Nate has been with girlfriend Blair Waldorf "since kindergarten". They greet each other at Dan and Serena's wedding and act friendly with one another.Īlso asked, who did Nate Archibald end up with? Lily has reconciled with William and Rufus has begun dating Lisa Loeb.
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And to have Rachel do it with her was just the icing on the cake.In the series finale New York, I Love You XOXO, it's revealed in the time jump that Rufus and Lily are friends again. To be able to have her onscreen for the finale was great. So Josh Schwartz and I came up with the whole idea… Having Kristen on the show was very, very special. If you’re going to have those two ladies together in a scene then we wanted to have fun and play to their strengths. Once we felt certain that we could do Rachel and Kristen together, it seemed like you wanted to build more for them than just having them look at their phones. TVLINE | The Kristen Bell/Rachel Bilson sequence - how did the idea come about for that? They didn’t merely check their phones - they performed a whole comedic bit. At the end of the day, Rufus is probably most true to who he was of all the characters. And so that just felt like a nice way to give him someone who was from his world. He really enjoyed his hormone-free Thanksgiving concert that he went to. We didn’t want Rufus to be alone! And he has been spending a lot of time recently with Lisa Loeb. TVLINE | The Lisa Loeb cameo was a fun surprise - how did that come about? And they’ll always be bonded by the relationship between their children. And I think it was very important that we saw that Rufus and Lily still have a very strong and loving connection with each other. So that felt like a fun, slightly twisted way to end out Lily’s romantic story. He’s going to let Lily drink all the gin in her teacup that she wants and not really question any of her choices like Rufus might. Van der Woodsen kind of split the difference. She tried to make it work with Bart Bass, and he was a little bit - or a lot - too dark. But after CeCe died, it was just too hard for Lily to meet Rufus in the middle. But more importantly, we felt that Rufus and Lily gave it a real college try. Obviously, Rufus and Lily together complicates the Serena and Dan dynamic. TVLINE | A lot of people were surprised that Rufus and Lily didn’t reunite. We knew what we were writing to in Season 6. We had a sense of what the endgame of the characters were going to be. I don’t know about always, but certainly by the end of last season when we were writing our Season 5 finale. TVLINE | So it was always going to be Chuck and Blair? TVLINE | Did you ever consider putting Dan and Blair together in the future? And you got to see a little mini-Chuck in a bowtie. And wanting to see that Chuck and Blair could both be good parents… See the joy that that little boy brings to his grandparents. It seemed like the ultimate coming together of their union and their future. TVLINE | Why was it important for you to show that Chuck and Blair had become parents? That was what Chuck renamed himself when he was shot. TVLINE | What was the significance of Chuck and Blair naming their child Henry? We’re seeing him come into his own as a young man and a real player in the New York scene. He didn’t have any crazy partners or distracting girlfriends. And to see Nate at a place in the future where he was successful and focused on work. The Nate story we wanted to tell was that Dan allowed him to break the Gossip Girl story, which helped jumpstart The Spectator. TVLINE | Are you then sort of asking viewers to take a leap of faith with you on this, acknowledging that all of the pieces to the puzzle might not fit? We were hoping to have a nice long run and we didn’t want people to be preoccupied by the question of, “Who is Gossip Girl?” So we held reins loosely and didn’t want to draw attention to the fact that one of our main characters might actually be Gossip Girl. Or something that we wanted viewers to be actively thinking about. It was nothing that we wanted to be part of Penn Badgely’s performance as Dan. It was nothing that we talked to the actors about. We didn’t want to lean in too heavily to that idea. TVLINE | It’s no surprise that fans are now combing through six years of episodes looking for inconsistencies - like scenes where Dan was alone reading Gossip Girl’s blasts and looking surprised.