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    Penn Badgley Finds It Uncomfortable Watching Himself on 'Gossip Girl'

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    The Dan Humphrey depicter opens up on his experience of experimenting with drugs during his younger years and reveals he didn’t enjoy watching himself on ‘Gossip Girl’.
    Jul 5, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Actor Penn Badgley has opened up about experimenting with drugs in his youth.
    The 33-year-old spoke with his former “Gossip Girl” co-star Chace Crawford for an interview with Variety where, among other topics, the pair touched on dabbling in hallucinogenics.
    The topic of conversation arose as the pair talked about the LSD trip taken by Penn’s character in season two of “You”.
    “On the LSD trip, did you do some research?” Chace asked. “Your performance was amazing.”
    Penn admitted, “In my early 20s, I did plenty of research.”
    Despite speaking candidly of his experiences, Penn hinted he wasn’t in the best headspace at the time and called revisiting his classic series, which also starred Blake Lively and Leighton Meester, with his wife, Domino Kirke, “very hard to watch.”
    “It must’ve been six months after we met,” he said of the last time he saw the show. “She had never seen it, and that’s the last time I can remember seeing an episode.”
    “These snapshots of yourself when you’re 20, 21, 22 years old. Who can enjoy that? Sometimes it’s just uncomfortable,” he added.
    The popular teen drama is to be revived for the HBO Max streaming service, with its premiere pushed back to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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    'Gossip Girl' Remake Put on Hold for a Year

    The new ‘Gossip Girl’ reboot with a whole new cast has been announced to be postponed for a year due to the ongoing lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.
    May 25, 2020
    AceShowbiz – The ongoing coronavirus chaos has delayed plans to reboot hit TV series “Gossip Girl” until next year 2021.
    The popular teen drama was set to be revived for the upcoming HBO Max streaming service, with its premiere scheduled for this autumn 2020, but as cameras had yet to start rolling on the project prior to the Hollywood shutdown, the show will no longer be debuting as hoped.
    HBO Max chief content officer Kevin Reilly told Vulture, “They hadn’t even started production yet; they were in pre-production and ready to roll (when the coronavirus pandemic began).”
    The revamped “Gossip Girl” isn’t the only highly-anticipated show on the streaming platform to be postponed – work on the “Friends” reunion special is also on a break until further notice.
    The new “Gossip Girl” series is set to feature fashion blogger-turned-actress Tavi Gevinson, Thomas Doherty, Adam Chanler-Berat, and Zion Moreno.
    Joshua Safran will serve as showrunner after previously executive producing the original show, which ran from 2007 to 2012 and turned Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, and Leighton Meester into stars.

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    'Gossip Girl' Reboot Picks Emily Alyn Lind as New Lead

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    The ‘Code Black’ actress is joining the likes of Whitney Peak, Eli Brown and Broadway actor Jason Gotay in the cast ensemble of the 10-episode HBO Max series.
    Mar 3, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Actress Emily Alyn Lind is set to headline the upcoming “Gossip Girl” revamp.
    The “Code Black” star will appear in the 10-episode HBO Max production from creators Joshua Safran, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.
    The “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” star Whitney Peak, Eli Brown and Broadway actor Jason Gotay have also joined the cast for the revamp, which will pick up eight years after the original, which turned the likes of Blake Lively, Chace Crawford and Leighton Meester into stars.
    As with the original series, the story is based on Cecily von Ziegesar’s bestselling book.
    “Gossip Girl” ran for six seasons from 2007-2012.

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