Gossip Girl reboot will have minority leads, plus "a lot of queer content"

Vulture

When Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage first approached their fellow Gossip Girl executive producer Joshua Safran about the HBO Max reboot, he wasn't so sure. But he realized that the reboot would give a chance to reflect the diverse reality of elite prep schools. “There was not a lot of representation the first time around on the show,” he says of the original Gossip Girl. “I was the only gay writer I think the entire time I was there. Even when I went to private school in New York in the ’90s, the school didn’t necessarily reflect what was on Gossip Girl. So, this time around the leads are nonwhite. There’s a lot of queer content on this show. It is very much dealing with the way the world looks now, where wealth and privilege come from, and how you handle that. The thing I can’t say is there is a twist, and that all relates to the twist.”