These Celebs Have been within the Working to Play Younger Lily Van der Woodsen
Gossip Woman casting director David Rapaport dished to Jessica concerning the Gossip Woman spinoff centered on Serena’s mother, Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford), 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 quite a lot of different girls who at the moment are form of large names however on the time did not have that form of stature,” he recalled on XOXO. “And you realize who did the very best learn for that? I will let you know, as a result of I believe you are buddies with Nina Dobrev, that was the most effective auditions I had ever seen, and for that position particularly.”
David mentioned he referred to as the community and informed them, “She is a brilliant star.”
The difficulty, nonetheless, as he recalled on the podcast was that “she doesn’t seem like Kelly Rutherford, as a result of she was imagined to be a younger Kelly Rutherford.”
Nonetheless, she confused to the community that they wanted to maintain the Degrassi: The Subsequent Technology star on their radar, “‘and also you guys want to search out one thing for her,'” he recalled. “I simply bear in mind pondering, ‘I’m going to consider this lady in a few years and be like, ‘Oh god, I missed that chance.’ She was so unimaginable!”
