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Next month marks a decade since Gossip Girl first graced the small screen (are you feeling old yet?) and the cast of the hit CW show are in a reflective mood.
Blake Lively, who played Serena van der Woodsen in the teen drama, has revealed that she’d given up on acting when she was offered the life-changing role.
“I realised that [acting] was a business as much as a craft,” she tells Vanity Fair in a new interview.
“People will go see your movie based on your standing and all of that, and it didn’t make sense to me because I was 18 and being an artist.
“[So] I said, ‘No, I want to go to college. Thank you, though.’”
So what changed her mind? CW executives promised Lively she would be given time in her filming schedule to attend classes at New York’s Columbia University.
“Then they said, ‘Okay, you can go to Columbia one day a week. After the first year [of the show], it’ll quiet down. Your life will go back to normal and you can start going to school. We can’t put it in writing, but we promise you can go.’ So that’s why I said, ‘Okay. You know what? I’ll do this.’”
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Blake, who just turned 30, knows that her role on Gossip Girl was the gateway to greater things – like Woody Allen’s Café Society – and it’s for this reason she says she’s not totally against a reunion or revival, like Gilmore Girls or Will & Grace.
“I imagine we all would [consider it]. I can’t speak for everyone else, but we all owe so much to this show, and I think that it would be silly not to acknowledge that.”
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