Kristen Bell Is Very Open To Reprising Her Role In The Gossip Girl Update

Kristen Bell stopped by to chat Hulu’s Veronica Mars with MTV News correspondent Josh Horowitz throughout San Diego Comic-Con, nevertheless the conversation turned bi-coastal any time if they took a detour out of Neptune, California, and noticed themselves on New York’s Upper East Side.


Just days immediately after news broke that HBO Max will be bringing Gossip Girl back to our screens with 10 new hour-long episodes sometime right following the platform’s offered 2020 launch, Gossip Girl herself revealed that she has known the news since July, once the show’s creator Josh Schwartz embedded it in an exceedingly happy birthday email.


“I find that to be very exciting,” Bell told Horowitz. And nevertheless we’ve been steered away from calling it a reboot and aren’t quite sure whether any of our faves will appear in the upcoming storylines, Bell added that she would indeed be open to re-joining the show she spent years narrating.


But just how different will the show look some eight years soon after it last aired? Right considering that, way we use the world wide web and social media is different right now than it was even in 2012. Well, Bell suggests, perhaps it won’t be so different.


“That deep, dark, catty voice isn't from the world wide web. It is from the depths of our human souls. It is called jealousy and pretentiousness and all the other order kind of negative emotions that we idolize where someone needs to feel bigger than someone else, and keeping tabs on them is the way to do it,” she mentioned. “And we’ve called that thing ‘the internet’, nevertheless I think that it’s a voice indoor all of us. So I don’t think she’s changed much at all. I think she’s still doing her thing.”


For more from Bell, including her thoughts on the recently dropped new episodes of Veronica Mars, Frozen II’s inevitable earworm, and her reaction to the Cats trailer, check out the whole interview above.