These Celebs Had 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 keep in mind for that Dakota Johnson got here in and Rooney Mara, and a number of different ladies who are actually sort of massive names however on the time did not have that sort of stature,” he recalled on XOXO. “And you already know who did the perfect learn for that? I am going to let you know, as a result of I believe you are associates with Nina Dobrev, that was probably the greatest auditions I had ever seen, and for that position particularly.”
David mentioned he known as the community and informed them, “She is an excellent star.”
The difficulty, nonetheless, as he recalled on the podcast was that “she doesn’t appear to be Kelly Rutherford, as a result of she was imagined to be a younger Kelly Rutherford.”
Nonetheless, she pressured 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 keep in mind considering, ‘I’m going to consider this lady in a few years and be like, ‘Oh god, I missed that chance.’ She was so unimaginable!”
