Here is a brand new interview Gossip Girl, herself: Kristen Bell! Kristen is the actual voice of Gossip Girl on the show.

AVC: You’re also pulling double-duty on Gossip Girl. Do you see your role as the narrator on that show as a fully realized character?

KB: Not really. I see her as the entity that is the Internet. It’s like she’s reading your diary—or your Sweet Valley High Slam Book, like when I was in school. These websites, there’s so much catty interaction. She’s the voice of evil.

AVC: Websites are evil?

KB: [Laughs.] Not all of them. But when they involve talking about your friends and being really catty, I don’t think they’re not evil.

AVC: Would you be willing to fully take on that character if the creators ever decided that the “Gossip Girl” should be exposed?

KB: Absolutely! I’d do anything Josh Schwartz wanted me to. But I don’t see it ever going that way. I think it’s not meant to be interpreted like that. People can interpret it however they want, but I think it’s really just supposed to be the opposite of the voice of reason. Like how usually the narrator is the voice of reason, or the conscience. She’s the opposite of that.

AVC: Gossip Girl’s main characters are almost exclusively the sort of spoiled rich kids that made life so hard for Veronica Mars. Do you see Gossip Girl as promoting unhealthy ideals about wealth and privilege—the sort of stuff that the Veronica Mars types of the world have to deal with?

KB: Probably. [Laughs.] But you can argue anything into the ground about videogames and violence and all these things, and the bottom line is, you have to be a smart individual. Is Gossip Girl really promoting good values and honesty and sincerity? Probably not. But it is a really fun show to watch. People dream about being the upper crust and having money at their disposal and being those kids, and that’s why it’s interesting. Just don’t let your impressionable 7-year-old watch it.


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