These Celebs Have been within the Operating 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 a number 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 you realize who did one of the best learn for that? I will inform you, as a result of I feel you are mates with Nina Dobrev, that was among the best auditions I had ever seen, and for that position particularly.”
David mentioned he referred to as the community and advised them, “She is a brilliant star.”
The difficulty, nevertheless, as he recalled on the podcast was that “she doesn’t appear to be Kelly Rutherford, as a result of she was purported to be a younger Kelly Rutherford.”
Nonetheless, she burdened to the community that they wanted to maintain the Degrassi: The Subsequent Era star on their radar, “‘and also you guys want to seek out one thing for her,'” he recalled. “I simply bear 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!”
