Lively plays a blind woman, who, while living in Bangkok with her husband (Jason Clarke), undergoes an operation which returns her sight. Judging from the trailer, what is initially a wondrous gift soon forces the couple to look at the much-changed dynamics of their relationship now that Clarke is no longer leading Lively through life.

The film, which debuted at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, looks to be a dark and gripping psychological drama. Speaking about what drew her to the project, Lively explains to the podcast’s co-host Josh Duboff that she struggles with the limited characters offered to women in Hollywood.

One example of this is, Lively says, the “note from a studio which is the woman has to be likeable” – something she says she’s “never heard them say” about a man.

Lively continues to flawlessly illustrate how men often play unlikeable characters, or “assholes” to put it more concisely, but audiences are expected to overlook it because of they come off as “charming”.

Using her own husband, Deadpool’s Ryan Reynolds, as an example, Lively says: “I mean, my husband plays assholes [but], you go, ‘He’s so charming.’ Because he is likable [...] or you look at Harrison Ford as Han Solo and he’s like, ‘Get over here, sweetheart,’ and you just sort of [think], ‘Whoo, it’s so exciting and romantic and titillating.’

“It’s because he’s charming and he’s loving and he’s not some sexist asshole [...] but, you don’t see that and think, ‘Oh, that guy’s not likable.’”

Blake Lively on how women in Hollywood are limited by “likeability"