These Celebs Have been within the Working to Play Younger Lily Van der Woodsen
Gossip Lady casting director David Rapaport dished to Jessica concerning 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 loads of different ladies who are actually 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 believe you are pals with Nina Dobrev, that was top-of-the-line auditions I had ever seen, and for that position particularly.”
David stated 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 to be Kelly Rutherford, as a result of she was alleged 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 seek 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!”
