Elizabeth Gillies and Nathalie Kelly are not holding back their hate for one another on this new poster for their upcoming show, Dynasty.
The show centers on Fallon (Gillies), the charismatic, cunning, and poised to become the new COO of her father’s global energy empire � or so she thinks.
When her father, Blake Carrington (Grant Show), summons Fallon and her brother, Steven, home in Atlanta, Fallon is horrified to learn that the reunion isn’t to announce her promotion � but rather to make the acquaintance of their stepmother-to-be, Cristal (Kelly).
Family dynasties flow through blood, and Fallon would sooner draw blood than call Cristal “Mom.”
Dynasty will premiere Wednesday, October 11th on The CW. If you missed the first-look trailer, watch on JJJ now!
One of the saddest moments we can remember was learning that Victorious had been cancelled by Nickelodeon, which ended in 2013 with only three seasons.
However, Elizabeth Gillies hints that a reunion isn’t totally out of the question at all.
“Yeah, I’m down. We’re all down,” Liz shared with TV Guide this week.
UM, YES!!!!
“They will be my friends forever…We’re very close,” she says, giving us so much hope about an actual reunion one day. “We still have a group text that we talk into and we share news with each other.”
Liz adds, “[The show] ended four years ago and we still are as close as ever so it’s beautiful. I [have] only positive memories from that show.”
Elizabeth Gillies is all smiles up on stage with Sam Adegoke during the 2017 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour on Wednesday (August 2) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Almost the entire cast flew back from Atlanta, where they film Dynasty, to chat with press about how the reboot is different from the original series which aired in the 1980s.
The producers actually changed Jeff Colby (Adegoke), traditionally a white rich man who would marry Fallon (Gillies), to an African-American tech billionaire.
“It’s not just that he’s African-American, but he’s new money,” showrunner Josh Schwartzshared. “In the old version, the Carringtons were nouveau riche compared to the Colbys. We are flipping that dynamic.”
He adds, “Jeff is a tech billionaire who honed what was going to make him a billionaire while he worked for Blake. That’s a point of resentment for Blake. So that allows us a lot more dynamic storytelling.”
Elizabeth Gillies knows all about the world of reboots, so it’s understandable that she’s just a little cautious about her new show Dynasty.
In an interview with Zach Sang, Liz revealed that her Fallon Carrington will be a bit different from the original Fallon Cartwright.
“I did watch a lot of the original Dynasty before hand, because we’re remaking something and I don’t want people to hate me,” Liz says. “When you do a reboot, there’s a really good chance that the OGs who grew up with it, are going to be ‘ugh’ and roll their eyes at it.”
She adds, “My goal is to create a character that pays…I want to pay tribute to her but I still want to recreate her so that it’s not a direct comparison, because people were in love with the original characters.”
Liz also recommends watching at least some of the original series, but don’t be expecting the reboot to be exactly the same.
“If you watch the original Dynasty, it’s fabulous, but it was very much of that time,” she says. “You’ll listen to things they say and you’ll be like ‘That could never be said now’. We have to modernize and update it and we have.”
Elizabeth Gillies just gave her first sit down interview about her new show Dynasty, and we actually learned so much that we didn’t know before.
The actress, who plays Fallon Cartwright on the upcoming CW drama, opened up to Zach Sang during her interview about her audition for the show — and it was actually quite an ordeal!
“I had appendicitis,” Liz revealed within seconds. “I’m not kidding. I had appendicitis and I was in the hospital and Matt [Bennett] was with me…No one believed me that I had it, but he was with me in the ER.”
She adds, “But when I woke up, I had an email about the show. I was still on a lot of drugs then [because of the surgery], but I read it and went, right out of the hospital.”
OMG!
“It was like two days after recovery that I read for it,” Liz shared. “I had the audition the same week, and they actually told me in the room [that I had the part], which had never happened before.”
Dynasty will premiere on Wednesday, October 11th on the CW.
The comedy film will follow an unstable man who, after losing his home to the housing crash, kidnaps his real estate agent and forces her into a deadly game in his abandoned development.
“I just heard about the attack at Ariana’s concert.This is truly awful,” Victoria tweeted. “I’m sending my deepest condolences & praying for every one affected.”
Avan wrote, “Today words fail me. #Manchester”
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I just heard about the attack at Ariana's concert.This is truly awful. I'm sending my deepest condolences & praying for every one affected????????
— Victoria Justice (@VictoriaJustice) May 23, 2017
