Gossip GirlPlayed by Ivy Dickens Kaylee DeFerHe was the villain of the show that we all loved to hate due to his late arrival on the Upper East Side.

“It was a very interesting situation for me because I came at the end of season 4,” DeFer, 38, said during a recent appearance on the show. “Don’t worry about it” podcast. “So imagine entering your senior year of high school with a class of people who have been together for four years and have already dated each other, broken up with each other, and want nothing to do with each other.”

DeFer, on the other hand, was “very excited to have a job.”

“It’s like, ‘Get out of here,’ (and) I’m like, ‘Please talk to me,’” DeFer added. “I think: ‘I don’t know anyone in New York. ‘Do you want to hang out?’ And they say, ‘No, we’re not babysitting.'”

DeFer also emphasized that the entire cast was “very nice” to him, but treated the experience “like a job.”

Gossip Girl, Based on the YA book series by Cecily Von Ziegesar with the same name, It aired on The CW between 2007 and 2012. Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Penn Badgley And Taylor Momsen On New York’s Upper East Side, the elite Constance Billard and St. He played with students at St. Jude prep academies.

As young people led the high society life at a young age they lived and breathed appearances on the “Gossip Girl” blog run by (spoiler alert) Badgley’s Dan Humphrey. DeFer, on the other hand, came to town in season 4 as the assumed cousin of Lively’s Serena Van der Woodsen.

After Ivy infiltrates the elite society, it is eventually revealed that she was recruited by Serena’s aunt Carol (Sheila Kelley) as a way to secure his inheritance. Carol’s real daughter, Lola (Ella Rae Peck), had nothing to do with her mother or the world of UES, as she studied acting at university.

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Whatever the cast’s feelings, DeFer still had fond memories of acting. Gossip Girl. In an October podcast episode featuring the creators, he noted: Josh Schwartz And Stephanie Savage He wrote the role of Ivy specifically for her after working together. Mountain.

“They were the most beautiful,” DeFer enthused. “They said: ‘Kaylee, where have you been? We forgot about you!’ ‘I know I haven’t worked for three years,’ I said. And then (they) said: ‘We want to work with you; we loved working with you Mountain.‘ And they brought me on board, which was the sweetest thing in the world (and) literally saved my life – and I stayed in the industry for another five years.”