EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award profitable actress Laura Benanti is becoming a member of the ensemble solid of HBO Max’s upcoming Gossip Girl sequel sequence.
No phrase but on character particulars, however the actress joins Gossip Woman solid Emily Alyn Lind, Tavi Gevinson, Whitney Peak, Eli Brown, Johnathan Fernandez, Jordan Alexander, Savannah Smith, Evan Mock, Jason Gotay, Thomas Doherty, Adam Chanler-Berat, Savannah Smith and Zion Moreno.
The brand new Gossip Woman – a sequel to the CW’s 2007-2012 sequence – is written by Joshua Safran, primarily based on the ebook by Cecily von Ziegesar. The upcoming sequence incorporates a new era of New York personal faculty teenagers launched to the social surveillance of Gossip Woman. The sequence will deal with simply how a lot social media and New York itself has modified within the intervening years.
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The ten-episode sequence is from Safran, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Pretend Empire, Alloy Leisure, Warner Bros TV and CBS Tv Studios. Safran govt produces with Pretend Empire’s Schwartz and Savage, and Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo of Alloy Leisure. Pretend Empire’s Lis Rowinski is co-executive producer.
The Gossip Woman casting continues Benanti’s relationship with the streaming service: HBO Max gave a greenlight in Might to her Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020, a scripted musical particular that includes college students from throughout the U.S. The particular grew out of Benanti’s #SunshineSongs initiative from final spring, by which she known as for college kids to ship movies of musical numbers they might have carried out in highschool productions had the COVID shutdown not occurred. Benanti then shared the movies on social platforms.
Benanti will exec produce Homeschool Musical, coming this winter.
Benanti’s Broadway credit embrace My Truthful Girl, Steve Martin’s Meteor Bathe, She Loves Me, Girls on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the Tony-winning efficiency in 2008’s Gypsy. On tv, she has appeared on Youthful, Supergirl, Nashville, The Good Spouse, Nurse Jackie (and naturally her dead-ringer Melania Trump on Late Present With Stephen Colbert) in addition to the characteristic movie Price. Upcoming is the characteristic Right here Immediately.
She not too long ago launched a self-titled album and the ebook M is for Mama (and in addition Merlot): A Trendy Mother’s ABCs.
Benanti is represented by UTA and Untitled Leisure.
