Taylor Momsen is recalling her intense battle with studio executives over eager to give up Gossip Woman to pursue her music profession.
The singer-actress was the most recent visitor on Alex Cooper’s Name Her Daddy podcast, and opened up about her determination to go away the hit collection in season 4 after originating the function of Jenny Humphrey, Dan Humphrey’s (Penn Badgley) youthful sister.
“It was a simple determination for me,” Momsen defined. “To truly get out of a contract was not simple. … 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 collection, including, “You’re known 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.’”
After they wouldn’t let Momsen out of her contract, that’s when she went to Gossip Woman showrunners Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz to determine an alternative choice.
“They primarily went, ‘Nicely, we will’t allow you to out of the contract as a result of that’s not our job, however we will write you out of the present. We perceive what you’re making an attempt to do right here,’” she recounted. “I actually must credit score them for doing that for me as a result of they didn’t must, they usually 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 Woman, with roles in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Spy Youngsters 2: Island of Misplaced Goals, her true ardour lies with music. As soon as she departed the present throughout season 4 in 2010, the singer went on to tour along with her band, The Fairly Reckless.
“I form of simply Irish-dipped. I simply wasn’t on the script the subsequent week,” she admitted about how her co-stars discovered 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 might 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 might are available and play songs, however I don’t suppose anybody knew how severe I used to be at that stage.”
As Momsen pursued music full-time, she additionally didn’t need to go away the Gossip Woman followers hanging, so she later reprised her function of Jenny for the collection finale in 2012.
“As a fan of tv and a fan of the exhibits, I really like when you have got the total solid collectively once more,” she stated. “You need to full-circle that and spherical it out.”