Nina Dobrev nearly grew to become the a part of Gossip Lady spinoff Valley Ladies as she gave a formidable audition for a younger Lily Rhodes’ function.
Throughout his dialog with Jessica Szohr on XOXO podcast, David Rapaport mentioned that The Vampire Diaries star’s audition was ‘among the finest for that function’.
He recalled telling the community about Dobrev, “She is an excellent star, (however) she doesn’t seem like Kelly Rutherford… as a result of she was alleged to be a younger Kelly Rutherford.”
“So I do not know the way we might solid her, however she must be in your radar and also you guys want to search out one thing for her,” Rapaport revisited.
“I simply bear in mind considering, ‘I’m going to consider this lady in a few years and be like, ‘Oh god, I missed that chance.’ She was so unimaginable!” he added.
Though the spin off undertaking didn’t work out, Brittany Snow was given Rhodes’ function within the present’s backdoor episode which was aired in late 2009.