Listen up, Upper East Siders. Eli Brown is teasing what GossipGirl fans can expect in the upcoming HBOMax reboot.
, then the head of the network, was watching dailies for the pilot and immediately zeroed in on Brown. The rest was history.
Though Brown, 20, says he's the exact opposite from Brett in real life, exploring how the other side lives was intriguing."What drew me to the project is that he's so opposite of me, or at least his upbringing and his ideals," the actor tells ET."It's very different from my outlook and my upbringing, so that's one thing that really pulled me in. I just thought it was fun.
Unlike Brett in the movie, who invested all his energy in academics at the detriment of his social life, Brown was aware early on about what his ultimate goal was."I did well in school, but I knew school was not my track. That was not my goal: to get accepted to every Ivy League school," he says. "A big part of that is I wasn't raised that way.
"I would like to do more traveling. There are a lot of places I would like to see," Brown shares."I feel like what happens for me is that I get inspired very, very easily, but it's often this fleeting inspiration. I'll watch a documentary on rock climbing, for example, the]. I'm like, 'I'm going to become a rock climber. That's what I want to do. It's so cool, so adventurous. I want to climb El Capitan.
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