(WARNING: This post contains spoilers for the midseason finale of HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl”.)
Not many actors can say they made their debut playing a character that was literally crafted around them and their likeness. Evan Mock – the surfer, skateboarder, model and photographer, who currently stars in HBO Max’s reboot “Gossip Girl” as Akeno “Aki” Menzies – can do just that.
In fact, Mock said that when showrunner Josh Safran called him one day, asking if he wanted to try out for “Gossip Girl,” he told him that he’d been looking at his face for a couple months, developing the character around his physical self.