Gossip Girl casting director David Rapaport dished about the Gossip Girl spinoff fixated Serena’s mama, Lily van der Woodsen, with a pilot that starred Brittany Snow and Krysten Ritter “I keep in mind for that Dakota Johnson was available in and Rooney Mara, and a great deal of other females who are now type of huge names however at the time didn’t have that type of stature,” he remembered of the casting procedure.
He informed host Jessica Szohr, “And you understand who did the very best checked out for that? I’ll inform you, due to the fact that I believe you’re pals with Nina Dobrev, that was among the very best auditions I had actually ever seen, and for that function particularly.”
David stated he called the network and informed them, “She is a super star.” As he remembered on the podcast years later on, “She does not look like Kelly Rutherford, due to the fact that she was expected to be a young Kelly Rutherford, so I do not understand how we would cast her, however she requires to be on your radar and you people require to discover something for her. I simply keep in mind thinking, ‘I am going to think of this woman in a number of years and resemble, ‘Oh god, I missed out on that chance.’ She was so unbelievable!”
