Nate and … Vanessa?! It’s a drizzly day at Communitea, the real-world Queens stand-in for the Brooklyn coffee shop hangout for Gossip’s middle class: Dan and his boho best friend, Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr).Yet something’s smoldering in the early spring gloom. Nate (Chace Crawford) walks in to drop off his SAT prep books for Dan — “hand-me-down” books, says Vanessa dryly. But when Nate leaves, he turns to flash a furtive glance at the girl from the wrong side of the East River in her hot-pink Doc Martens. Could there be something brewing between Mr. Have and Ms. Have-a-lot-less?“There’s a good little friendship,” says Crawford, 22, grinning. In a later scene also shot at Communitea, Nate invites Vanessa for a ride in his limo. She accepts, saying she’s “intrigued.”
Badgley, too, hints that Dan’s sensitive-poet shtick is due for some edge. The Serena vs. Georgina friction leads to “a lot of frustration” for Dan, says Badgley, 21. “Hopefully, that will dirty him up a little bit.”
Fresh from her own time away to recover from “some quiet, hushed” scandal, “Georgina is the chick that everyone’s afraid of,” says Trachtenberg, 22. “She’ll stick around and probably shred some stuff up just to make sure everything is tattered,” no doubt with the help of her 5-inch stiletto Jimmy Choos and wolf-engraved silver ring on her pointer finger.
When it comes to the clothes, “we are on TV and we do dial it up, but New York is kind of hyper-real in itself,” says costume designer Eric Daman, who for three seasons assisted Patricia Field in making Sex style so iconic. Here, “people do dress up and are in costumes all the time.” For Gossip, Daman conducted field research, trekking to the Upper East Side to study how the private school girls would “trick out” their uniforms. And now those girls are studying his styling, wearing Blair’s tomato-bright tights and matching headbands. And it’s not just the girls who are making a larger sartorial statement: Chuck’s $175 signature scarf, a patchwork of tie-silk scraps, sold out at preppy bastion J. Press.
Reality is dialed up in other ways. The Humphreys’ spacious Brooklyn loft (Dan’s dad is gallery-owner Rufus, played by Matthew Settle) is a “friggin’ immaculate” place, as Badgley says, for a scholarship kid to live. Co-creator Stephanie Savage explains that the family bought it in “like, 1992,” before Brooklyn was yuppified. Settle figures “it’s full of asbestos” — that’s how his character got such a good deal on it.
“A show like this has to wink at itself and wink at the audience,” says Badgley. “We can’t take ourselves too seriously. That would be a fatal mistake.” One of the show’s maxims, according to Settle, 38, as illustrated by the kids’ multi-divorced parents: “Marriage is temporal, but a soulmate is forever.”
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During breaks, Szohr, 23, hooks her arm around Crawford’s while they giggle with Badgley over an all-too-apt book, PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives, based on the postcards-as-diary-entries phenomenon. The actors talk about how tight they are even after working 16-hour days together.
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I for one can not wait to see what’s in store with NV. I think Chace and Jess will prove to have some chemistry on the show and hopefully they go over well with the viewers.
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