Whats do you think is the essential conflict of being a teenage girl in Gossip Girl?
In this world where it’s all incredibly heightened it’s trying to forge an identity for yourself. It’s the incredible amount of pressure and scrutiny of that world. It’s almost impossible. On The O.C., many of the girls already sort of had their shit together Not so much Marissa Cooper. Yes and speaking of Marissa Cooper there was the notorious storyline where she dated a girl. When you were writing it, was there some heartfelt commentary about girls trying to figure out what they like? It was definitely the idea that this was a girl that her character really felt comfortable about. Marissa was someone who was always striving to find herself and get caught in one maelstrom of drama to the next and try desperately to be more independent and adult than she was and bumping up against that. And railing against her mother and finding out that she really needed her mother. The character of Alex, played by Olivia Wilde, was a girl who was already emancipated from her parents and was working.
