The New 'Gossip Girl' Cast Open Up About The Diversity Of Their Show & Test Their Knowledge On The OG Series

The cast of the upcoming Gossip Girl revival are talking all things GG!

Eli Brown, Emily Alyn Lind, Evan Mock, Jordan Alexander, Savannah Smith, Tavi Gevinson, Thomas Doherty, Whitney Peak and Zion Moreno are all on the new cover of Cosmopolitan, and in their feature, they are opening up about the importance of diversity in their new version of show.

Click inside to see what they said…

“Proximity. It’s really important for a Black girl, with twists in her hair, to be able to see someone in a position of power who looks like her,” Savannah says. “And it’s also important for kids in the suburbs or kids who don’t have a lot of Black friends or friends of color just to generally see us depicted in different ways. I think this could really change things. Maybe they’re not learning these things at home, but they’re seeing them on Gossip Girl. How amazing is that?”

Whitney added, “Representation is everything. I want all the hers and the hes and the theys and the people of color from all over the world to be able to watch the show and think, That’s a person who looks like me. I don’t have to be the stereotypical idea of who I am.”

About the differences between the OG and their upcoming HBO Max series, Tavi shared, “Part of the fun of watching the old one at the time was, Oh, this is what it’s like to be a very privileged teenager who can act with impunity, and living vicariously through that, But with this show, class resentment is a much more explicit part of it, which I’m very in tune with.”

The cast also sat down for a fun game testing their knowledge of the original CW series. Check out the video below!