Meet the Contemporary Characters From the Gossip Lady  Reboot

Also can Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf be making a comeback? Some fans are crossing their fingers after files broke on July 17, 2019, that an up thus far model of Gossip Lady is officially happening. Yes, the feeble CW display—in accordance with the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar—is getting relaunched by WarnerMedia’s streaming service, HBO Max.

Yes, a sleek Gossip Lady reboot is coming in 2021—and it the truth is sounds amazing. “Eight years after the authentic websites went shaded, a sleek technology of Contemporary York non-public faculty kids are launched to the social surveillance of Gossip Lady,” the logline reads, per Deadline. “The prestige series will address perfect how unprecedented social media—and the panorama of Contemporary York itself—has changed within the intervening years.” 

Beyond that, right here’s what all of us know to this point about the series.

There would possibly be 10 episodes. Consistent with Deadline, HBO has ordered 10 hour-lengthy episodes of the sleek model of the display. As the logline exhibits, it’ll variety out up to the moment considerations, along with social media and online privateness, that has changed one of the dynamics in this day’s high faculties.

The present creators are on the wait on of the sleek model. Long-established program creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are going to be govt producers. Joshua Safran, a author and producer on the OG display, is moreover on board and to blame of penning this subsequent chapter.

Here’s what all of us to find out about the authentic cast’s involvement. While the display will address sleek characters, it looks there’s some hope that outdated individuals will also procure an appearance. “We’ve reached out to all of them to let them be aware it became once happening and we’d love for them to be interested by the event that they want to be enthusiastic, nonetheless completely didn’t want to procure it contingent upon [them being involved],” govt producer Josh Schwartz acknowledged July 26, 2019, on the Tv Critics Affiliation summer season press tour, in accordance with Entertainment Tonight. “They performed these characters for six years, and within the event that they felt esteem they were correct with that, we favor to appreciate that, nonetheless obviously…it’d be gargantuan to examine them again.”

In previous interviews, the solid has had an complete bunch heaps of opinions about returning. Chace Crawford (Nate) has signaled before that he wasn’t wild about sleek episodes with the authentic stars. “I don’t think anybody’s been seriously talking about that. I accept as true with they’d want to reach wait on up with a accurate knowing, and I know Josh and Stephanie would must be a allotment of it,” he educated Entertainment Tonight in 2019. “It is miles droll to me, it’s nearly turn into a traditional now. It seemingly goes to display you that we shouldn’t be redoing it. I’m capable of’t be in high faculty anymore. That’s the article. I don’t even know what they would invent. For me in my belief, I would favor to look the least bit individuals again and I cherished all individuals and I would favor to work with all individuals, nonetheless I don’t know if it’s necessarily a actuality.”

Detached, he changed his tune relatively when he spoke to Digital Look for in July 2019, announcing he’d “completely want to cameo.” Then, talking to August Man a pair of months later, he reiterated that he’d “indubitably be start” to returning for a cameo. “If there’s an opening within the long term for doing a cameo, I would indubitably be start to it,” the actor acknowledged. “The display became once a immense allotment of my life and became once genuinely special. I cherished each person on it, from the solid to the crew. We were a accurate family.” Alternatively, he did add that the Amazon series he’s in, The Boys, “is my priority now.” However he added, when he received files of a sleek Gossip Lady, “It perfect makes me feel frail.”

“I received an electronic mail about it correct before my birthday,” he educated August Man. “It’s droll they’re already rebooting it.”

Blake Stuffed with life (Serena) has outlined that she would no longer deliver never to the root of returning. “It form of all relies,” she educated Diversity in 2017. “Would I invent seven years of the display? No, since it’s labor and I’ve received my babies, and I don’t want to be far from them that unprecedented. However I’ve perfect learned in life you never deliver never. I’m seeking to invent one thing that I haven’t executed yet, no longer one thing that I did. However would I invent that? Who knows—if it became once correct, if it made sense. We had so unprecedented stress-free shooting and living and working in Contemporary York City.”

Alternatively, Safran added that we can rule out one thing: seeing the following technology of the frail crew. There would possibly be no kids of feeble characters on this recede. “No, we’re no longer that frail!” he joked at TCA, experiences ET.

There occupy moreover been rumors that Kristen Bell would return as the snort of Gossip Lady. Even supposing we didn’t watch her face on our displays (until the final episode), Bell’s voiceovers are as unprecedented a allotment of the iconic display as Blair’s and Serena’s kinds. When asked about a most likely return by E! News, she coyly replied, “Maybe. I’ll never snort.”

However Bell’s return became once confirmed on Thursday, November 7, 2019. Consistent with Diversity, Bell has officially signed on to the HBO Max display as the titular narrator. XOXO!

The OG characters would possibly be a allotment of the sleek display, with or with out the authentic cast. “Stephanie and I had been talking about it on and off right during the final couple of years, and clearly you’re seeing more exhibits procure revisited,” Schwartz acknowledged at TCA on July 26, 2019, in accordance with ET. “With no doubt, on social media, there were of us soliciting for it. We felt that a model with our cast grown-up, no subject what the challenges would be of assembling these actors again, it didn’t genuinely feel esteem a team of adults that will seemingly perchance be patrolled by Gossip Lady would procure a form of sense.”

“So we thought there became once one thing genuinely attention-grabbing about the root that we are all Gossip Lady now, in our grasp procedure, that we are all purveyors of our grasp social media surveillance issue and how that has evolved and how that has mutated and morphed and telling that through a sleek technology of Larger East Facet high faculty kids,” he added.

In a December 2019 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Safran confirmed Serena, Blair, Nate, and Dan would possibly be a allotment of the Gossip Lady reimagining whether or no longer the stars seize to reach wait on.

He outlined that the sleek series will suppose previous characters because “the universe soundless exists.”

“They are a allotment of the sphere,” Safran acknowledged. “The characters focus on them and that they devise exist. So yeah, I would favor to occupy them reach wait on. The display jumped five years within the long term when it ended and we are previous that five years now, so it’s entire sleek issues that they’ll also merely be doing.”

“I accept as true with [the new show] esteem the Shock universe. It’s no longer a continuation or a sequel. It the truth is perfect is taking a examine a heaps of perspective,” he added.

Safran moreover confirmed the sleek display will address what the authentic characters are up to following the 2012 series finale. “Successfully, we focus on what came about to Dan, so I would must textual declare material Penn and watch if he’s genuinely readily available,” Safran acknowledged. “Penn moreover works consistently, nonetheless we’ll watch if we can rope him in there. That is probably going to be gargantuan. I would favor for each person to reach wait on wait on within the event that they wanted to.”

Badgley addressed the return straight on Entertainment Tonight, announcing merely that making an appearance on the display is one thing he’d want to “trust.”

“Also can Dan Humphrey…? I don’t…. That’s a message I gotta assign on the quit of my inbox, , to trust,” he acknowledged. “I genuinely occupy no longer had conversations with any of the creators yet, nonetheless ….”

Sounds esteem the door isn’t completely closed, nonetheless it’s price noting that Badgley is goal busy along with his work on You.

“I accept as true with it’s goal decided that, esteem, I’ve never been a proponent of Dan Humphrey’s,” he acknowledged. “I’ve never been necessarily the supreme buddy or fan of Dan Humphrey, which now I reconcile on this trend that I’m esteem, , I would favor to make contributions in a meaningful approach to it. And I guess it might possibly well possibly seemingly perchance perfect depend upon a form of issues.

“It would depend upon how and why he’s there,” Badgley persisted, “and I don’t know…esteem, is it even…? Yeah, I don’t know.”

However what about the learners? On March 2, 2020, we at closing received files of who would possibly be taking half in surely one of the most lead characters. Consistent with Deadline, Emily Alyn Lind will megastar as Audrey, a character who has “been in a lengthy-term relationship and is foundation to marvel what more would possibly be available within the market.”

Alyn Lind has previously had roles in Revenge and Code Dim. Again in 2017 she talked to Glamour, along along with her two sisters who’re moreover actors. (Their mom performed Deb Scott on One Tree Hill.) “After I look TV or watch a movie, I accept as true with, I want to record to this character. I want to know that any person is right here for me whether it’s a 30-minute display or a two-hour film,” she acknowledged. “That’s our role as actors, and these are the roles I want to play. I know kids who occupy gone through issues and feel very alone. Whenever you look movies or tv, you don’t want to examine the supreme person your complete time. It gets genuinely tiring.”

However who will her costars be? On March 11, Deadline announced four sleek actors becoming a member of the display: Rookie magazine founder Tavi Gevinson (Affirm Queens), along with Thomas Doherty (High Fidelity), Adam Chanler-Berat (Next to Customary), and Zion Moreno (Claws).

The storylines would possibly be fresh, nonetheless no longer ordinary. We don’t occupy a form of files correct now, nonetheless all the issues we’ve heard sounds very promising. “We occupy now gotten the first script [by showrunner Safran], and I’m capable of snort you all of us breathed a immense impart of relief since it’s fairly correct,” Aubrey acknowledged on January 15, 2020, on the TCAs, in accordance with Entertainment Tonight. “You might be in a location to think the bar is highly high. I accept as true with that surely one of the most advantages of having the authentic creators enthusiastic, they’re very decided of what the essential substances of the display are and are no longer. And moreover, genuinely excited to bring a latest lens to it 10 years later. Josh and crew occupy executed a gargantuan job to this point.”

One thing we invent know is that we’ll be wait on at Constance Billard with the sleek characters. “It’s the identical high faculty, so we’re wait on at Constance Billard. We are taking a examine a team of buddies in their junior 365 days. These items are the identical. They’re soundless within the uniforms,” Safran educated ET in December. “No longer each person lives on the Larger East Facet, though. Brooklyn’s no longer the corrupt pickle to are living. Brooklyn’s seemingly cooler within the sleek model than Manhattan, ’reason it is in some areas. As a change of that, it has the DNA of the authentic.”

However the kids will completely occupy a heaps of relationship with social media than the authentic crew. “I accept as true with it very unprecedented represents the place we might possibly seemingly perchance be at in 2020 when the display airs. It genuinely appears to be like to be at how social media has changed,” Safran moreover acknowledged. “, the first time around, when the display started of us were, esteem, checking in areas on Foursquare and updating their locations on Facebook. Issues we’d never invent now because we don’t favor anybody to know the place we are. That change alone changes the dynamic of what Gossip Lady skill and how Gossip Lady interacts with the kids for the time being and age, so I accept as true with it’s gonna be genuinely attention-grabbing to examine. The typical age reflected through Gossip Lady.”

The leads are nonwhite, and there would possibly be hundreds of LGBTQ+ storylines. Joshua Safran, who wrote and govt-produced the authentic display, confirmed this at Vulture Pageant on November 10, 2019. “There became once no longer a form of illustration the first time around on the display,” he acknowledged. “I became once the correct glad author I accept as true with the total time I became once there. Even once I went to non-public faculty in Contemporary York within the ’90s, the faculty didn’t necessarily judge what became once on Gossip Lady. So this time around the leads are nonwhite. There’s a form of peculiar declare material on this display. It is miles highly unprecedented facing the vogue the sphere appears to be like to be now, the place wealth and privilege reach from, and how you address that. The article I’m capable of’t deliver is there might possibly be a twist, and that every person pertains to the twist.”

The reboot officially began filming in Contemporary York City wait on in October. Following delays attributable to the coronavirus pandemic, sleek Gossip Lady stars Eli Brown and Whitney Height were noticed filming a scene on space on November 5, giving fans their first look on the sleek series’ trend. The 2 were photographed leaving a building together in what we can supreme retract became once a date evening, as they were both dressed up for a night out on the town.

The pics of the solid on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are right here. I’m obsessed. 

As of January 1, 2021, we were officially launched to those sleek faces. In a series of posts on Instagram, the loyal Gossip Lady story shared a search for at our sleek Larger East Siders with a one-word character description. 

Julien Callow (Jordan Alexander): Impact.

Monet de Haan (Savannah Smith): Energy.

Luna La (Zion Moreno): Vogue.

Max Wolfe (Thomas Doherty): Freedom. (Any individual else getting Chuck Bass vibes?)

Audrey Hope (Emily Lynd): Grace.

Kate Keller (Tavi Gevinson): Ambition.

Otto “Obie” Bergmann IV (Eli Brown): Privilege. Okay, so perchance he’s the sleek Chuck Bass.

Akeno “Aki” Menzies (Evan Mock): Innocence.

Zoya Lott (Whitney Height): Perspective.

We’ll replace this publish with more particulars as they reach in. XOXO.