Rachel Sennott is just as obsessed with Blair Waldorf as the rest of us. In an exclusive interview, the I Love LA star and creator opened up about casting Leighton Meester on her new HBO series, which premieres on Nov. 2, and gushed about the actor with her co-star Odessa A’zion .

Like most millennials and Gen Z-ers, Sennott said she grew up watching Meester on Gossip Girl , and thought she would make the perfect boss on her show . “ Oh my god , I’m obsessed with Leighton, have been since Gossip Girl. I think she’s just so funny and talented, so funny in this show,” she proclaims, with A’zion praising “her facial expressions” in particular.

On I Love LA , Meester plays Alyssa, the girlboss-esque supervisor of Sennott’s character Maia and the owner of a talent manageme

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