Why Kristen Bell's Signature 'Gossip Girl' Voiceover Was Almost Cut From the Show
etonline.comKristen Bell almost got the ax as the voiceover for because — get this — the audience for the test pilot didn't love her!The stunning revelation came to light in the premiere episode of, the podcast hosted by Jessica Szohr.
The show's creators, Jason Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, were the first guests and they opened up about how the signature voiceover initially was not well received by the test audience for the pilot episode.The instructions to the test audience was simple — turn up the dial when their interest peaked and turn down the dial when they were losing interest.
It turns out, the dials got turned down a lot every time Bell's voice chimed in.«Interestingly, every time the Gossip Girl voiceover would kick in, it would drop,» Schwartz told Szohr. «People were into it, and then like, 'Who's this voice that's coming in and distracting me?' Do you lose the voice-over?» The answer, it turns out, came rather easily.«We can't,» Schwartz added. «That's part of the show and we just have to ride with it.»Bell lent her voice for all six seasons of the teen drama that aired on the CW from 2007 to 2012.
While Bell's the only one who actually recorded for the part, the creators revealed that Christina Ricci and Selma Blair were also in the mix to potentially be Gossip Girl.
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