Gossip Girl EP Joshua Safran says Nate was originally supposed to be Gossip Girl
Joshua Safran says Nate was originally supposed to be Gossip Girl: “It was Nate. It was Nate until the day I left. We came to the conclusion that it might be Nate by Season 4, and then we spent Season 5 teeing it up. If you watch it, there are many clues to it being Nate.” pic.twitter.com/C4nfrVujT1
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Safran told The Daily Beast that Nate almost was GG:
"It was Nate. It was Nate until the day I left [he left before the finale season to showrun Smash]. I think we all came to the conclusion that it might be Nate by the end of Season 4, and then we spent Season 5 teeing it up. If you watch it, there are many clues to it being Nate. But I also think weirdly, in noir fashion, it’s great that we dropped a red herring. But it wasn’t as organic as Dan. With Dan, it makes sense because he wanted to find a way in; but with Nate, it was because he’d never sent anything in to Gossip Girl, and if it had been Nate, it was based on this idea that he’d felt so guilty for sleeping with Serena that he had to create an alter ego to bring us all to it."
The premiere of the new Gossip Girl brought OUTFITS, exactly as it ought to. - J https://t.co/PJ8gdbGuCW
- Heather & Jessica (@fuggirls) July 1, 2021
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