I keep in mind so distinctly going to see the 1996 movie adaptation of the e book, starring Michelle Trachtenberg, who really introduced Harriet to life. Ladies wanted a task mannequin like her, and Michelle immediately gave the character extra realness and depth. My grandma had taken me to see the film at a strip mall, and afterwards we went over to the neighboring Barnes and Noble the place she purchased me not only a new copy of the e book with Michelle’s face on it however my very own pocket book to spy with. I can’t wait to indicate my very own daughter the movie in the future, and to indicate her such an iconic character to aspire to by means of her personal girlhood. —Stephanie McNeal, senior editor
Leighton Meester and Michelle Trachtenberg in season 3 of Gossip Woman, which aired in 2009.©CW Community/Courtesy Everett Assortment
Gossip Woman
Each time Michelle Trachtenberg strolled onto the display as Georgina Sparks, it was electrifying. The character, first launched to us as an outdated frenemy of Blake Vigorous’s Serena van der Woodsen, solely exists as a chaos agent and, oh, what chaos she wrecks. In season one alone she: medication Serena (inflicting her to overlook the SATs), befriends Dan and Vanessa below a false identification, bribes Serena with a revenge porn video, seduces Dan to get again at Serena, and finally is shipped away to a boot camp for troubled teen women. TL;DR; when Georgina Sparks confirmed up, you knew issues have been about to get wild.
In one other actor’s palms, the character would have been an excessive amount of, too tacky, too unbelievable. However Trachtenberg dealt with each excessive storyline with sharp wit, a gleeful twinkle in her eye, pitch-perfect supply, and a way of groundedness that stored the viewer wanting extra. Not each actor might pull off the road, “You may inform Jesus that the bitch is again.”
Trachtenberg’s efficiency of a personality as messy but iconic as Sparks performed a big half in what made Gossip Girl successful—and he or she’s why so many people, myself included, return to the sequence yr after yr. —Anna Moeslein, deputy editor
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