These Celebs Have been within the Working to Play Younger Lily Van der Woodsen
Gossip Lady casting director David Rapaport dished to Jessica in regards to the Gossip Lady 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 plenty of different girls who at the moment are type of huge names however on the time did not have that type of stature,” he recalled on XOXO. “And who did one of the best learn for that? I will let you know, as a result of I feel you are mates with Nina Dobrev, that was probably the greatest auditions I had ever seen, and for that function particularly.”
David mentioned he referred to as the community and instructed them, “She is a brilliant star.”
The problem, nevertheless, as he recalled on the podcast was that “she doesn’t appear like Kelly Rutherford, as a result of she was speculated to be a younger Kelly Rutherford.”
Nonetheless, she careworn 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 woman in a few years and be like, ‘Oh god, I missed that chance.’ She was so unimaginable!”
