And the big, show-ending reveal of Gossip Girl's identity-one Mr. The surprise cameos were miraculously kept secret, and squeal-worthy. Chuck and Blair didn't just end up together-they had TV's most adorable son. After that song ends and we pull out of the window of our townhouse, "Kill Me" by Pretty Reckless, Taylor Momsen's band, comes up, and we're back out in the street with a new crop of kids and the voice of Gossip Girl is back.įinale note: Whatever your feelings about the past few seasons of Gossip Girl, you gotta admit, the finale last night was pretty dang close to perfection. It was that moment of joy and closure and really feel like the show was ending and then start it back up again. It's Florence and the Machine covering that Source song. Why did you use the final song of Sex and the City finale as your final finale song? It's not the final song. Her ability to raise money and get behind causes, and that's probably what she's doing. We saw a glimpse this year of her philanthropic powers. We know Serena ended up with Dan, but where is she professionally? Serena is a powerful force in the New York social scene. And then we realized that Jack and Georgina had never met, and so we had the opportunity to have a fun little pilot story where it's just slight but getting them together for the first time, which was super fun. We have to work around his Dexter schedule which means we only got him for one episode this season. We always talked about them being in some ways the male and female versions of each other and perfect for each other. Where can we start a petition for a spinoff with Jack and Georgina? Did you consider doing a whole storyline with them earlier? Always. But somebody either paid someone to get into the apartment across the street, or used a fire escape and used a telephoto lens, and that really upset me because I didn't want anyone to know. We worked really hard to dress Blake inside, she kept away from the windows. But Dan and Serena, that was really disappointing and upsetting. Was that expected or were you disappointed that happened? The Chuck and Blair wedding, we knew as soon as we stepped outside, it would be captured by the paparazzi. The paparazzi got wedding photos of Chuck and Blair and Dan and Serena. We didn't send dailies out, we didn't send out to international partners, we didn't send the last two acts to anyone. And Rachel Bilson and Kristen Bell shot on the set of Hart of Dixie. She did her cameo on the set of Carrie Diaries and it's Carrie Bradshaw's '80s kitchen she's standing in.
It was all very dramatic with him coming in the back door so the paparazzi wouldn't see him and we shot inside. With Mayor Bloomberg, were able to shoot in the city when he was available. How hard was it to keep the cameos a secret? We were so happy that none of them got out. What about this time and what about that other time? Wait, you wrote this about yourself?! My hope is that people who are really curious about that can go back and rewatch the season and get their brains going.
Some fans have a lot of questions about why Dan did certain things… We could have made the show two hours long with just Rufus drilling Dan about all of those things. So we actually had to re-edit that sequence. It's when he's on the computer looking at Gossip Girl, the way it was edited that he was typing as the voice was coming up, people thought that they were being told that he was Gossip Girl. We actually had to re-edit one of our sequences. Interestingly, in the pilot episode, the test audience thought that Dan was Gossip Girl.
It was whether we were going to reveal it.
It was important that you felt they had a very loving, warm bond and that everybody was happy.ĭid you always know Gossip Girl would be Dan? Were there any other names tossed out? We never really entertained any other ideas of who Gossip Girl was. Rufus and Lily, that was something that was great about the Dan and Serena wedding, was that Rufus and Lily are now connected to each other forever through their children.
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William is going to let her enjoy her teacup full of gin and be as much like her mother as she's likely going to become. Bart Bass was a little bit too psychotic and William kind of split the difference. When you think about the core of Lily's character, she really tried to make it work with Rufus but at the end of the day, that was too hard for her. Some people were upset that Lily and Rufus didn't end up together.