Taylor Momsen Interview
September 19, 2007 by Nikki Katz
TeenTelevision: Is this really exciting for you to make a transition onto a show with older kids?
Taylor: Oh, it’s totally a blast. I’m having so much fun. Everyone is so great. I am younger, obviously, and it’s a reality check, at the end of the day, because they treat me like such an individual, which I totally appreciate and totally love. But then, they’ll go out and I have to go home and do homework. [Laughs] But, it’s good. I love it. Everyone’s so nice.
TeenTelevision: In the series you have cute Penn Badgley as a protective older bro. Do you have an older bro in real life?
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Taylor: No, I’m the oldest. I think that’s the only time I’m actually the oldest. I’m always the baby. I’m the baby in my school. I’m the baby on the show. I have a little sister who’s 10. Her name is Sloane and she’s awesome. I love her. She looks just like me. She’s done a couple things, like ‘SVU,’ and stuff like that.
TeenTelevision: Did you and Penn sit down and talk about the brother/sister relationship?
Taylor: We didn’t really sit down, but at the beginning of filming, he said, ‘I don’t have a little sister. I don’t really get you.’ And then, by the end of the [pilot episode] he was like, ‘No, don’t talk to him. He can’t talk to you.’ He’s protective now. He’s like a big brother to me.
TeenTelevision: Had you been familiar with the “Gossip Girl” books at all?
Taylor: Yeah, I had read a couple of them. Again, my friends are obsessed with them. They read them constantly. They tell me what happens. It’s kind of strange. I don’t want to read them all now because it’s going to spoil the scripts for me, every week. But, I’m sure they’ll change it from the books.
TeenTelevision: Are you ready for the fame this is going to bring you?
Taylor: It’s kind of weird. I haven’t even really thought about that. To me, I’m Taylor. I don’t think of myself as anything else. My friends don’t either. Just randomly, someone came up to me in the mall the other day and was like, ‘Oh, my God! Aren’t you the girl from ‘Gossip Girl’? We saw the promo.’ It was just some random person. I was like, ‘Yeah, hi. Nice to meet you.’ I was with my friends and they were like, ‘Oh, my God! We’re not going to be able to go to the mall.’ It was so weird.
Source: Teen Television
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