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Jessica Szohr played Vanessa Abrams on The CW’s original “Gossip Girl”, one of the show’s most polarizing characters, and now the actress is returning to host a new podcast looking back at the show.
In the first edition of “XOXO with Jessica Szohr”, she opens up about playing a character that fans sometimes loved to hate.
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However, she also admitted she wasn’t always thrilled with some of the antics the show’s writers cooked up for Vanessa. “I feel like [Vanessa] definitely got the short end of the stick,” Szohr said.
“Vanessa was funny to me because there were so many parts of her that I really liked,” she added. “There were other parts where I would think ‘Why is she on the Upper East Side again?’ When she hooked up with Chuck, I was thinking, ‘Why hook up with Chuck? Why is Chuck hooking up with her?'”
Ultimately, Szohr came to realize the backlash her character received was both deserved and intentional. “Some of the stuff that was written [in the show] was cringe-worthy and was annoying,” she explained. “So if I annoyed you and you cringed at Vanessa, then I was doing my job, because some of the stuff was that way,” Jessica said.
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As for negative feedback from fans, Szohr said it didn’t concern her — because she tried to avoid them.
“I don’t really look at comments and read those type of things just because when the show hit, there were so many opinions,” she explained. “I didn’t read a bunch of comments because if people are being harsh or weird, I’m not going to spend my time looking at that. For me, not worth my
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Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass. Sadly, that was almost the case. During a recent episode of the podcast, the British actor who became a fan favorite, revealed that things were supposed to play out differently when it came to his role. “Chuck Bass was supposed to be a reoccurring role,” Westwick told his co-star, who played Vanessa Abrams.
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Gossip Girl, it has been revealed.In the new premiere episode of the new Gossip Girl focused podcast, XOXO With Jessica Szohr, it says early feedback from test audiences watching the show did not like the voiceovers. Bell gave voice to the teen drama’s titular anonymous blogger in the series’ original run from 2007 to 2012.The test audience reaction led creators Josh Schwarz and Stephanie Savage to consider cutting her voice-over – which eventually became a signature of the show.The creators told Szohr, the host of the show and the actor who played Vanessa Abrams on the show, that test audiences interest would “drop” when Bell’s narration began.“People were into [the show] and like, ‘Who’s this voice that’s coming in and distracting me?'” Schwartz remembered.“Do you lose the voice-over? We can’t. That’s part of the show, and we just have to ride with it.”You can listen to the podcast episode below:Savage went on to reveal that Bell was the only character who read for the role but that her other role in Veronica Mars caused some concern for the network hosts.“We had some reluctance of, ‘Did we feel comfortable having two shows on the same network with the same voice-over?'” Savage explained.“When [Bell] recorded it, she created an entirely different character with just her voice than how she read Veronica Mars.”Bell returned to HBO Max’s remake of the show as the narrator.
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Kristen Bell almost got the ax as the voiceover for because — get this — the audience for the test pilot didn't love her!The stunning revelation came to light in the premiere episode of, the podcast hosted by Jessica Szohr. The show's creators, Jason Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, were the first guests and they opened up about how the signature voiceover initially was not well received by the test audience for the pilot episode.The instructions to the test audience was simple — turn up the dial when their interest peaked and turn down the dial when they were losing interest.
Gossip Girl fan, we strongly recommend that you check out HBO's new series The Gilded Age. Just like , it takes place among the moneyed elite of the Upper East Side, where and insiders jockey for prominence, keep secrets, throw parties, and manipulate one another for personal gain. It's awesome.
Jessica Szohr is opening up about how fans disliked her Gossip Girl character, Vanessa Abrams on the 2000s era series.