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Casting Secrets From “Gossip Girl”
David Rapaport has helped cast Gossip Girl, 90210, Arrow, and The Flash. For the first time, he talks about auditioning the actors who became iconic faces of The CW.
I think at the end of the day, we tested Blake, Katie Cassidy, who is now on Arrow. We did a screen test with her and the note we got back was that she was ‘sunny California’ and they said, ‘I don’t think we’ll buy her as an Upper East Side debutante.’ And Josh said, ‘Well, Mischa Barton is from New York and I sold her as a sunny California girl; there’s no reason people won’t.’ So we did another screen test with Blake and all we did was straighten her hair to make her look a little more sophisticated, so to speak. “Leighton is a little bit colder than Blake but I like that,” I think the network initially pitched us Ashley Olsen and Rumer Willis for Blair and Serena
“We read him initially for Nate,” Rapaport said. “He read on tape in London and flew out to read for Chuck. He’s menacing and scary. but there’s a twinkle in his eye. You want to hate him, but you would also probably sleep with him. “It’s funny because on a network like The CW, where beauty does come first a lot, and you’re selling the fantasy of this world, it was a lot about the looks, so we had to balance that out with the guys and Ed Westwick wasn’t as traditionally handsome as Chace Crawford, but I found him much sexier and darker and edgier.”
Seriously, Rumer as Serena?
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