XOXO, Upper East Siders. Chuck Bass is getting married and Lily van der Woodsen is invited.
“I miss that character, but I still keep in touch with almost everyone on the show. “I’m going to Ed (Westwick’s) wedding and I’m very excited,” “Gossip Girl” star Kelly Rutherford admitted at the French TV Mania series festival.
In the show “Still Relevant,” she played the witch mother of Serena, played by Blake Lively.
This was all before this politically correct time. We’ve been up to it and there’s a different energy about it. “After the first season, we knew (it was huge).”
“Gossip Girl” ended in 2012.
“The women I grew up with were very elegant, but I had never seen a mother like that on TV. I didn’t realize how much people loved Lily – until now. At first, it was all about these kids. We were just… Fathers. Then they started writing to us more.
“Lily was a fierce mother, but when you’re young, you don’t realize all the things your parents deal with. They have their own problems, they make mistakes. (In ‘GG’) you get to see that parents aren’t perfect. That’s what’s great about it.” , she noted, admitting that she would “love” to do it again.
However, the now-canceled reboot of the show, which premiered on HBO Max in 2021, featured an entirely new cast.
“It would be interesting if it was like ‘Star Wars’ and a few of us came back to pass the torch or the lightsaber. I think they thought it was easier to create a new environment.”
She said Rutherford enjoys looking at the craziest moments on the show.
“There were times when we would read the script in the morning and some people would say, ‘I would never say this, I would never do this.’ Oh yes – she will. We all have this beautiful perception of ourselves, but we are dynamic beings. Lily will make mistakes and recover; And being able to acknowledge that as a mother was huge.
A new mother at the time of filming brought her son to the audition.
“It was a last-minute thing. You can hardly shower as a new mom, but I showered and went in there and just read from the page. My son was 6 months old when we started. Later, I was pregnant during the third season, gave birth during the hiatus and came back right away.” It was a gift to play a mother like Lily.
He was recently cast in the French Prime Video series ‘Escort Boys’ directed by Ruben Alves – “I grew up watching Deneuve, Bardot and Moreau and The Double Life of Véronique is one of my favorite films. ‘It was another way to expand as an actress’ – Rutherford also spoke about her early days In the series “Ajyal”.
“I was nervous. I called my mother and said, ‘I don’t think I can do it.’ She said, ‘Just set your goals and say your lines, and don’t worry about them being great.'” The really nice thing about doing series early in your career is that you’re writing… An entire script in one day. “It’s like boot camp, really,” she recalls.
“I had to go and ask for a raise for my pay on the show, which was interesting. That was my first experience being brave.”
Later, on “Melrose Place,” she worked alongside last year’s ‘Mania guest Marcia Cross as an escort hired to sleep with her husband, who then became her best friend.
“You have to start somewhere with these characters, and the more outrageous things are, the better. We had so many episodes, so the writers had to come up with some crazy stuff.”
“I’ve always been a tomboy, so playing this role was very funny. To play the ‘sexy lady’. It was one of the first shows where fashion was an important part of everything. Aaron Spelling wanted to be fashionable. He paid us very well and doesn’t Everyone did it. And remember everyone’s name! What an extraordinary product.
She continued to express herself through fashion, gaining millions of followers along the way and describing her style as “not too flashy, but still cute.” I think that’s what this “quiet luxury” is all about.
“I’ve always loved it and that’s what went into acting. It helped me ‘feel’ my roles,” she comments on some of her “empowering” characters.
“When it comes to empowering women, it’s about being it rather than talking about it. Sometimes we forget that we’re all here to shine the light and we have to find ways to do that. It’s like Jedi training. We have to get in touch with that powerful side of ourselves. We have become We are already capable, we just have to live up to it.”
Although she’s already escaped Ghostface in “Scream 3” as Cotton Weary’s ill-fated girlfriend — “It’s funny that Liev Schreiber was rehearsing his lines in ‘Hamlet’ at the same time” — she’d like to tackle an action movie next. She said. Or, yes, even “Star Wars.”
“I could be a Jedi mother, to keep the whole mother thing going. Or Chewbacca. He has a great costume.”