Whitney Peak's character on the Gossip Girl reboot, Zoya "Perspective" Lot, will apparently be either the Serena or Blair of the new show, suggested Deadline in 2020, as the outlet reported that "the new series is said to have a similar character dynamic to the original, with Peak, [Eli] Brown and [Emily Alyn] Lind as the leading trio." For her part, Peak has enjoyed some prior renown for her acting, playing Judith Blackwood on Netflix series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, according to Elle.
Peak, who was born in Uganda and largely raised in Canada, per a December 2020 Interview profile on her, said that she entered the world of acting after an initial speed bump: when she encountered a Disney Channel audition scam. "But then from there I started doing background acting and then I got cast ... to play the younger version of a lead in a TV series called Minority Report," the teen actor said her journey to TV stardom.
Given that Peak confessed that she's watched the original Gossip Girl three times over, she understands the possessiveness fans feel over the universe constructed in the show, saying "there's definitely a lot of pressure" on the reboot. "People are just conflicted," she noted. "I feel like there's no need to be threatened. It's definitely going to be interesting and I don't think it's going to take away at all from the original show in all its glory."
We can't wait to see this fresh spin on the familiar Gossip Girl setting!
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