"Close, genuine female relationships are not what generally gets depicted in movies and TV shows," observes America Ferrera in an interview with Seventeen. "Like, if you're watching The Hills or 90210, all the backstabbing shapes the way we act – you go to school, and you think your job is to find a sworn enemy and be jealous of each other."
Adds Ferrera, 24: "I mean, I love Blake Lively, she’s a wonderful friend of mine, but shows like Gossip Girl kind of condition us to be mean."
The Ugly Betty star knows girls can be mean, she says, recalling how she has "worked with other girls before and it was pretty catty."
But working with Lively, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel in the 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' movies was "one of the most wonderful experiences I’ve had with girl relationships," she says.
Before meeting them she says, "I was like, 'I'm just going to show up to work and be professional – not their best friend.'"
"But a couple of weeks into shooting, Amber and I started talking. She's a hippie, and I thought we had nothing in common – and now she's one of my closest friends!"
