These Celebs Had 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 bear in mind for that Dakota Johnson got here in and Rooney Mara, and a whole lot of different ladies 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 the perfect learn for that? I will let you know, as a result of I feel you are buddies with Nina Dobrev, that was probably the greatest auditions I had ever seen, and for that function particularly.”

David stated he referred to as the community and informed them, “She is an excellent star.”

The problem, 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 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 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 unbelievable!”