Sparks are coming through for Gossip Girl season two.
Michelle Trachtenberg is officially back for the HBO Max series' sophomore season and fans have the actress herself to thank for the epic return. Creator Joshua Safran shared how exactly Michelle, who played bad girl Georgina Sparks for four seasons on the O.G. Gossip Girl, took initiative to make it happen. In an interview with Deadline, the boss revealed how she slid into his DMs to pitch the idea, saying, "Michelle actually started DMing about it during the season one writers' room. She was like, ‘I want to come back.'"
He admitted that, at the time, he didn't think the comeback was fitting. "I was like, 'I really want you to as well but I actually don't think season one is the right place,'" he shared, "because I wanted everybody to be really set up so that she could come in and sort of destroy them."
The executive producer remained tight-lipped on how many episodes we can expect to see Georgina in the second season, but promised "a season-plus (of drama) and you need all of that runway to get her to the max amount of trouble."
When asked for specifics on what "trouble" she's bringing to the screen, he teased, "I think Georgina has a perspective on Gossip Girl having not quite lived through it the first time but watched somebody else come in and create the drama that she was used to creating. So seeing it come back to this time, she definitely has an incredibly clear point of view about what it should be and what it isn't. And I'll just leave it at that."
Fans won't have to wait too long to see what she's stirring up, because new episodes of Gossip Girl arrive Thursdays on HBO Max.