The tweets have since been deleted.
Suki Waterhouse Slams ‘Gossip Girl’ Reboot Over Joke About Her and Robert Pattinson
The Gossip Girl reboot scripts are about 85% pop culture references, “woke” buzzwords, and sharp zingers, but one line in a recent episode of the HBO Max series really didn't sit right with Suki Waterhouse.
On July 29, the model took to Twitter to scold the reboot over a disparaging comment made at her expense. For context: In the third episode of Gossip Girl, Constance Billard's resident mean girls Monet (Savannah Lee Smith) and Luna (Zión Moreno) are in the throes of trying to salvage the image of queen bee Julien Calloway (Jordan Alexander), who recently broke up with her rich boyfriend and seems to be sabotaging her image on social media.
But as any truly talented schemer knows, you always need a backup plan. Just in case Julien continues to go off script, the pair decide to help the competition: Julien's half-sister, Zoya (Whitney Peak), who just so happens to be dating the Instagrammer's ex-boyfriend. “Might as well get in with the new world order,” Luna tells Monet over drinks.
Later that episode, which aired on July 22, Luna attempts to school Zoya on the importance of image and style after she and Obie (Eli Brown) are dubbed The Prince and the Popo by a gossip blog. “When are you going to get it?” Luna asks Zoya. “As far as the press is concerned, he's R-Patz and you're Suki Nobody.”
Well, as you can imagine, Waterhouse took offense to this comparison. The model, who has been linked to Robert Pattinson since 2018, tweeted about the joke a week later. “Another day to be reminded that women can also be the patriarchy,” Waterhouse tweeted over a screen grab of Monet and Luna proclaiming, “Fuck the patriarchy,” in an earlier scene from the same episode. She also tagged Gossip Girl writer, Lila Feinberg.
“Seeing critiques of the patriarchy and sexism, then I get name-checked as somebody's nobody girlfriend,” she continued in a second tweet. “Make it make sense.” Both tweets have since been deleted.
While it's completely understandable that Suki Waterhouse was hurt by this joke—and she is certainly not a nobody—an argument could be made that her tweet is exactly what the writers intended to say about progressive teenagers who are still flawed, sometimes hypocritical human beings. Perhaps Luna isn't as free of internalized misogyny as she thinks—and maybe that's the whole point.
A few users compared Waterhouse's response to Taylor Swift's own statement against Ginny & Georgia after the Netflix series' main character made a distasteful comment about Swift's dating history during an emotional argument with her mom. While many fans were in Swift's corner at the time, others critiqued those same fans for bullying G&G actor Antonia Gentry as a result.
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“Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back,” Swift tweeted in March. “How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse shit as FuNny.”
While context should matter and it's never okay to bully people online (especially actors with no say over the words in a script), it's also true that Hollywood stars are people with feelings too…and they might just have an HBO Max subscription.
This story originally appeared on: Glamour - Author:Condé Nast
