WEBVTT - S2 Mailbag 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:20.600 M Welcome back, listeners to your one and only source 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.880 into all things gossip. Growth. You know you'll love it. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:31.320 XO x O. Hi everyone, I'm your host, Jessica's or. Okay, So, 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.680 last week my girls, Usana and I wrapped up our 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:38.479 season two re watches with the incredible director Norman Buckley. Gosh, 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.520 I love him so much. It brought up so many 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.239 memories for the season, and we realized that before we 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.640 move on to season three, we would like to touch 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.159 on everything season two. So for today's a very special 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.480 episode of XO XO, we are going to be doing 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.560 a mail bag episode and answering all of your questions. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.480 And this has been so much fun in the past. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.560 I love doing these because I feel like I get 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.800 to know you all a little bit more and hopefully 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.200 it makes your journey on this rewatch ride with us 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.920 more fun for all of you as well. So we'll 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.880 be getting into behind the scenes memories, fashion, favorite characters, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:30.000 and more. So let's get into it. Hello everyone, Hello, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.640 nice is Anna, Hi, how are we doing good. I'm 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.000 back from London. I was in London on a little job. Okay, yeah, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:43.039 tell me about London. Yes, I just got back from London, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.520 and I'm excited to be back to talking gossip Girl. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.600 Even though I did talk a lot of gossip Girl 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.600 in London, because a lot of Gossip Girl fans in London. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.320 I was really surprised. I got stopped on the street 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.240 so much more than I do in New York, so 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.520 I thought, wow, this is um it's definitely a save 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:05.360 for the Brits. Oh and it was funny because I 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.000 took some photos and some pubs. You know of a 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.160 lot of pub photos, pub selfies, and um, I got 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:19.120 I got spotted on the tube. Um. No, but I 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.119 went to see my friend do a play and that's 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.240 what you went for. Yeah, I went to see my 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.960 friend in a play. He's doing the Tammy Fay Musical. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.079 And we had to stand in a queue in order 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:30.639 to see the play. And we stayed in a flat 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:32.680 and we stood in an Airbnb flat and we went 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.360 on the tube. No, but it was it was really fun. 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.760 I've never really been for a substantial visit, so it 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.639 was nice. But I did get a lot of gossip 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.920 rol up, so it was cool. So um, I'm glad 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.280 to be back now. And it's it's fun that we 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.480 now get to answer listener questions questions. Yeah, it's like 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.840 back in the fan mode. So that was fine, and 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.600 I just I love London so much. I actually when 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.560 we were filming Gossip Girl, I used to go all 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.160 the time, like when we'd have little breaks or just 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.399 for fun or because he had a heighted for holidays. Well, um, 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.200 I would go with d a lot. Oh sure, of 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.240 course from outside of London, so we would go a lot. Yeah, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.280 so I got to like experience London from someone who's like, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.520 you know, from there, which I like and love. You know. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:15.920 I thought about Ed when I was there. I was 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.080 when I walked around, I thought, what wouldn't it be 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.160 great if I ran into Ed? But I did not. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.720 I looked for him on every around, every corner. No, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.320 but it was fun. Oh good, I'm glad you had 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.000 a good time. And I'm glad you got to meet 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.960 some of the Gossip Girl fans. That's so fun and exciting, 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.760 so many of them. So that was really exciting because 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.320 you know, that's part of what's cool about the show 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.080 is that it is like internationally beloved, you know, and 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.800 you don't think of that, but sometimes when we get 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.560 on social media and you see, like we have fans 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.880 in Brazil and England and all over the place, so 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.080 that's all over exciting. It is. It's it's so funny 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.320 and interesting because you, yeah, you just sometimes you just 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:58.960 don't think about it. You were doing, you know, doing 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.200 your job. And then I'll we were in Italy ones 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.760 and I remember Brad and I sitting at a cafe 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.920 here that's better to just tell the story, and some 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.320 girls came up and and Brad has never really seen 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.800 the show and we had met well after I was 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.320 on it, so he was like, I just can't believe 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.480 how big this show is. He's like, I remember hearing 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.080 about it, but he's like, we're like at a small 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.560 cafe in Italy, in this little town. Like he's like, 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.919 it's crazy. And then we went to another part of 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.680 Italy and it was kind of happening there and he 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.080 was just like, Wow, people really love the show. So 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:33.960 you don't really think about it until you are somewhere 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.159 somewhere else and you're like, oh, they played it here 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.400 and you guys liked it. I know, it's really it 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:43.360 really does translate, you know, by the way, do you think, 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.560 like are people watching it with subtitles and like Vanessa 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.680 speaking Italian and Dorota speaking Italian, or they watching like 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.680 an American version. Well, to my sensibility, I think that 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.800 probably nowadays they watched and streamers, maybe they watched it 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.760 in the original language. But back in the day, like 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.479 I know for a fact that like in Poland, the 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.600 way they do TV there is they have like the dubbing. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.720 It's like kind of like this weird voice. No, this 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.320 one voice reads like all the parts. It's really weird, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.240 but so you can hear us underneath, and then there's 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.120 like this dubbing, and then I think in other countries 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.359 we're dubbed fully with other voices, so you know, And 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.839 in fact, I'm sure of it because I saw somebody's 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.719 sent me a Spanish version from you. Yeah, and it's 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.000 totally different actors or voicing us, So it's like some 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.159 Spanish actress. Yeah, it's kind of fun you get to see. Yeah, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.680 you got to check it out, because I feel like 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.480 we have to google it and find like a funny 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:41.159 version of ourselves. I'm doing that for sure before we 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:45.320 come back here next week. That is hilarious because oh 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.800 my gosh, I can't imagine. That's also must be very 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.360 technical and hard to do, but I'm going to look 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.440 that up for sure. Um. Okay, so we're here and 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:58.000 doing a mail bag episode because we finished season two, 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.400 we're gonna be getting into season three. And yeah, we 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.640 figured if there wasn't something we touched on or talked 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.039 about in one of the episodes of the podcast, that 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.440 you guys just right in and we can kind of 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:12.080 discuss it here and give you know, talk about it here. Um, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:17.080 so should we just dive right in? Absolutely, let's do it. Yeah. Okay, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:22.120 So we have Baldwin and it is out of all 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:26.800 of season two? What was your favorite episode to rewatch? 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:31.800 They said there's was season two episode, which is the finale. Actually, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.000 I agree because to me, the finale is always fun 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.280 to see how things wrap up, and I also the 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.279 watching of the finale was fun, and then also the 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.640 talking to Norman about the finale was really fun because 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.800 we got all that behind the scenes stuff. So to me, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.920 that was a fun one. I'm like enjoying so much 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:51.840 of it. It's not to say that every single one 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.000 was my favorite, but there's just bits and pieces of it, 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.520 like even you know, when we're going to start with 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.880 the finale having to be introduced who plays Scott, like 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.839 having one Poppy and Gabriel came on. That whole storyline 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.880 with Serena was wild to me because I didn't remember 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.960 any of that. Um Like, I'm liking watching and going 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.640 on this roller coaster with um, Chuck and Blair. I 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.440 also really liked one of Norman's other episodes, which is 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.240 when they when the girls were fighting about going to school. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.960 I don't know if that was my favorite. I don't 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.280 know if I have a favorite. That's so ridiculous, I 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.679 should really have one. Well, the one with we would 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.760 like too is the one with the flashback the um 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:36.360 the one to girls one was really fun too because 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.400 it was so different, So yeah, it's yeah. I also 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:45.880 when to Rhoda when she had when she sneaks into 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.960 the bathroom and has all the things that she like took, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.840 Was it everyone's phones that you had and you had 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.160 the sunglasses on and you come into the school bathroom, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.920 the school bathroom? Yeah yeah, um, I think that. Yeah, 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:02.640 I like any de Rhota snooping. Yeah, it was so funny. 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.720 I was I was like in stitches laughing, like, look 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.160 at Toronto with those cute glasses. It was too funny. Yeah, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.520 Deronda Undercover is the best. It's the best. Yeah, that's 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.960 a good Halloween costume. Actually, okay, yeah, you know when 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.360 of the years The Girl was on the air, it 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.080 was there was some list in like New York magazine 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.000 or something, and Deronda was one of the top ten costumes. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.400 And I was so excited because I was like that 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.600 to me felt like really special. I was like, oh, 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:33.080 that's cool. Yeah, that's prety easy one to do. You know. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.520 You just gotta get a little headband and you're good. Um, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:43.360 throw some glasses on. It's like Deronda being undercover. Um, okay, 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.360 let's move on. A similarly large question for us, which 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.240 will be hard to answer, is from uh Louisa DEM's 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.520 um and this person said, who was your favorite character 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.960 from the show and why it's hard to pick a character? 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.760 But man, yeah, I mean a lot of me wants 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.120 to say it's really hard. You know, I would have 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.880 to because of my personal allegiances of Deronda nous. But 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:13.199 I feel like I love yeah so many And I mean, 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.840 can you say that like Deronda? I love? Of course? 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:26.040 Why not? Why not? I love that? Yes? But you know, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.079 I guess maybe we could narrow her or this person's 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:34.960 question down to like what season two characters our favorite? Like, um, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:39.680 you know that would mean like Poppy and who else? 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:47.720 Who else comes through? Um, Gabriel. There was also Willa 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:52.600 who plays um with Jenny. She's like puts all of 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.800 her stuff on fire. That was a wild storyline. I 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.800 don't know. There's a part of me that once I 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.040 would say Blair, and then there's a big part of 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.560 me for season two that I think the journey that 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.679 Chuck goes on from the things with Blair, losing his dad, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:13.800 being the families combining, like you know, moving in with Serena, 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.480 going through the heartbreak and the love triangle with Nate 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.520 and Blair. I think Chuck took me on a real 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.760 roller coaster with all these different things going on in 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.040 his life. That's a really good point. And so much vulnerability, yeah, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:29.679 like he has to go through. Yeah, he has to 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.320 make him so vulnerable. Yeah, And at the end he 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.200 really comes through and does the sweetest thing at the 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.760 problem for Blair, like make sure that she wins and 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.040 that's was the night she wanted. Even though he was 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.680 madly is madly in love with her, he still put 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.400 all of that aside and watched the girl that he 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.520 loves up there on the stage crowning each other with 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.080 with Nate his best friend, which is really that's like 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:56.400 so selfless and so love is supposed to be, and 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.640 it works out for him because in the end stands 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.520 up with him. That's a good one. That's agree. I 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.800 guess I'm gonna go Chuck. I agree. And then another 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:10.240 piggyback question on that comes from at portal GG brazil Um, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.560 who asks about the favorite couple. So, I guess you 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.160 know a couple of wis I guess both of us 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.160 are leading towards Chuck and Blair. But I'm gonna say 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:27.200 Nate and Vanessa. No. I liked their moment. I mean, yeah, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.520 you want Chuck and Blair, but there is a moment 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:35.319 where I really enjoy you know what. For season two, Uh, 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.520 Serena and Dan were just two back and forth. I'm like, 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.719 do you guys want to be together or not? Like, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.840 at least we know what Chuck and Blair they want 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.640 to be together and it's their game. Serena and Dan 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.440 are like unsure all the way around about all of 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.480 it and it's just started. Yeah, and I like Serena 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.280 and Dan together, but their whole back and forth with 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.840 really not being sure kind of like started getting to me. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.960 Chuck and Blair's black and forth thing was a game 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.880 that I was like, okay with you know what I mean, 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.920 I'm gonna have to say Chuck and Blair. Yeah, Gabriel 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:13.520 and Poppy and I'm just kidding, Gabriel and Serena, Gabriel, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:18.000 Serena and the director from the play. No I think that. No, 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.440 I guess I'll add Chuck and Blair definitely. But then 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.960 I also will put in a little word for um 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.679 Lily and Rufus because even though it's like they come 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.480 together and then they fall apart and then they have 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.720 that cute little engagement with the fake little ring he 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.400 puts on her when they make up, so I feel 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.280 like I'll give them second place. Yeah, I wasn't even 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.960 thinking about those two, you know what. I also did 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.959 really like Nate and Vanessa's moment on here. But here's 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.200 the thing, now, when I think about it, for the series, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.280 I'll probably would say I would probably say Chuck and Blair, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.440 But I don't know for season two because there was 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.600 so much like when he lost his dad what he 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.240 was going through and like trying to numb himself and 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.560 like being with all these different girls and doing drugs 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:11.000 and things like that were so that was very hard 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.880 to watch him go through that and watch Blair see 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.240 him go through that. But then again, that's also how 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.480 much she cares for him. Yeah, I'm just not answering it. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.120 I'm like, let me just go through everyone. Yeah, because 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.120 I feel like it's just the nature of this show 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:29.960 is that the couples keep keep a changing. So yeah, yeah, 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.240 what else do we have here? Yes? And Hi to Brazil? 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.520 Was that the Brazilian Yes? Hi, Hi there, and I 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.400 have to say Hi to Brazil is major because I 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.960 think that Brazil has the most Gossip Girl fans of 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.600 any country. Um, every time I've met someone from Brazil, 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.600 they have been the most enthusiastic and gossip Girl loving fans. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:55.000 So I'm giving a major high to Brazil. And uh, yeah, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.400 that's great. So I'm glad they're listening to the podcast. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:14.239 That's big hugs. Yes, Um, okay, where are we we have? Um? 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.920 Leo Barrol Calm. It's hard to say these handles on loud. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.680 I think they're meant to be seen. The bibeballs. Um, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.960 they want to know what character we would have liked 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.120 to have interacted more with in season two? Um, I 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.479 guess as actors are our characters. I guess right, Um, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.960 did you get enough of Nate? Do you think that 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.120 Vanessa enough of Nate or would you rather Yeah? I 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.080 would have liked that to go a little bit longer. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.200 I think that they had like a good chemistry, a 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.720 good vibe. I think the person that Vanessa is, I 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.800 think Nate really liked that she is very different from 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.080 the girls on the Upper east Side. And I think 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.000 that Vanessa getting to know Nate more, that's what she 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:59.160 really liked about him. He is very um different than 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.640 than this group that she has a hard time fitting 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.400 in with. UM. But I did like their little chemistry 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.880 and their vibe, and I think they enjoyed each other. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.760 And at the very end when they were doing the 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.080 school play, they kind of get into a little tiff 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.040 about you know, watching ESPN or reading a play or 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.160 reading a book. And then that night she like orders 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.400 in and has the ESPN on and he is like 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.800 reading the book. So I thought that was really cute 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.800 that they were both trying to, you know, make the 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:29.800 other one feel comfortable and get to know what the 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.240 other one likes more, and I just thought they had 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:36.800 a real sweet, little dynamic situation going on. So for 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.640 for me, my answer would be that those two their 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.880 little love story one a little longer. I actually really 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:44.880 agree with that because I think that, yeah, you want 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.040 to see those two sides of those characters kind of 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.560 pop out more. And I also really just like, um, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.520 I like those two characters together. I think it's fun um. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.320 If I had to be interact with anyone more, it 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.160 would be basically everyone, because I feel like they just 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.640 wasn't enough to Rota and season there, so I think 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.400 season three, yeah, there's more Derota. It's like it was 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.200 a slow boil. So it's like season one there was 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.520 very little Deronda, and then over time it grows and grows. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.360 So by season three, I get to have more fun 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.920 scenes with different people. But I don't think De Rota 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.440 ever had a direct scene with Vanessa, so that would 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.360 have been fun um. I feel like one Nowel de 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.720 Rone and Nate were in the same room, but rarely, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.720 so there's lots of people I would revisit, and you know, 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.840 let to Ronto have some scenes with for sure, that 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.360 would have been cool, you know, but it's also like 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.560 that's selfishly as an actor. But I feel like watching 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.840 the show, it's actually kind of fun because when Toronto 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.040 pops up, it's like just when you need her, you know, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.680 as an audience. Sorry, it's fine. Um yeah, And it's 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.720 actually kind of funny because like at episodes eighty eight 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.720 asked if you could have written Vanessa's character, I guess 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.360 speaking to you, Jess in season two, what would she 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.200 have been like or done? So, like if you were 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.640 in that writer's room, like if you were part of 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.159 that decision making process, but would you have changed the 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:09.240 trajectory for that character? Do you think? Well, I feel like, 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.720 and I've said this to you, I feel like now 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.080 watching back, I do feel like Vanessa's let down a lot. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.199 And that has to do with, you know, whether you 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.520 know she's letting things she lets things go and then 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.320 goes back and doesn't hold you know, brudges or right, 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.200 wants to look at the positive side of the situations 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.200 that are going down. But I think that she's not 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.520 used to throwing people under the bus to get what 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.880 you want, Like that's just not the way. But she's 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.000 in situations a lot where she's like, well, why wouldn't 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.560 you just say that? Or Okay, we don't like each other, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.200 that's just you don't have to say that right here. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:45.760 You know, we've talked about some of the funny line 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.680 she's like, I'm standing right here when she says it 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.680 to Blair when Blair is just super mean. Yes, yes, 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.920 that's like such a moment. Yeah, I just I'm like, wow. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.520 She always just seems kind of like let down and 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.239 not like sad, but kind of sad, and I'm like, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.880 oh r V. I guess there's part of me as 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.080 like a person. If that was my friend, I'd be like, Vanessa, 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.640 then don't be around those people anymore. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.119 It's like if I could write a little capsule episode, 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.800 you know, for Vanessa, it would I would be interested 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.240 to see if she was like screw the Upper east Side, 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.360 like I'm you know, I'm not getting what I want 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.320 here and she just totally went off for like a 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.560 weekend and did a horrible whole other thing. It would 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.760 be kind of fun to see that side of Vanessa, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.920 you know that what Yeah, like who's she hanging out with? 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.080 Who's she making out with? But at the same time, 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.400 I feel like your performance and the way the role 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.440 is written, it's like all of that is implied there, 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.159 you know, so it's like I kind of know, I 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.639 can imagine that, so I don't in a way. It's like, 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.520 what's interesting is how she, you know, functions in this world, 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.720 so we have a good sense of who she is. 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.960 She's really fleshed out. So it's like watching her bump 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.800 up against Dan and Serena and Blair. It's like, that's 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.120 where the juicy stuff is, I guess. So it makes 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:59.119 sense Vanessa Vanessa, um, what what about you? Would you 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.720 have rewritten some for her? No? Would you know? I mean, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.960 I think, you know. It's like, uh, I just felt 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:07.760 like every time I got a script and I was 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.040 in it, I was like, whoa you know? For me, 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.399 I never yeah, I told you before. I always thought 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.600 I never thought I would ever be in the next episode. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.640 So every time I was, I was like, oh, yeah, 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.119 I'm I'm still around. I always the one thing I 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.000 didn't want to see was like Derota falling down the 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.080 stairs to her death. So as long as as long 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.720 as I was around, I'm good, I'm good. No one 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:33.800 wanted to see that. Okay, Next question, Taylor's mom Moms 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.080 is favorite season two plotlines is what what she wants 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:43.080 to know? All right, you go ahead. Um, I guess uh. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.320 I liked the stuff with them Blair and the minions, 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.239 like the idea that they were trying to undercut her, 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.159 Like I'm always interested in that friend group. So the 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.840 sort of Queen Bee being like Queen Bee being unqueened, 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.600 and then whether Jenny was going to take over. So 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.560 I feel like that. I like the idea of that 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.959 story line. And um, the mom daughter stuff with Serena 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.320 and Lily and then when c C was sort of 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.280 brought into the picture and then we had the flashback. 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.119 So I like all those mom daughter issues that we 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.000 see on the Serena Lily side. I think those are 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.159 kind of the two things that I think of, how 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:21.760 about you? Those were really good. Um, when Poppy showed up, 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.520 there was there was so much of me trying to 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.760 play like an investigator to be like what could she 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.480 possibly be doing? And right, here's this Gabriel. It was 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.760 really like it caught me off guard so much like 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:34.320 when I'm watching I was like, oh my god, I 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.679 wanted to be like a you know, like a like 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.960 a private investigator, Right, what is there some shade going on? 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.400 Who's this game real? Why is you know Serena's getting 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.719 on a private plane not telling her you know, like 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.399 just left the country. I was like blown away by 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.520 all that. Um. And then I also thought the whole 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:58.639 situation where Serena was dating Air and the artist and 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:03.800 he ended up being Blair's mom's boyfriend's son. I'm like, 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:09.359 I was wi so when that all happened, I was like, 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:15.200 we crap. And then yeah, that was a crazy poting 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:18.199 to me. And then I also thought everything going on, 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.240 See this is wild because this was so early on 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:22.240 in season two, but when all the things were going 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:26.720 on with Jenny's clothing line and like working with Blair's 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:29.920 mom and the fashion show, and that's where Poppy came in. 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.280 Was that season two? Yeah, it's funny because we have 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:36.399 a question here from Lizette Ji and that question was 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.199 who actually designed those dresses in Eleanor's fashion show and 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:42.320 the ones the Jenny design. So it's like, I guess 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.760 this listener wants to know who the actual designer wasn't 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.360 I'm pretty sure it was Eric Damon. Yeah, it must 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:50.280 have been so it's like if it wasn't Eric, it 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.000 was some other designer outfit that was you know, borrowed 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.960 or lent or being showcased. But Eric was like incredible 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:58.960