Based on Gilpin's outfit during her initial audition — which doesn't exactly match the overall vibe of the high-fashion looks on "Gossip Girl" — you might not think the actress would have gotten a follow-up audition. Turns out, she did... just not for the part she was expecting.
"They were like, 'Your portrayal of a very disturbed woman makes you seem 45 years old,' even though I was 21 or whatever at the time," she said. "They were like, 'You can come back as, like, the haunted teacher.' And in the email, they were like, 'Please come back wearing make-up, a different outfit, and high heels,' in bold bullet points."
So did that work? No. "And then, of course, [I] did not get the part," she concluded. Gilpin then went on to compare it to the environment of her acting classes at Fordham, where she says that she and her fellow students were lavished with praise, whereas during this audition, they told her she seemed twenty years older than her actual age and all of her clothes were insane. As for the "haunted teacher," it's not particularly clear which character this refers to — but Gilpin has clearly bounced back from not playing a deranged, 45-year-old educator.
