Gossip Woman casting director David Rapaport dished about the Gossip Woman spinoff centered on Serena’s mother, Lily van der Woodsen, with a pilot that starred Brittany Snow and Krysten Ritter. “I bear in mind for that Dakota Johnson got here in and Rooney Mara, and numerous different girls who at the moment are type of huge names however on the time did not have that type of stature,” he recalled of the casting course of.
He instructed host Jessica Szohr, “And you realize who did the most effective learn for that? I will let you know, as a result of I believe you are buddies with Nina Dobrev, that was among the finest auditions I had ever seen, and for that function particularly.”
David stated he referred to as the community and instructed them, “She is a brilliant star.” As he recalled on the podcast years later, “She doesn’t appear like Kelly Rutherford, as a result of she was imagined to be a younger Kelly Rutherford, so I do not know the way we might solid her, however she must be in your radar and also you guys want to search out one thing for her. I simply bear in mind considering, ‘I’m going to consider this woman in a few years and be like, ‘Oh god, I missed that chance.’ She was so unimaginable!”
