Reboot of "Gossip Girl": "No one can embody a new Blair Waldorf!"Consives Emily Alyn Lind

C’est la rentrée pour les élèves de St Jude et Constance Billiard ! Warner TV diffuse ce mardi à 20h55 la nouvelle série Gossip Girl, qui se déroule dans le même univers que la série culte d’origine, à savoir l’Upper East Side, mais dix ans plus tard, avec de tous nouveaux personnages. Parmi eux, la perfectionniste et sophistiquée Audrey Hope, que les médias américains décrivent comme la nouvelle Blair Waldorf.

What does actress Emily Alyn Lind (Revenge) think, with whom 20 minutes exchanged in Visio, who lends her features to the heroine?

You were a child when "Gossip Girl" was broadcast.Have you seen the original series?What relationship do you have with her?

Yes, I saw her!But I tried to put the original series a little from a distance.Joshua Safran really wanted to create a new entity.

This version, however, shares the DNA of the original series, right?

Yes, I say that as if it were a different entity, but it takes place in the same world and many of these young people are replicas.They are the product of their education and their life in the Upper East Side.These children of wealthy entrepreneurs or the fashion industry is interesting because the dynamics of relationships with their parents are really complicated.There was this in the original series.There is this Freudian dimension in the manner of "you are what you eat", "you are raised to become what you are".These young people are the product of the same environment as ten years ago.It is a question of sitting on the same steps, of going to the same places ... Gossip Girl made her farewell ten years ago, she reappears ten years later.All this will affect them differently due to social networks, and this new generation.But there are similarities in the way they were raised.

And how do you think social networks have changed things?

I don't really know because I am not invested in social networks as I should be in our time!I try to stick to a healthy limit because it can be hard.I am happy like that.It would be much more difficult for me to show me and work with all these comments.I just want to do what I do, and when people can receive it, they do it ... I am not the right person to ask!

What do you like about Audrey, your character?

When you make a movie, you know the whole trajectory of your character.When it comes to television, you discover with each scenario that you receive new facets with which playing each week.You approach your character may be different from when you started, a bit like in life.The reason I fell in love with Audrey is that I was able to experience new things, just as young people do when they grow up.I really like Audrey's humor.At first, she hid a lot behind the irony.She also has this gentle side, and lack of insurance.It is very pleasant to discover the different aspects of your personality as we would with anyone

How would you describe relationships with her mother, fashion designer?

Audrey lives with her mother, Kiki.Her husband cheated on her with her assistant and they are divorced.Their mother/daughter link is very interesting.They can be awful, shoot themselves in the legs, push themselves at the end, but also be connected in a beautiful way as if there was no stronger link.I am very lucky to work with Laura Benanti.She is a wonderful actress and some of my favorite scenes are with them.

Audrey is in a sort of love triangle with her boyfriend Aki and Max?

Yes.After going through the forties, trouble in paradise?Something is happening when Audrey and Aki meet Max for the first time on the day of the school year.And they don't know what it is.But they both feel it.Let's say there is a great tension between them!

In the American media, Audrey is presented as the new Blair Waldorf, what do you think of this comparison?

The idea was not to have characters related to the original series.No one wants a new Blair Waldorf and no one can play a new Blair Waldorf ... there would be too much pressure to do that.There have also been a lot of comparisons between Chuck and Max.There are some similarities, linked to their environment and the way they were raised.But there is no comparison in terms of intrigue.

Are you a big fashion fan, tell us a bit about Audrey's wardrobe?Have you had your word to say?

Our costume tree, Eric Daman, was the costume designer of the original version of Gossip Girl.He's a genius.I have been doing this job since the age of five and it is one of the favorite costumers.He's so good in what he does.He has no difficulty collaborating with the actors.He makes sure we are comfortable.These costumes help us know our character.This affects the way we play.I like the clothes that are marked by history and time.This is how I feel good.Some claws like Gucci, Dior or Saint Laurent have an incredible story.Even if I hate this word, they are iconic and bring another form of art.This is what I experienced with Eric and I am very grateful to him.

What are your future projects?

I am in the process of adapting a book called Chocolates for Breakfast of Pamela Moore.This is a book written in the 1950s, which recalls Sylvia Plath a lot and which no one has heard.I'm going to adapt it and do it, it's my baby.I put the music a little aside!And above all I will soon shoot season 2 of Gossip Girl.