The Lively sisters know how to have a frighteningly good time
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Robyn Lively ... why does the name of one of the stars of “Ouija,” out this past Friday, sound so familiar? Yep, she’s related to actress Blake Lively, who’s her half-sister — though the term sounds strange to the 42-year-old Robyn.
“It’s just so weird to hear it put that way, because there’s nothing about our relationship that’s half,” says Lively, who’s married to actor Bart Johnson and has three kids. “She’s my sister; we’re best friends.”
Long before her younger sis was a “Gossip Girl,” the older Lively appeared in many popular films and TV shows: She was the star of the 1989 film “Teen Witch,” beloved to this day by many of its then-teen viewers.
“It’s insane,” she says. “It has a bizarre cult following. They know every line — they’re obsessed!”
The actress, who plays the mother of a murdered teen in the forthcoming horror movie about a haunted Ouija board, also appeared alongside many of the male heartthrobs of the ’80s and early ’90s, in everything from “Knight Rider” to “Silver Spoons” to “Doogie Howser, M.D.” In more recent years, she’s had parts on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “The Mentalist,” “Psych” and a recurring role on “Saving Grace.”
“My favorite person to work with was Ricky Schroder,” she says of the “Silver Spoons” star. “We dated for half a second, but we’re still friends today. I even have a photo of us from years before the show, when I was so excited to get my picture taken with him and he didn’t know I existed!”
She also fondly remembers her stint on “21 Jump Street,” which happened to include Johnny Depp’s last-ever episodes.
“He had his hair all in his eyes, and you could just tell he was over it,” she recalls. “But he was still really friendly. There was another guest actor in that episode, too. He had a much smaller part than me. We became friends, I just loved him. It was Vince Vaughn!”
She also appeared on spooky shows “The X-Files” and “Twin Peaks” — but one thing she never did, she says, was mess around with Ouija boards. “I have a lot of friends who had bizarre experiences with them,” she says. “But personally, I’ve always stayed far away from them — they creep me out so much!”
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