Speaker 1: M Welcome back, listeners to your one and only source
Speaker 1: into all things gossip. Growth. You know you'll love it.
Speaker 1: XO x O. Hi everyone, I'm your host, Jessica's or. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: last week my girls, Usana and I wrapped up our
Speaker 1: season two re watches with the incredible director Norman Buckley. Gosh,
Speaker 1: I love him so much. It brought up so many
Speaker 1: memories for the season, and we realized that before we
Speaker 1: move on to season three, we would like to touch
Speaker 1: on everything season two. So for today's a very special
Speaker 1: episode of XO XO, we are going to be doing
Speaker 1: a mail bag episode and answering all of your questions.
Speaker 1: And this has been so much fun in the past.
Speaker 1: I love doing these because I feel like I get
Speaker 1: to know you all a little bit more and hopefully
Speaker 1: it makes your journey on this rewatch ride with us
Speaker 1: more fun for all of you as well. So we'll
Speaker 1: be getting into behind the scenes memories, fashion, favorite characters,
Speaker 1: and more. So let's get into it. Hello everyone, Hello,
Speaker 1: nice is Anna, Hi, how are we doing good. I'm
Speaker 1: back from London. I was in London on a little job. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: tell me about London. Yes, I just got back from London,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to be back to talking gossip Girl.
Speaker 1: Even though I did talk a lot of gossip Girl
Speaker 1: in London, because a lot of Gossip Girl fans in London.
Speaker 1: I was really surprised. I got stopped on the street
Speaker 1: so much more than I do in New York, so
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, this is um it's definitely a save
Speaker 1: for the Brits. Oh and it was funny because I
Speaker 1: took some photos and some pubs. You know of a
Speaker 1: lot of pub photos, pub selfies, and um, I got
Speaker 1: I got spotted on the tube. Um. No, but I
Speaker 1: went to see my friend do a play and that's
Speaker 1: what you went for. Yeah, I went to see my
Speaker 1: friend in a play. He's doing the Tammy Fay Musical.
Speaker 1: And we had to stand in a queue in order
Speaker 1: to see the play. And we stayed in a flat
Speaker 1: and we stood in an Airbnb flat and we went
Speaker 1: on the tube. No, but it was it was really fun.
Speaker 1: I've never really been for a substantial visit, so it
Speaker 1: was nice. But I did get a lot of gossip
Speaker 1: rol up, so it was cool. So um, I'm glad
Speaker 1: to be back now. And it's it's fun that we
Speaker 1: now get to answer listener questions questions. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: back in the fan mode. So that was fine, and
Speaker 1: I just I love London so much. I actually when
Speaker 1: we were filming Gossip Girl, I used to go all
Speaker 1: the time, like when we'd have little breaks or just
Speaker 1: for fun or because he had a heighted for holidays. Well, um,
Speaker 1: I would go with d a lot. Oh sure, of
Speaker 1: course from outside of London, so we would go a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I got to like experience London from someone who's like,
Speaker 1: you know, from there, which I like and love. You know.
Speaker 1: I thought about Ed when I was there. I was
Speaker 1: when I walked around, I thought, what wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: great if I ran into Ed? But I did not.
Speaker 1: I looked for him on every around, every corner. No,
Speaker 1: but it was fun. Oh good, I'm glad you had
Speaker 1: a good time. And I'm glad you got to meet
Speaker 1: some of the Gossip Girl fans. That's so fun and exciting,
Speaker 1: so many of them. So that was really exciting because
Speaker 1: you know, that's part of what's cool about the show
Speaker 1: is that it is like internationally beloved, you know, and
Speaker 1: you don't think of that, but sometimes when we get
Speaker 1: on social media and you see, like we have fans
Speaker 1: in Brazil and England and all over the place, so
Speaker 1: that's all over exciting. It is. It's it's so funny
Speaker 1: and interesting because you, yeah, you just sometimes you just
Speaker 1: don't think about it. You were doing, you know, doing
Speaker 1: your job. And then I'll we were in Italy ones
Speaker 1: and I remember Brad and I sitting at a cafe
Speaker 1: here that's better to just tell the story, and some
Speaker 1: girls came up and and Brad has never really seen
Speaker 1: the show and we had met well after I was
Speaker 1: on it, so he was like, I just can't believe
Speaker 1: how big this show is. He's like, I remember hearing
Speaker 1: about it, but he's like, we're like at a small
Speaker 1: cafe in Italy, in this little town. Like he's like,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. And then we went to another part of
Speaker 1: Italy and it was kind of happening there and he
Speaker 1: was just like, Wow, people really love the show. So
Speaker 1: you don't really think about it until you are somewhere
Speaker 1: somewhere else and you're like, oh, they played it here
Speaker 1: and you guys liked it. I know, it's really it
Speaker 1: really does translate, you know, by the way, do you think,
Speaker 1: like are people watching it with subtitles and like Vanessa
Speaker 1: speaking Italian and Dorota speaking Italian, or they watching like
Speaker 1: an American version. Well, to my sensibility, I think that
Speaker 1: probably nowadays they watched and streamers, maybe they watched it
Speaker 1: in the original language. But back in the day, like
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that like in Poland, the
Speaker 1: way they do TV there is they have like the dubbing.
Speaker 1: It's like kind of like this weird voice. No, this
Speaker 1: one voice reads like all the parts. It's really weird,
Speaker 1: but so you can hear us underneath, and then there's
Speaker 1: like this dubbing, and then I think in other countries
Speaker 1: we're dubbed fully with other voices, so you know, And
Speaker 1: in fact, I'm sure of it because I saw somebody's
Speaker 1: sent me a Spanish version from you. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: totally different actors or voicing us, So it's like some
Speaker 1: Spanish actress. Yeah, it's kind of fun you get to see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to check it out, because I feel like
Speaker 1: we have to google it and find like a funny
Speaker 1: version of ourselves. I'm doing that for sure before we
Speaker 1: come back here next week. That is hilarious because oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I can't imagine. That's also must be very
Speaker 1: technical and hard to do, but I'm going to look
Speaker 1: that up for sure. Um. Okay, so we're here and
Speaker 1: doing a mail bag episode because we finished season two,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be getting into season three. And yeah, we
Speaker 1: figured if there wasn't something we touched on or talked
Speaker 1: about in one of the episodes of the podcast, that
Speaker 1: you guys just right in and we can kind of
Speaker 1: discuss it here and give you know, talk about it here. Um,
Speaker 1: so should we just dive right in? Absolutely, let's do it. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we have Baldwin and it is out of all
Speaker 1: of season two? What was your favorite episode to rewatch?
Speaker 1: They said there's was season two episode, which is the finale. Actually,
Speaker 1: I agree because to me, the finale is always fun
Speaker 1: to see how things wrap up, and I also the
Speaker 1: watching of the finale was fun, and then also the
Speaker 1: talking to Norman about the finale was really fun because
Speaker 1: we got all that behind the scenes stuff. So to me,
Speaker 1: that was a fun one. I'm like enjoying so much
Speaker 1: of it. It's not to say that every single one
Speaker 1: was my favorite, but there's just bits and pieces of it,
Speaker 1: like even you know, when we're going to start with
Speaker 1: the finale having to be introduced who plays Scott, like
Speaker 1: having one Poppy and Gabriel came on. That whole storyline
Speaker 1: with Serena was wild to me because I didn't remember
Speaker 1: any of that. Um Like, I'm liking watching and going
Speaker 1: on this roller coaster with um, Chuck and Blair. I
Speaker 1: also really liked one of Norman's other episodes, which is
Speaker 1: when they when the girls were fighting about going to school.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was my favorite. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have a favorite. That's so ridiculous, I
Speaker 1: should really have one. Well, the one with we would
Speaker 1: like too is the one with the flashback the um
Speaker 1: the one to girls one was really fun too because
Speaker 1: it was so different, So yeah, it's yeah. I also
Speaker 1: when to Rhoda when she had when she sneaks into
Speaker 1: the bathroom and has all the things that she like took,
Speaker 1: Was it everyone's phones that you had and you had
Speaker 1: the sunglasses on and you come into the school bathroom,
Speaker 1: the school bathroom? Yeah yeah, um, I think that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like any de Rhota snooping. Yeah, it was so funny.
Speaker 1: I was I was like in stitches laughing, like, look
Speaker 1: at Toronto with those cute glasses. It was too funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Deronda Undercover is the best. It's the best. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good Halloween costume. Actually, okay, yeah, you know when
Speaker 1: of the years The Girl was on the air, it
Speaker 1: was there was some list in like New York magazine
Speaker 1: or something, and Deronda was one of the top ten costumes.
Speaker 1: And I was so excited because I was like that
Speaker 1: to me felt like really special. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Yeah, that's prety easy one to do. You know.
Speaker 1: You just gotta get a little headband and you're good. Um,
Speaker 1: throw some glasses on. It's like Deronda being undercover. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on. A similarly large question for us, which
Speaker 1: will be hard to answer, is from uh Louisa DEM's
Speaker 1: um and this person said, who was your favorite character
Speaker 1: from the show and why it's hard to pick a character?
Speaker 1: But man, yeah, I mean a lot of me wants
Speaker 1: to say it's really hard. You know, I would have
Speaker 1: to because of my personal allegiances of Deronda nous. But
Speaker 1: I feel like I love yeah so many And I mean,
Speaker 1: can you say that like Deronda? I love? Of course?
Speaker 1: Why not? Why not? I love that? Yes? But you know,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe we could narrow her or this person's
Speaker 1: question down to like what season two characters our favorite? Like, um,
Speaker 1: you know that would mean like Poppy and who else?
Speaker 1: Who else comes through? Um, Gabriel. There was also Willa
Speaker 1: who plays um with Jenny. She's like puts all of
Speaker 1: her stuff on fire. That was a wild storyline. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's a part of me that once I
Speaker 1: would say Blair, and then there's a big part of
Speaker 1: me for season two that I think the journey that
Speaker 1: Chuck goes on from the things with Blair, losing his dad,
Speaker 1: being the families combining, like you know, moving in with Serena,
Speaker 1: going through the heartbreak and the love triangle with Nate
Speaker 1: and Blair. I think Chuck took me on a real
Speaker 1: roller coaster with all these different things going on in
Speaker 1: his life. That's a really good point. And so much vulnerability, yeah,
Speaker 1: like he has to go through. Yeah, he has to
Speaker 1: make him so vulnerable. Yeah, And at the end he
Speaker 1: really comes through and does the sweetest thing at the
Speaker 1: problem for Blair, like make sure that she wins and
Speaker 1: that's was the night she wanted. Even though he was
Speaker 1: madly is madly in love with her, he still put
Speaker 1: all of that aside and watched the girl that he
Speaker 1: loves up there on the stage crowning each other with
Speaker 1: with Nate his best friend, which is really that's like
Speaker 1: so selfless and so love is supposed to be, and
Speaker 1: it works out for him because in the end stands
Speaker 1: up with him. That's a good one. That's agree. I
Speaker 1: guess I'm gonna go Chuck. I agree. And then another
Speaker 1: piggyback question on that comes from at portal GG brazil Um,
Speaker 1: who asks about the favorite couple. So, I guess you
Speaker 1: know a couple of wis I guess both of us
Speaker 1: are leading towards Chuck and Blair. But I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Nate and Vanessa. No. I liked their moment. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you want Chuck and Blair, but there is a moment
Speaker 1: where I really enjoy you know what. For season two, Uh,
Speaker 1: Serena and Dan were just two back and forth. I'm like,
Speaker 1: do you guys want to be together or not? Like,
Speaker 1: at least we know what Chuck and Blair they want
Speaker 1: to be together and it's their game. Serena and Dan
Speaker 1: are like unsure all the way around about all of
Speaker 1: it and it's just started. Yeah, and I like Serena
Speaker 1: and Dan together, but their whole back and forth with
Speaker 1: really not being sure kind of like started getting to me.
Speaker 1: Chuck and Blair's black and forth thing was a game
Speaker 1: that I was like, okay with you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say Chuck and Blair. Yeah, Gabriel
Speaker 1: and Poppy and I'm just kidding, Gabriel and Serena, Gabriel,
Speaker 1: Serena and the director from the play. No I think that. No,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll add Chuck and Blair definitely. But then
Speaker 1: I also will put in a little word for um
Speaker 1: Lily and Rufus because even though it's like they come
Speaker 1: together and then they fall apart and then they have
Speaker 1: that cute little engagement with the fake little ring he
Speaker 1: puts on her when they make up, so I feel
Speaker 1: like I'll give them second place. Yeah, I wasn't even
Speaker 1: thinking about those two, you know what. I also did
Speaker 1: really like Nate and Vanessa's moment on here. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing, now, when I think about it, for the series,
Speaker 1: I'll probably would say I would probably say Chuck and Blair,
Speaker 1: But I don't know for season two because there was
Speaker 1: so much like when he lost his dad what he
Speaker 1: was going through and like trying to numb himself and
Speaker 1: like being with all these different girls and doing drugs
Speaker 1: and things like that were so that was very hard
Speaker 1: to watch him go through that and watch Blair see
Speaker 1: him go through that. But then again, that's also how
Speaker 1: much she cares for him. Yeah, I'm just not answering it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, let me just go through everyone. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just the nature of this show
Speaker 1: is that the couples keep keep a changing. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what else do we have here? Yes? And Hi to Brazil?
Speaker 1: Was that the Brazilian Yes? Hi, Hi there, and I
Speaker 1: have to say Hi to Brazil is major because I
Speaker 1: think that Brazil has the most Gossip Girl fans of
Speaker 1: any country. Um, every time I've met someone from Brazil,
Speaker 1: they have been the most enthusiastic and gossip Girl loving fans.
Speaker 1: So I'm giving a major high to Brazil. And uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great. So I'm glad they're listening to the podcast.
Speaker 1: That's big hugs. Yes, Um, okay, where are we we have? Um?
Speaker 1: Leo Barrol Calm. It's hard to say these handles on loud.
Speaker 1: I think they're meant to be seen. The bibeballs. Um,
Speaker 1: they want to know what character we would have liked
Speaker 1: to have interacted more with in season two? Um, I
Speaker 1: guess as actors are our characters. I guess right, Um,
Speaker 1: did you get enough of Nate? Do you think that
Speaker 1: Vanessa enough of Nate or would you rather Yeah? I
Speaker 1: would have liked that to go a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: I think that they had like a good chemistry, a
Speaker 1: good vibe. I think the person that Vanessa is, I
Speaker 1: think Nate really liked that she is very different from
Speaker 1: the girls on the Upper east Side. And I think
Speaker 1: that Vanessa getting to know Nate more, that's what she
Speaker 1: really liked about him. He is very um different than
Speaker 1: than this group that she has a hard time fitting
Speaker 1: in with. UM. But I did like their little chemistry
Speaker 1: and their vibe, and I think they enjoyed each other.
Speaker 1: And at the very end when they were doing the
Speaker 1: school play, they kind of get into a little tiff
Speaker 1: about you know, watching ESPN or reading a play or
Speaker 1: reading a book. And then that night she like orders
Speaker 1: in and has the ESPN on and he is like
Speaker 1: reading the book. So I thought that was really cute
Speaker 1: that they were both trying to, you know, make the
Speaker 1: other one feel comfortable and get to know what the
Speaker 1: other one likes more, and I just thought they had
Speaker 1: a real sweet, little dynamic situation going on. So for
Speaker 1: for me, my answer would be that those two their
Speaker 1: little love story one a little longer. I actually really
Speaker 1: agree with that because I think that, yeah, you want
Speaker 1: to see those two sides of those characters kind of
Speaker 1: pop out more. And I also really just like, um,
Speaker 1: I like those two characters together. I think it's fun um.
Speaker 1: If I had to be interact with anyone more, it
Speaker 1: would be basically everyone, because I feel like they just
Speaker 1: wasn't enough to Rota and season there, so I think
Speaker 1: season three, yeah, there's more Derota. It's like it was
Speaker 1: a slow boil. So it's like season one there was
Speaker 1: very little Deronda, and then over time it grows and grows.
Speaker 1: So by season three, I get to have more fun
Speaker 1: scenes with different people. But I don't think De Rota
Speaker 1: ever had a direct scene with Vanessa, so that would
Speaker 1: have been fun um. I feel like one Nowel de
Speaker 1: Rone and Nate were in the same room, but rarely,
Speaker 1: so there's lots of people I would revisit, and you know,
Speaker 1: let to Ronto have some scenes with for sure, that
Speaker 1: would have been cool, you know, but it's also like
Speaker 1: that's selfishly as an actor. But I feel like watching
Speaker 1: the show, it's actually kind of fun because when Toronto
Speaker 1: pops up, it's like just when you need her, you know,
Speaker 1: as an audience. Sorry, it's fine. Um yeah, And it's
Speaker 1: actually kind of funny because like at episodes eighty eight
Speaker 1: asked if you could have written Vanessa's character, I guess
Speaker 1: speaking to you, Jess in season two, what would she
Speaker 1: have been like or done? So, like if you were
Speaker 1: in that writer's room, like if you were part of
Speaker 1: that decision making process, but would you have changed the
Speaker 1: trajectory for that character? Do you think? Well, I feel like,
Speaker 1: and I've said this to you, I feel like now
Speaker 1: watching back, I do feel like Vanessa's let down a lot.
Speaker 1: And that has to do with, you know, whether you
Speaker 1: know she's letting things she lets things go and then
Speaker 1: goes back and doesn't hold you know, brudges or right,
Speaker 1: wants to look at the positive side of the situations
Speaker 1: that are going down. But I think that she's not
Speaker 1: used to throwing people under the bus to get what
Speaker 1: you want, Like that's just not the way. But she's
Speaker 1: in situations a lot where she's like, well, why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you just say that? Or Okay, we don't like each other,
Speaker 1: that's just you don't have to say that right here.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about some of the funny line
Speaker 1: she's like, I'm standing right here when she says it
Speaker 1: to Blair when Blair is just super mean. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's like such a moment. Yeah, I just I'm like, wow.
Speaker 1: She always just seems kind of like let down and
Speaker 1: not like sad, but kind of sad, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh r V. I guess there's part of me as
Speaker 1: like a person. If that was my friend, I'd be like, Vanessa,
Speaker 1: then don't be around those people anymore. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like if I could write a little capsule episode,
Speaker 1: you know, for Vanessa, it would I would be interested
Speaker 1: to see if she was like screw the Upper east Side,
Speaker 1: like I'm you know, I'm not getting what I want
Speaker 1: here and she just totally went off for like a
Speaker 1: weekend and did a horrible whole other thing. It would
Speaker 1: be kind of fun to see that side of Vanessa,
Speaker 1: you know that what Yeah, like who's she hanging out with?
Speaker 1: Who's she making out with? But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I feel like your performance and the way the role
Speaker 1: is written, it's like all of that is implied there,
Speaker 1: you know, so it's like I kind of know, I
Speaker 1: can imagine that, so I don't in a way. It's like,
Speaker 1: what's interesting is how she, you know, functions in this world,
Speaker 1: so we have a good sense of who she is.
Speaker 1: She's really fleshed out. So it's like watching her bump
Speaker 1: up against Dan and Serena and Blair. It's like, that's
Speaker 1: where the juicy stuff is, I guess. So it makes
Speaker 1: sense Vanessa Vanessa, um, what what about you? Would you
Speaker 1: have rewritten some for her? No? Would you know? I mean,
Speaker 1: I think, you know. It's like, uh, I just felt
Speaker 1: like every time I got a script and I was
Speaker 1: in it, I was like, whoa you know? For me,
Speaker 1: I never yeah, I told you before. I always thought
Speaker 1: I never thought I would ever be in the next episode.
Speaker 1: So every time I was, I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm still around. I always the one thing I
Speaker 1: didn't want to see was like Derota falling down the
Speaker 1: stairs to her death. So as long as as long
Speaker 1: as I was around, I'm good, I'm good. No one
Speaker 1: wanted to see that. Okay, Next question, Taylor's mom Moms
Speaker 1: is favorite season two plotlines is what what she wants
Speaker 1: to know? All right, you go ahead. Um, I guess uh.
Speaker 1: I liked the stuff with them Blair and the minions,
Speaker 1: like the idea that they were trying to undercut her,
Speaker 1: Like I'm always interested in that friend group. So the
Speaker 1: sort of Queen Bee being like Queen Bee being unqueened,
Speaker 1: and then whether Jenny was going to take over. So
Speaker 1: I feel like that. I like the idea of that
Speaker 1: story line. And um, the mom daughter stuff with Serena
Speaker 1: and Lily and then when c C was sort of
Speaker 1: brought into the picture and then we had the flashback.
Speaker 1: So I like all those mom daughter issues that we
Speaker 1: see on the Serena Lily side. I think those are
Speaker 1: kind of the two things that I think of, how
Speaker 1: about you? Those were really good. Um, when Poppy showed up,
Speaker 1: there was there was so much of me trying to
Speaker 1: play like an investigator to be like what could she
Speaker 1: possibly be doing? And right, here's this Gabriel. It was
Speaker 1: really like it caught me off guard so much like
Speaker 1: when I'm watching I was like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: wanted to be like a you know, like a like
Speaker 1: a private investigator, Right, what is there some shade going on?
Speaker 1: Who's this game real? Why is you know Serena's getting
Speaker 1: on a private plane not telling her you know, like
Speaker 1: just left the country. I was like blown away by
Speaker 1: all that. Um. And then I also thought the whole
Speaker 1: situation where Serena was dating Air and the artist and
Speaker 1: he ended up being Blair's mom's boyfriend's son. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I was wi so when that all happened, I was like,
Speaker 1: we crap. And then yeah, that was a crazy poting
Speaker 1: to me. And then I also thought everything going on,
Speaker 1: See this is wild because this was so early on
Speaker 1: in season two, but when all the things were going
Speaker 1: on with Jenny's clothing line and like working with Blair's
Speaker 1: mom and the fashion show, and that's where Poppy came in.
Speaker 1: Was that season two? Yeah, it's funny because we have
Speaker 1: a question here from Lizette Ji and that question was
Speaker 1: who actually designed those dresses in Eleanor's fashion show and
Speaker 1: the ones the Jenny design. So it's like, I guess
Speaker 1: this listener wants to know who the actual designer wasn't
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it was Eric Damon. Yeah, it must
Speaker 1: have been so it's like if it wasn't Eric, it
Speaker 1: was some other designer outfit that was you know, borrowed
Speaker 1: or lent or being showcased. But Eric was like incredible
Speaker 1: when they had to make something original. I mean it
Speaker 1: was like having the Creme de la creme making your stuff,
Speaker 1: for sure. And I remember the green dress because it
Speaker 1: was such a statement and so it was so rad.
Speaker 1: I think I'm pretty sure it was Eric Damon for
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, And we had some other questions about
Speaker 1: wardrobe too. We had um at Spooky Rynolds asked about
Speaker 1: our favorite outfits, and then at Cindy when one oh
Speaker 1: one when didn't no other we got to keep any
Speaker 1: of them. So do you have any favorite outfits from
Speaker 1: the show. You had some crazy ones, lots of bright colors, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had. There was always a little bright colors, lots
Speaker 1: of layers, lots of patterns, lots of things. Um. I
Speaker 1: always I liked Vanessa's sneakers a lot, although she did
Speaker 1: wear heels a lot, which Vanessa wasn't like in my mind,
Speaker 1: wasn't a heel girl, even though she really wore them
Speaker 1: a lot. And I did like Vanessa's like layers and
Speaker 1: all the earrings and necklaces. It was definitely a vibe.
Speaker 1: But I like when you meet Vanessa it's in season one.
Speaker 1: I really like the black bomber jacket that she's wearing
Speaker 1: and her sneakers and they're walking next to the basketball court,
Speaker 1: her and dan Um. I also like in something about
Speaker 1: v which is coming up, I think it's in season three,
Speaker 1: it's like the movie All about Eve and she wears
Speaker 1: this like beautiful gown, which you know, like a dream
Speaker 1: sequence kind of thing, and I just really the dress
Speaker 1: was beautiful. You don't really see Vanessa in like a
Speaker 1: dress like this, and um, it was just beautiful. So
Speaker 1: I love there was I don't really think a ton
Speaker 1: ton of stuff that I kept, but there was like
Speaker 1: some pieces that definitely didn't like stand my trailer, my
Speaker 1: dressing room. But it's okay, it's okay. But it's the
Speaker 1: problem with that, I think every that's a lot of
Speaker 1: people ask that. But the thing about that is it's
Speaker 1: hard because they always usually have to keep it in
Speaker 1: an archive in case you ever have to go back
Speaker 1: and reshoot something or so a lot of times it's
Speaker 1: difficult to do. So I think even on the long
Speaker 1: for the long run, because even when the show is over,
Speaker 1: those all of the stuff is still in a warehouse
Speaker 1: and they I'll tell you this anecdote, which I know
Speaker 1: from recent history, is that when I did my cameo
Speaker 1: on the New Gossip Girl, when I went in and
Speaker 1: worked on that one episode, they had my same tights
Speaker 1: my Deroda when you did the new one, but I
Speaker 1: did the new one. They just went to the old
Speaker 1: wardrobe store and pulled out That's why you can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I even though I wasn't wearing my Derota uniform
Speaker 1: in the cameo episode, in the episode in the new episode,
Speaker 1: I did wear my old tights. So it was it
Speaker 1: was really funny because I was like, all that stuff
Speaker 1: is still there in case they do a reboot ten
Speaker 1: years from now, in case they do a move, and
Speaker 1: you know who knows, so they don't want to let
Speaker 1: that stuff go. Definitely, So I think if people have something,
Speaker 1: it's be snuck it or something, you know, so we
Speaker 1: won't cupped anything. Yeah, and I wasn't. I wasn't insinuating that,
Speaker 1: but I think that it might have been something where
Speaker 1: there was like a couple of jackets or a couple
Speaker 1: of T shirts or something that I was able to write, right,
Speaker 1: let's see who else do we have here? I think
Speaker 1: it may Dr soups Doctor soups Dr soups um. During
Speaker 1: this Saving Brooklyn Bar episode, did writers think of a
Speaker 1: Chuck and Vanessa angle? That was season two episode seven
Speaker 1: Chuck in the real life. Um, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't really know when they decided to do that, because
Speaker 1: it does end up coming out that Chuck and Vanessa
Speaker 1: get together to get back at Blair and Nate. But
Speaker 1: I don't know if they like had that on the
Speaker 1: story board from jump so I couldn't answer that, but
Speaker 1: I remember them when reading it and thinking I was
Speaker 1: like shocked. I'm like, wait, why is Vanessa and Chuck
Speaker 1: getting together? Like it doesn't make sense. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: But you know how it was Jusanna, we didn't know
Speaker 1: five episodes what would come out, we know what kind
Speaker 1: of YEP episode episodes. So, um, I don't know if
Speaker 1: in that episode they were planning on you know, the
Speaker 1: night where she's in the purple dress and it is
Speaker 1: over at Chuck's and they're getting it on. So I'm
Speaker 1: not sure you're just going to see the scene. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember being shocked the same the same person. Doctor
Speaker 1: Soups wanted to know if Deronda got bored of wearing
Speaker 1: the same outfit. And I think that Deronda might have
Speaker 1: got might have been bored, but I I wasn't really
Speaker 1: because a couple of times when I got to wear
Speaker 1: something fancy, I realized, you know, how uncomfortable it is
Speaker 1: to be in something fancy. So I learned to love
Speaker 1: the housekeeper uniforms. So there's that. It was such a
Speaker 1: staple and so great and you gotta have it. It's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, could you imagine Dorota like coming up in
Speaker 1: heels and stuff when you have the glasses on, when
Speaker 1: she right right? Yeah, that's all you need a little
Speaker 1: accessory once in a while, a little spy accessory. And
Speaker 1: then we have a question from at Portal Gig Brazil
Speaker 1: again see Brazil loving Gossip Girl. Did you think it
Speaker 1: was right? When did you think it was right? And
Speaker 1: v hit the letter that Nate sent to Jenny, Who
Speaker 1: do you like Nate with no? I I And I'm
Speaker 1: only really like on this because we just finished season two. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: if you asked me that I'd be like Vanessa hit
Speaker 1: a letter. I remember watching the episode and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is she doing doing that? Don't do that? Um,
Speaker 1: I did not think that was right, and that's not
Speaker 1: really something that I feel like Vanessa would normally do.
Speaker 1: So I was kind of like, damn, girl, why would
Speaker 1: you do that? But to kind of have Vanessa's back
Speaker 1: here a little bit. Vanessa was dating Nate first, and
Speaker 1: then Jenny swung in and kind of went in there,
Speaker 1: and there was that whole thing going on. So you know,
Speaker 1: when when Vanessa felt betrayed and then lied to uh,
Speaker 1: could I maybe see why she did that? Sure? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it makes sense human nature. I don't know human nature. Man. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Vanessa is to well meaning, bighearted characters, so
Speaker 1: when she does a little something sly, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's nice because we get to see we get to
Speaker 1: see her, you know, a different side of her, just
Speaker 1: just you know the fact that she's imperfect and she
Speaker 1: also has you know, her life is not always easy,
Speaker 1: and she has things she wants and needs, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's natural human nature. I think, yeah, yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't want to say this, like you got to go
Speaker 1: and do something conniving or meaning or dishonest to like
Speaker 1: not be a pushover because that's I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1: But there are times where I'm like, see, you can't
Speaker 1: push Vanessa's buttons too much and she's not just gonna
Speaker 1: take anything. So I do like agree with with that. That. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and who did I like Nate with? I mean, let's
Speaker 1: let's go down the list with Nate real quick. From
Speaker 1: season two. It starts in the Hampton's where he's like
Speaker 1: having an affair with the cougar. Does he have something
Speaker 1: going on with Serena or maybe they fake that for
Speaker 1: a minute. Then there's Vanessa, then there's Jenny, then we
Speaker 1: meet Brie. At the end of season two. There's some
Speaker 1: options for him and Blair Blair Blair, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I did not just say that. I would have said
Speaker 1: I liked him either with Blair or Vanessa, which is
Speaker 1: funny because Vanessa and Blair couldn't be more opposite out
Speaker 1: of all those people. I would have rather seen, like
Speaker 1: the little love triangle go further with Vanessa or Blair,
Speaker 1: But you don't really want it to go with Blair
Speaker 1: because you want to see Blair with the Chuck at
Speaker 1: the end, right, So yeah, I agree the same way.
Speaker 1: I think Vanessa and Nate, that's the one that's the winner,
Speaker 1: just because it brings up, you know, different side of him.
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah. And here's another question about the
Speaker 1: Blair Nate situation from Cheechy Alexei, Um, did you want
Speaker 1: Blair to go to n party or go with Chuck?
Speaker 1: So I think that it's safe to say in the
Speaker 1: end we would kind of go down the Chuck road,
Speaker 1: and we're good with that. But there was a kind
Speaker 1: of a sweet thing in those episodes with Nate that
Speaker 1: we I think we were viving with a little bit. Yes,
Speaker 1: Like when de Rhoda and Blair are walking in Central
Speaker 1: Part and he's waiting there, and I feel like de
Speaker 1: Rhoda had set that up with Nate, right, I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't you look over and you see him
Speaker 1: standing there and you guys have like the bread for
Speaker 1: the ducks, right, I forgot want to see that, And
Speaker 1: there's just such a sweet thing. And then he didn't
Speaker 1: remember the night and the night before Nate didn't want
Speaker 1: to like kiss or hook up with Blair, but it
Speaker 1: was because he didn't want it to be in that
Speaker 1: like like in a moment like that. So now it's
Speaker 1: snowing in Central Park. It's perfectly beautiful. You got to
Speaker 1: Rhoda and Blair standing there, It's like everyone looks stunning
Speaker 1: and beautiful. And then you like are like, oh, you
Speaker 1: kind of do want Blair with Nate, you know when
Speaker 1: she gets to the apartment in that moment, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like, don't do that to Nate Blair. But then
Speaker 1: lo and behold you. You see Blair with Chalk and
Speaker 1: you're like, all right, who's Nate? Let make go be
Speaker 1: with Vanessa. No, yea, yeah, sometimes we get a complicated
Speaker 1: feelings and that's okay. Yeah. And the same person wanted
Speaker 1: to know whether we thought Gabriel had good intentions, and
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say that he did not.
Speaker 1: Although he maybe had a little bit of a maybe
Speaker 1: a bit of authentic feeling popped up for Serena here
Speaker 1: or there, but by and large no, Yeah, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: he may have like realized like, oh I like Serena,
Speaker 1: but in all in all, I he he didn't know
Speaker 1: that he liked her that way and he was using her,
Speaker 1: although I forgot that he met her when she was
Speaker 1: drugged with Georgina and that's how so maybe when he
Speaker 1: saw Serena, it was like, oh wait, I already met you,
Speaker 1: and there was a vibe. That's a good question, But
Speaker 1: all in all, I would have said no because I
Speaker 1: think he was out and even when he got to
Speaker 1: know Serena a little bit more, if those were true feelings,
Speaker 1: he had time to back out of it and not
Speaker 1: steal money and lie to everybody. And he was always
Speaker 1: going somewhere. We're like, where's where are you going? Where
Speaker 1: are you? Why aren't you going to the movie with Serena?
Speaker 1: Just go to the damn movie, Gabriel, And then he's
Speaker 1: like always gone, and we're like that's going on. So no,
Speaker 1: I don't think he had good intentions at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, Cupcake Bella. When the gang tries to expose
Speaker 1: gossip Girl at the point in season two, who do
Speaker 1: you think it was? Honestly, at first, I don't. My
Speaker 1: mind was going all over. But then remember Dan is
Speaker 1: the first person to walk in, so I was like,
Speaker 1: oh when he walked in, and obviously that was their
Speaker 1: intention for us to probably all think that, but that's
Speaker 1: where I went. And then I'm like, oh, now this
Speaker 1: is like wild because it's basically they're just saying we're
Speaker 1: all gossip Girl, like we all send in the dirt
Speaker 1: to this blog, but not in that episode or that,
Speaker 1: Like through season two when someone would be like what
Speaker 1: do you who do you think? Or is it going
Speaker 1: to come up? There was times I thought it was
Speaker 1: Deroda because she was kind of a perfect person who
Speaker 1: was involved and really heard a lot of things things
Speaker 1: but kind of unexpected to be But in in that
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't really know. I didn't really have
Speaker 1: someone specific. But when Dan first walked in, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, which is funny because he is Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it might be the only time
Speaker 1: that I ever thought it was Dan. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like right, it's like all of a sudden, You're like,
Speaker 1: I see it now, but then you know, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I feel like it's yeah. But it's always the kind
Speaker 1: of mystery that I didn't. It didn't bother me too much.
Speaker 1: I was always like more caught up with other stuff
Speaker 1: than wanting to crack who it was, you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: that cupcake Bella hasn't One last question, which is, as
Speaker 1: Vanessa and de Rhoda, what was your favorite scenes to
Speaker 1: film in season two? Do you have a favorite that
Speaker 1: stands out for you. Oh my god, there's so many
Speaker 1: I like, like some of these storylines. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: them like I can't even believe it's still the same season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because like I definitely would have said that that's that
Speaker 1: Central Park like duck feeding bread thing. That sounds like
Speaker 1: it would be my favorite scene, but I don't remember
Speaker 1: being from season two, so uh, you know, but I
Speaker 1: definitely loved always duck feeding. Yeah. I always like ducks
Speaker 1: feeding ducks. Yeah, I meant to be doing I love
Speaker 1: that in Central Park. It's like a dream. That's so awesome.
Speaker 1: I liked when Chuck and Vanessa ended up having their
Speaker 1: little like situation go down, which was very unexpected. Um
Speaker 1: that was really fun working with Ed And it was
Speaker 1: really fun because it was so outside of what Vanessa
Speaker 1: and Chuck would be doing. So that's what was also
Speaker 1: fun about this show as an actor, or I guess
Speaker 1: now even watching it, is that there would be things
Speaker 1: that you would just never put together, never match up,
Speaker 1: and they somehow intertwined it and did it, and it
Speaker 1: would it would still like make sense in a way
Speaker 1: because of whatever the people's intentions were, whatever the characters
Speaker 1: were trying to get. Um And and and I had
Speaker 1: fun working together, So yeah, I would say that little
Speaker 1: those moments. And then I also, oh, I thought the
Speaker 1: story when everyone was at the opera was like insane too,
Speaker 1: because there was just like Lillian Rufus walk up and
Speaker 1: Serena and Dan are trying to figure out if they're together,
Speaker 1: but are the parents together? And then like Vanessa's dating
Speaker 1: Nate and layers there, but she's going through all the
Speaker 1: stuff with the teacher at school and the teachers having
Speaker 1: this situation that comes up with Dan. But all this
Speaker 1: stuff is going down at the opera and I and
Speaker 1: that whole those scenes were one fun to film. We
Speaker 1: had a guest start and she had to cough like
Speaker 1: sneeze throughout the whole thing, and and when I watched
Speaker 1: it back, I was like, wow, one, that's hard to
Speaker 1: She did a great job in three. It was just
Speaker 1: also so funny, remember that those scenes being fun names
Speaker 1: what about you? I think it's just the ducks, the ducks.
Speaker 1: I love, I love beat and ducks. Yeah, it looks
Speaker 1: like the only other pressing question was from my boyfriend
Speaker 1: because he walked by while I was collecting mail bag
Speaker 1: questions and um for his firstly, his observation because he's
Speaker 1: been watching the show peripherally as I've been watching, you know,
Speaker 1: doing the rewatch. And he came up to the other
Speaker 1: day and he said, do you realize you have the
Speaker 1: same voice over as Sex in the City. And I
Speaker 1: was like, no, it's not. I was like, this is
Speaker 1: Kristen Bell and that was Sarah Jessica Parker, and he said, no,
Speaker 1: it's the same, and he was really convinced, and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I guess the vibe is similar, which
Speaker 1: is a female New Yorker commenting on the state of things.
Speaker 1: But so that was funny. Basically it's clueless, but I
Speaker 1: guess as one question was, you know, when you're filming
Speaker 1: something like Gossip Girl, like for us, what's it like,
Speaker 1: you know to sort of prepare you know, you don't
Speaker 1: get a lot of rehearsal when you're on camera, so
Speaker 1: there's like one little rehearsal that you do and then
Speaker 1: you kind of just have to film it. And like,
Speaker 1: when you're doing something funny or crazy, is it hard
Speaker 1: to know whether it's going well because it's kind of
Speaker 1: in a vacuum because you don't have an audience. So
Speaker 1: he's a stand up comic, So for him, he always
Speaker 1: wants to know, like, unless people are laughing at you,
Speaker 1: how do you know it's going well? And I actually
Speaker 1: ran into that problem as Deronda because I would do
Speaker 1: something so silly sometimes as Derota, and then it would
Speaker 1: just be quiet, and I would always need either Layton
Speaker 1: to tell me that it was funny or one of
Speaker 1: the if one of the camera guys was like, you know,
Speaker 1: had a giggle or smile, I would always think that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I did well. But it's partially why I ended up
Speaker 1: watching the show, because I wanted to see am I
Speaker 1: being too ridiculous? Or is it fun and funny? And
Speaker 1: so you know, it's hard to navigate that stuff when
Speaker 1: you're working on TV. But I think you just have
Speaker 1: to trust yourself, right, Yeah, I agree. I couldn't agree
Speaker 1: more because it it's and also, you don't want to
Speaker 1: be in your head or try to be funny, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? You want to keep them.
Speaker 1: You want to keep it, especially in a show like
Speaker 1: this where it's grounded. Yes, and the funny comes from
Speaker 1: it just just coming off the page from the performance.
Speaker 1: But I think the second you try to play funny,
Speaker 1: it's not funny. That's why things in life are exactly
Speaker 1: You're just trying to be like, yeah, but I just
Speaker 1: that's such a good question, damon, Like such a good question. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it's also hard because when you do rehearsal,
Speaker 1: sometimes when you get the laugh and a rehearsal or
Speaker 1: feel something and then you don't hear it on you know,
Speaker 1: because people can't make noise when you're actually filming, then
Speaker 1: you don't get it. You're like, wait, did it not
Speaker 1: work that time? So I don't know. I think you
Speaker 1: answered it perfectly. You really have to trust your choices
Speaker 1: and and what you're doing with it. And I just
Speaker 1: always think, don't play the funny. When you play the funny,
Speaker 1: it's that's right, it takes away from it, that's right. Well,
Speaker 1: this is fun to talk about these things that pop
Speaker 1: up from season two. I feel like that's like it
Speaker 1: was so much ground to cover in season two because
Speaker 1: so many things happen and you're like, oh, what could
Speaker 1: possibly happen in season three? Many things, I mean like
Speaker 1: really like I don't even know. Yeah, and how it
Speaker 1: ends to season two with being introduced to Scott when
Speaker 1: you see him, you know, at the cafe with Dan
Speaker 1: and Vanessa. So now you're like, wait, what's going to
Speaker 1: go down here? And like Vanessa and Dan have no
Speaker 1: idea who this is. He's you know, aware that he's
Speaker 1: trying to meet somebody. I'm sure it's his family, So
Speaker 1: what's he gonna do to get there? Right? You're planning
Speaker 1: a seed for something um to come, which is cool,
Speaker 1: and it's like yeah, and I have to say, uh,
Speaker 1: my favorite thing now about season two was rewatching it
Speaker 1: with you, So thank you for having me for all
Speaker 1: these season two episodes. It's been so fun to talk
Speaker 1: about and so it's also thrilling to me that these people,
Speaker 1: you know, have they that are listening to the show
Speaker 1: had these questions and wanted to know interact with us.
Speaker 1: I think that's really cool. So it's really fun, um
Speaker 1: fun way to wrap up season two. I think, Yes,
Speaker 1: this has been so great, so fun. You're You've been
Speaker 1: like such a breath of fresh air to like watch
Speaker 1: these with because it's very nice to to do it
Speaker 1: with someone that knows what I'm talking about and can
Speaker 1: also bring everyone that's listening and all the fans and
Speaker 1: viewers that have been so supportive and so amazing on
Speaker 1: this journey with us. It's really nice to have a
Speaker 1: partner in crime do it with me. Well, I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of these a lot of these
Speaker 1: questions were about how would we rewrite season two? So
Speaker 1: I feel like what we've learned from today's conversation is
Speaker 1: that all we really needed was a little spinoff episode
Speaker 1: with Dorota and Vanessa and they can go to the
Speaker 1: park and feed up and then go to Brooklyn and
Speaker 1: do light. So hop over to Brooklyn. So we're recreating
Speaker 1: now by talking now. Uh well, thank you all so
Speaker 1: much for writing and thank you for going on this
Speaker 1: rewatch journey with us. We are very excited to start
Speaker 1: season three, or I'll speak for myself. I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: I want to see what's going to go down, who's
Speaker 1: coming on, who's leaving, who's hooking up? Um? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so come back next week for season three episode one.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what. I have one more observation that
Speaker 1: I forgot to mention earlier. Every time we talk, I
Speaker 1: think it's so funny because we both have s z
Speaker 1: as our the beginning of our last name. Isn't that
Speaker 1: so weird? So rare? Yeah? So I feel like that's
Speaker 1: why we have a good rare. That's why we can
Speaker 1: understand gossip Girl in the way that we do. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Thank you, I never realized that. Thank you. That's funny.
Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody for the mail bag. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much everyone. Okay, and that is it. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much everyone for submitting your questions. You made this episode possible.
Speaker 1: I just cannot believe that season two is over. I
Speaker 1: had such a great time walking down memory Lane. But
Speaker 1: moving on. We will be back next week for season three,
Speaker 1: Episode one, Reversals of Fortune, picking back up with Chuck
Speaker 1: and Laren, loved Hum, Freason, Hampton's and Mods Moore. Because
Speaker 1: it is gossip Girl all right, until next time. Xl
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Speaker 1: Our producers are Diego Tapia, Kristin Vermilia, Emily Carr, and
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