Taylor Momsen is recalling her intense battle with studio executives over eager to give up Gossip Lady to pursue her music profession.
The singer-actress was the newest visitor on Alex Cooper’s Name Her Daddy podcast, and opened up about her resolution to go away the hit sequence in season 4 after originating the position of Jenny Humphrey, Dan Humphrey’s (Penn Badgley) youthful sister.
“It was a straightforward resolution for me,” Momsen defined. “To truly get out of a contract was not straightforward. … It was a really lengthy battle of me arguing [with] everybody and going, ‘Get me outta this. I can’t do that anymore. That is killing me. I’ve one thing else I need to do with my life, and it has nothing to do with this, and I can’t be caught right here anymore.’”
She recalled executives at Warner Bros. Tv calling her “ungrateful” for making an attempt to go away the sequence, including, “You’re referred to as all of the issues that come together with, ‘How dare you flip your again on one thing that’s been so profitable for you.’”
Once they wouldn’t let Momsen out of her contract, that’s when she went to Gossip Lady showrunners Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz to determine another choice.
“They basically went, ‘Effectively, we are able to’t allow you to out of the contract as a result of that’s not our job, however we are able to write you out of the present. We perceive what you’re making an attempt to do right here,’” she recounted. “I actually should credit score them for doing that for me as a result of they didn’t should, and so they wrote me out of the present so I may go on tour and be in a band.”
Whereas Momsen was already working to make a reputation for herself in Hollywood even earlier than Gossip Lady, with roles in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Spy Youngsters 2: Island of Misplaced Desires, her true ardour lies with music. As soon as she departed the present throughout season 4 in 2010, the singer went on to tour together with her band, The Fairly Reckless.
“I type of simply Irish-dipped. I simply wasn’t on the script the following week,” she admitted about how her co-stars realized of her departure from the present. “All of them knew I used to be making music. All of them knew I had a band. I’d play them stuff as a result of I used to be engaged on the primary document whereas I used to be on the present. I’d are available and play songs, however I don’t assume anybody knew how critical I used to be at that stage.”
As Momsen pursued music full-time, she additionally didn’t need to depart the Gossip Lady followers hanging, so she later reprised her position of Jenny for the sequence finale in 2012.
“As a fan of tv and a fan of the exhibits, I really like when you may have the total forged collectively once more,” she stated. “You need to full-circle that and spherical it out.”