Zelda, 19, says she was never told to tone down any of the show’s plot points and some were loosely inspired by her life.ĭaniel says that they were even asked to turn up the explicitness in the show’s pilot when it came to showing the way teens were sexting. The show’s first season features a girl giving birth in a mall bathroom stall. Set in Orange County, California, it’s decidedly grittier than Schwartz’s O.C. The new Gossip Girl’s two protagonists are young black women.įor the father-daughter team of Daniel and Zelda Barnz, making their teen show Genera+ion for HBO Max was a chance to be more real than conventional teen fare. Since then, he’s created the ABC spy drama Quantico, which showcases prominent queer characters and leads of color. ![]() A tweet a few years ago asking why he didn’t write gay characters forced a moment of introspection, he says. Safran, who is gay, says in his dramatic writing program at New York University and early in his career, it was mostly the norm for queer writers and writers of color to default to writing straight and white characters. Joshua Safran, a writer and executive producer for the original Gossip Girl, is the creator and showrunner of the reboot. Olivia Wilde and Mischa Barton in ‘The O.C.’
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