![]() ![]() ![]() “Penn didn’t like being on Gossip Girl, but …. I don't regret it, but I'm just maybe too honest about it sometimes.”īut executive producer Joshua Safran had a different view on the situation. ULTIMATELY, BADGLEY PROBABLY WISHES HE HAD FOLLOWED HIS INITIAL INSTINCT.īadgley told Vulture that, “I wouldn't be here without Gossip Girl, so I will always be in debt and grateful. Thank you for understanding that I wouldn't want to do this.’ And then they couldn't find anybody for it-which is weird, because a million people could play Dan Humphrey-and she came back around, I was about to get a job as a waiter, and I was like, ‘Okay.’” 3. I can't.’ … Stephanie Savage, the creator, she said to me, ‘I know you might not want to do this again, but just take a look at it.’ And I actually was like, ‘I appreciate so much that you thought of me. “I was frustrated and I was broke and I was depressed and I was like, ‘I cannot do that again. “The reason I turned it down initially was because I was just frustrated,” Badgley told Vulture in 2012. Though he was hardly a household name when Gossip Girl premiered, Penn Badgley had been acting for nearly a decade-and had a lot of experience working on first season TV shows that never took off-when he was offered the role of Brooklyn outsider Dan Humphrey, and his initial response was: thanks, but no thanks. PENN BADGLEY INITIALLY TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF DAN HUMPHREY.īarbara Nitke - © 2012 THE CW Network, LLC. "When we made the list of writers who would be the best to adapt Gossip Girl for television, Josh was at the top of the list." 2. "The books are a soap opera, and TV makes a lot of sense," executive producer Leslie Morgenstein told Backstage of the decision to go the small-screen route. When those plans fell through, the producers approached Josh Schwartz-who was just wrapping up work on The O.C.-about taking his talent for creating enviable high school worlds to New York City’s Upper East Side. It was supposed to be a feature film, with Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino writing the script and Lindsay Lohan set to star as Blair Waldorf. Originally, the plan for adapting Gossip Girl wasn’t for a series at all. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A LINDSAY LOHAN MOVIE. In honor of the series’ tenth anniversary, here are 20 things you might not have known about Gossip Girl. Like a new millennium version of Beverly Hills, 90210, the series-which was adapted from Cecily von Ziegesar’s book series of the same name-saw The O.C.’s Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage trade in their west coast cool for New York City style as the show followed the lives of a group of friends (and sometimes enemies) navigating the elite world of prep schools and being fabulous on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Ten years ago, Gossip Girl became appointment television for America’s teenagers-and a guilty pleasure for millions more (whether they wanted to admit it or not). ![]()
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