Gossip Girl’ s setting of New York was a huge focus for the show, so much so that the city was often cited as a “character” in its own right. But one star apparently had no idea that’s where it was filmed. Kristen Bell is the actor who provided the voiceover narration to the show as the mysterious title character “Gossip Girl”, whose identity was controversially revealed in the series finale in 2012.
She is currently promoting her new Netflix series, Nobody Wants This, alongside co-star Adam Brody, who happens to be married to another Gossip Girl star, Leighton Meester . In an interview with Bustle , Bell revealed that she had no idea where the show was filmed until recently: “The funny thing is, as Gossip Girl, I was only on a microphone in Los Angeles; I was never shooting with them,” she recalled. “I didn’t even know where they shot.
Where’d they shoot that show?” she asked Brody. “Um, Montreal,” he replied jokingly. “OK, first time hearing of it,” Bell responded, prompting Brody to clarify: “Well, New York.
” “Oh, New York. You were joking?” Bell said, as she realised that Brody had been messing with her. “New York because the city was a character.
” “You can see how involved she was,” Brody told the interviewer, laughing. “I just got on that mic and I gave the sass,” she responded, before explaining how she had actually met Meester when she guest-starred on one of Bell’s earlier series, Veronica Mars. Gossip Girl ran fo.