Gossip Girl Facts
37 Mind-Blowing Gossip Girl Facts to Celebrate the Show's 10th Anniversary
![Executives wanted the cast to act like their characters in real life. After news that she and Badgley had dated went public and her personal life was splashed all over the tabloids, Lively quickly realized that some of the show's higher-ups were thrilled. "They wanted us all to date. They wanted us all to wear the same clothes that we're wearing on the show," she explained. "They wanted that, because then it fed their whole narrative. People could buy into this world."
Badgley parted with the show on bad terms. Badgley declined to be interviewed for the Vanity Fair profile, but Safran noted that the actor "didn't like being on Gossip Girl, but . . . he was Dan. He may not have liked it, but [his character] was the closest to who he was."
The cast was always singing behind the scenes. Kelly Rutherford, who played Serena's mom, Lily, said that, "You'd walk by the dressing rooms and everyone would be doing their music." Both Meester and Taylor Momsen, who starred as Jenny Humphrey, have continued their music careers.
By the end of Gossip Girl's run, certain actors were pretty unhappy. With movie opportunities floating in and music projects taking over their lives, Gossip Girl's cast started to outgrow the series. "Some of the actors were not entirely happy to be there after a certain point," Safran said. "And no matter what we did, they were never going be happy. . . . They were kids. They were young."
Billy Baldwin wasn't thrilled that Lively would be playing his brother's wife in a movie. Billy Baldwin, who played Serena's father, shared an anecdote about Lively's blossoming movie career. "She goes, 'Yeah, [Alec]'s gonna play my husband.' And I said, 'So in what universe is it just or right or fair that he plays your husband and I play your father?' And she started laughing and said, 'That makes you Alec's father-in-law.' And I was like, 'Say that again and I'm gonna stab you with a pen or something. Or, like, break your kneecap.'"](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/7xEZZTGaHuE6_uiWE8a_gQxKoLY/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2017/08/30/628/n/1922283/0bc8e6e5b9b9de6e_TCDGOGI_EC186_H/i/Executives-wanted-cast-act-like-characters-real-life.JPG "Executives wanted the cast to act like their characters in real life. After news that she and Badgley had dated went public and her personal life was splashed all over the tabloids, Lively quickly realized that some of the show's higher-ups were thrilled. \"They wanted us all to date. They wanted us all to wear the same clothes that we're wearing on the show,\" she explained. \"They wanted that, because then it fed their whole narrative. People could buy into this world.\"
Badgley parted with the show on bad terms. Badgley declined to be interviewed for the Vanity Fair profile, but Safran noted that the actor \"didn't like being on Gossip Girl, but . . . he was Dan. He may not have liked it, but [his character] was the closest to who he was.\"
The cast was always singing behind the scenes. Kelly Rutherford, who played Serena's mom, Lily, said that, \"You'd walk by the dressing rooms and everyone would be doing their music.\" Both Meester and Taylor Momsen, who starred as Jenny Humphrey, have continued their music careers.
By the end of Gossip Girl's run, certain actors were pretty unhappy. With movie opportunities floating in and music projects taking over their lives, Gossip Girl's cast started to outgrow the series. \"Some of the actors were not entirely happy to be there after a certain point,\" Safran said. \"And no matter what we did, they were never going be happy. . . . They were kids. They were young.\"
Billy Baldwin wasn't thrilled that Lively would be playing his brother's wife in a movie. Billy Baldwin, who played Serena's father, shared an anecdote about Lively's blossoming movie career. \"She goes, 'Yeah, [Alec]'s gonna play my husband.' And I said, 'So in what universe is it just or right or fair that he plays your husband and I play your father?' And she started laughing and said, 'That makes you Alec's father-in-law.' And I was like, 'Say that again and I'm gonna stab you with a pen or something. Or, like, break your kneecap.'\"")
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