed the darkness in the couple's characters. "It wasn't there to be a gratuitous romance scene for the trailer or to get guys to watch this movie, it's actually a turn off for the audience, everybody around and for us," she said.