From Gossip Woman to the musical One thing Right here, Smith is shortly rising to the highest
From Gossip Woman to the musical One thing Right here, Smith is shortly rising to the highest
Calling all Higher East Siders: there’s a brand new starlet on the town, and her virtuosity is stretching its completely manicured fingertips far previous the reaches of Fifth Avenue. At 22 years previous, Savannah Lee Smith—who is likely to be extra acquainted as Monet de Haan, the PR-savvy, prosperous, and impressive HBIC within the Gossip Woman reboot—is doing all of it, together with appearing, directing her personal challenge, and making R&B-jazz music.
“Monet may be very pushed, and I’ve a character the place I hone in on one thing and it turns into a slight obsession, in order that’s our one similarity,” Smith says. “Perhaps that’s not so wholesome, however I’m not a billionaire and I’m not evil. [In that sense], Monet and I aren’t very comparable.”
Clearly, Smith’s background isn’t full of personal jets and tea at Bergdorf’s. Slightly, it’s rooted in a love of theater and singing, or in afternoons of thrifting in Brooklyn. Her breakout function in Gossip Woman led to her touchdown the a part of “clever, considerate” protagonist Sam within the forthcoming, extremely anticipated musical One thing Right here. Past the appearing, Smith additionally will get to indicate off her vocal prowess on the film’s soundtrack.
If Smith’s characters had been on a spectrum, there’d be Monet on one finish, all cut-throat couture, and Sam on the opposite, with large goals of NYU and a fair greater voice. After which, within the center, could be Smith herself: a pushed actress, a Los Angeles-native who graduated from NYU, and a longtime singer who’s lastly blossoming into herself.
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Make-up Holly Silius, Hair Lauren Palmer Smith, Picture assistant Khalilah Pianta, Manufacturing Photobomb
