Hello Upper Eastsiders! I have the deets on who’s going to lead the new Gossip Girl reboot at HBO Max. It has been announced that Emily Alyn Lind (Code Black) has been cast to lead a new generation of rich people behaving badly.
Lind will be playing Audrey, a character who has been in a long term relationship and is beginning to wonder what more could be out there. The original series’ Kristen Bell is returning as the narrator.
The new iteration, which received a 10-episode series order, takes place eight years after the original website went dark and features a new generation of New York private school teens who are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl. The prestige series will address just how much social media — and the landscape of New York itself — has changed in the intervening years.
Gossip Girl ran for six seasons from 2007-2012 on the CW across 121 episodes. Its influence extended beyond television and had a major impact on fashion and gave the network one of its first early hits. The original series starred Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick.
Lind is steadily building a pretty hefty resume. The actress co-starred on the Facebook Watch/Blumhouse series Sacred Lies and she played Ariel Braeden on CBS’ Code Black, initially as a recurring before getting promoted to series regular at the start of Season 3. Before that, Lind played young Amanda Clarke on ABC’s Revenge. In film, she co-stars in Netflix’s The Babysitter franchise and co-starred in Doctor Sleep.
