“I was in Barneys for a shoe sale,” Lively says. Not that they haven’t felt an occasional pinch. Right now, you’d rather be Blake Lively or Leighton Meester than the head of Goldman Sachs. It’s the spring of 2007, running on repeat – New York remains a boundless, optimistic place, in which the Dow is topping 13,000, Bernie Madoffs collecting clients and the velvet-rope VIP party never stopped. But like insects preserved in amber, Gossip Girls occupy a fantasy world where young people don’t blanch at $18 cocktails or $700 Christian Louboutin pumps. Day traders are now delivering pizzas, and real-life Upper East Side socialites are brown-bagging it out of Hermès, too embarrassed to be seen luxury shopping. Outside La Bottega, New York is imploding, gutted by a financial catastrophe of its own doing. Sex and the City? Regularly clubbed one another with Hitachi Magic Wands. Desperate Housewives? Poison one another’s Botox. Grey’s Anatomy? Those women chase one another around the operating table with chest saws. Everyone knows that when a female-heavy television show becomes a success, the rumblings that the stars hate each other’s guts must start. “I can’t even remember a reason why people would say we’re not.”īut come on, this is America. We’re friends,” Meester says, rolling her eyes. An energetic whirl of blond hair dressed in a soft blue sweater, the 22-year-old Lively plays Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf’s best friend and the bad girl gone good(ish) who serves as Gossip Girl‘s wobbly moral compass.
“No, of course you’re not friends with Blake,” says Blake Lively, who is snuggled up to Meester’s left. She’s dressed in a gray sweater and jeans and is wearing a pair of chunky black librarian glasses that would surely be mocked by the uptown snob she portrays on the show.
It’s a frigid afternoon in New York, and the 22-year-old Meester, who plays Gossip Girl‘s headband-loving mean girl, Blair Waldorf, is sitting in a booth at La Bottega, an Italian restaurant near Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Honestly, every interview, someone asks me, ‘Are you really friends with Blake?’ ” Leighton Meester says.
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