Gossip Girl star Blake Lively is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of W magazine … and while some think that Blake looks patriotic on the cover, clutching the US flag, I think she looks more superhero-like … very Wonder Womanly. Here is Blake‘s W cover, a few photos from her spread and a portion of her interview:

Blake Lively is a starving artist. “I’m hungry. You hungry? Let’s meet at Sant Ambroeus,” she says, by way of cell phone introduction. Within minutes she’s stepping out of a taxi, an endless stream of legs and golden hair. The pint-size ristorante in New York’s West Village is, on a Saturday afternoon, predictably packed with the type of diners who are too cool to freak out about the numero uno Gossip Girl but not so jaded that they don’t notice her. Over the course of the next hour and a half, only a mother and her trembling tween daughter openly fawn over Lively. Sure, a guy at the next table chats her up, but that’s only because he really, really needs to know if he should order the eggplant appetizer that the gorgeous 21-year-old is digging into with gusto … A tight-knit bunch, the Lively clan also includes a talent manager mom, two older sisters and two older brothers—all of whom are connected to the entertainment industry in some manner. “My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class,” Lively recalls. “And I’m a naturally shy person, so it really helped. I would’ve just been hiding under the table, pulling on my mother’s dress if I hadn’t been in their classes. It forced me out of my shell.” And out she stayed—Lively is warm and ultrachatty, dispensing the type of cheerful anecdotes that make clear she leads a charmed existence.

The interview goes on from there (you can read it in full HERE). It’s a pretty standard interview that doesn’t really delve into anything even remotely resembling drama. When the question of whether or not she competes on set with Leighton Meester on the set of the GG she responds by saying, “I’ve never really had a competitive relationship in any work situation. The media is always trying to pit us against each other, I guess because it’s just not interesting to say, ‘Everyone gets along; everybody just works 18-hour days and goes home to sleep.’ That’s not fun to read, I guess.” Meh, she’s right. I think I’d prefer to hear that they pull each other’s hair out on a daily basis. Ah well. I do like the photos in this spread tho. They are deceptively simple (the flag is a nice touch) … but I quite like them a lot. I know that Beyoncé wants to be an African American Wonder Woman but I think that Blake makes a pretty good case for a Blonde Wonder Woman. What do y’all think … could she pull off that role?

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