![]() Josh presented it, and I was like, “Uh, I don’t know. Even in the first show, they would show the New York Times article that they were trying to get. Gossip Girl is always grounding the socialite-y lives in the reality of New York media. I did not think of it-I think the cameo was Josh idea, maybe Josh and one of our writers named Eric. ![]() So, who thought of your cameo? Did you pitch it? I’m happy that no one’s dragging me for not being a very good actress. What’s been your favorite part about the reception for Season 2 so far? Old, classic cinema- cinema! I just mean old Hollywood movies. The episode titles are references to Katharine Hepburn movies, or Humphrey Bogart movies. Otherwise, I was watching movies, which is also why I love Gossip Girl. But that was the first show that I really identified with as a teenager. The most trouble I’ve ever gotten into with my parents was reading Gossip Girl the book. ![]() I would truly tune in and watch every week-except by watch every week, I mean for the first couple seasons, I had to buy and download every episode on iTunes because I wasn’t allowed to watch it. ![]() It’s funny, because Gossip Girl is the first TV show that I really, really, really watched and loved. I’d already known Josh from being mutuals on Twitter, and he was like, “How would you feel about coming into the room? I don’t think you’ve ever done this before.” I was like, “Ooh, OK! New adventure, let’s do it.” Then, the Gossip Girl job came very organically and surprisingly. People had done it before- Jessica Pressler, my friend Allison Davis. It wasn’t until my last year at New York magazine that I started thinking about it really seriously, and that transition felt not so distant. I was like, “Girl, what do I look like? Setting up lights? I don’t know what I’m doing.” I quickly moved into journalism because I just felt like, “Oh, I know exactly what I’m doing here. Basically, I took one film production course and was like, “Just kidding!” I went to Emerson College and I started as a Writing for Film and Television major. The trajectory from writing for New York magazine to writing for movies was always a dream of mine. I don’t think I’m alone in this, like everyone else, I wanted to be Nora Ephron when I grew up. Was writing for TV always a goal of yours? Gossip Girl has joked about Vulture and New York magazine, and that’s par for the course. I didn’t write that joke, but I thought it was funny. Did you, a devoted Substacker, have to OK that quip? I was going to ask about Substack, because they make that joke in the second episode. That’s something that feels super of-this-time-period. That’s not pegged to this week or last week or next week, it’s just a current reference to make-same with Substack, for example. There’s a great joke in Episode 2 about Annette Bening’s hair. There are things that are always going to be topical. What I always appreciated about is that it feels super timely. ![]() Now, you’re writing jokes a year before they hit the public eye. I don’t do online betting, but my Uncut Gems is Resy notifications and getting tables.”) (Unlike these teens, using Resy, Harris says, is one of her favorite pastimes: “It’s a game. Some of her very New York ideas while writing for Gossip Girl: a TikTok-engineered day in SoHo with trips to Reformation and Sadelle’s, Lucas Hedges weed ragers, and entitled teens whining over having to open the Resy app after their favorite table at Lilia is taken. “I just say I’m a writer, and that I write across a couple different projects.” Newsletters still feel nebulous in people’s minds,” says Harris, who writes Hung Up, her own personal newsletter for Substack, as we chat over Zoom. “I’m applying to adopt dogs, and I’m like, ‘Oh, what do I say my job is?’ I write for magazines and for a TV show, but also I write a newsletter. Still, she’s a prolific journalist, cranking out newsletters about the World Cup and magazine cover stories while Season 2 rolls out. Now, as the show releases its sophomore season, Harris has a totally different role: She’s writing for the show, as opposed to about the show. Working as a freelance writer, Harris penned an on-set profile of the Gossip Girl cast for Vulture. And around a year and a half ago, Harris was assigned the same task-but in real life. In the second episode, Harris appeared in a cameo on the HBO Max show as herself, writing a profile of some of the characters for the fictional magazine The Spectator. Around a week ago, Hunter Harris made the new Gossip Girl reboot the most lifelike it’s ever been. ![]()
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