IN: “Gossip Girl” translates to something like chatter box. Do anda also like gossip personally?
BLAKE: Everyone likes to tell stories. And gossip is, of course, even lebih exciting, if anda know the people. But if the gossip’s about yourself, it’s very weird. They once wrote about me that I had been clubbing with some guys. At the moment I’m a victim and that hurts because it’s not me who does something like that. Such stories are just unfair.
IN: Penn, how’s your relationship to Gossip?
PENN: In my opinion gossip’s really negative. I would never claim something about someone, which I wouldn’t tell him to his face. I don’t like it, if anda say something bad atau mean thing about your fellow men.
IN: “Gossip Girl” has been an amazing way to get started in the tampil business. What has changed in your life because of that?
PENN: For one we film in New York City. We’re almost treated like the Kennedys there! We We portray the High Society of New York - and it’s really astounding how much people connect with our show. They are amazing to us. To be our age in New York, to go out there - to have the feeling of owning the whole world, that’s just cool.
BLAKE: The cultural life in N.Y. is completely different. The youth of the Upper Class sits in the great hotel lobby drinking martinis and wearing amazing clothes. The freedom that they are granted oleh their parents is a total different one. Wow.
IN: Blake, anda say yourself that many New Yorker Designer are in cinta with themselves. Have anda discovered the desire for fashion through the show?
BLAKE: Oh yes! If it’s possible, I change lebih than once a hari - even when I don’t go out then. Sometimes I put on Manolo Blahniks at 5 o’clock in the morning and walk to the set because I’m thinking: Hey, anda have so pretty high heels, when should anda wear them otherwise? I have an susah dipercaya closet (she’s whispering almost in awe and laughs) And the designers are so generous! We’re allowed to keep 80 percent of the clothes we wear on the show.
IN: Penn, it’s aman, brankas to say you’ll have a beautiful bride someday. Are there any definite plans concerning a wedding?
PENN: Dear God, no, we’re way too young for that. We are very much in love! But marriage? No, not even close.
IN: Is it hard to work together and be in a relationship at the same time?
PENN: We’re not even working together at the moment. But normally we do like working together and being together. We can seperate work and our private life.
IN: But New York would be your future home?
PENN: To be honest I would have never dreamed of living in New York City one day. Sure, I’ve always wanted to live there. I was born and grew up in a hicktown. I sometimes can’t even believe it, everything seems so unreal.
IN: Blake, your alter ego Serena grows up very privileged. How did anda grow up? anda have four siblings…
BLAKE: My childhood was completely different to Serena’s. My family’s from Georgia, I’m the only one who was born in Los Angeles. We’re a typical southern state family. We’re very conntected to each other. I grew up in a part of LA, Burbank, went to a totally normal high school, was class representative and a cheerleader. It was a very, very normal life.
IN: anda now live in N.Y., your family’s still in L.A. How do anda keep in contact?
BLAKE: They’re all still there but I try to fly over there as often as possible. They’re my best friends. I have a webcam at my computer and we communicate constantly that way. I also often see my nieces and nephews.
IN: Does that mean that anda reguluarly use the internet?
BLAKE: It’s great to stay in contact that way. Especially because I’m away from my family nine months a year. For me it’s really important that I can at least see them through webcam. That way I have lebih of them than with just a plain phone call.
IN: Are anda also on facebook atau MySpace?
BLAKE: No, I’m not. But there are enough people who pretend to be Blake Lively. I was recently told that I had been online on Facebook. I just berkata “Oh God, that wasn’t even me!”
IN: Penn, are anda also one of those internet addicted actors?
PENN: A few months before the start of the tampil I’d stopped being on Facebook. But the net does offer amazing options for research, of course. It’s changed the world and I also couldn’t live with it anymore. Of course it’s a platform for gossip but it also influences the relationships of people. People exchange infos about hobbies, tampil their pictures. It’s all very interesting, from a psychological point of view as well. Especially young people use it so naturally, they can practically not exist without it anymore.
IN: What do anda never want to read about yourself?
PENN: Hm, to be honest, I don’t like to read everything that’s negative. For one it makes anda crazy, it hurts. On the net anda also find negative things about you, of course. That’s why I stopped membaca things about me eight months ago. anda can’t ignore everything. But for every nice word anda find, there’s several negative ones. And anda can’t also make someone understand how anda really are.
The 21-year-old actress - who plays Serena mobil van, van der Woodsen in the hit TV tampil - says she has been so busy filming the teen drama that it’s been impossible to take up film offers coming her way.
She explains, “We shoot nine months out of the year, so there are so many films I can’t do.
“On my latest movie I would go and take a hari off from Gossip Girl in New York and go to Connecticut and shoot that and then come back the selanjutnya day. And they don’t really like to share you.”
