Most teenagers nearing adulthood go through the same rites of passage: packing up their childhood bedrooms; starting college or a full-time job. Whitney Peak, who stars in HBO Max's Gossip Girl reboot, has had a very different coming-of-age experience. In 2020, she moved to New York from Canada amid a pandemic; lived on her own for the first time during quarantine; and began work on one of the most famous shows in recent history. Daunting? Perhaps. But Peak found it thrilling.
The actress, who still thinks of herself as a kid, says she has relied on guidance from family and older friends to help navigate her new, surreal surroundings. "Living in New York as an 18-year-old is definitely crazy, especially at this time," she says. "I'm meeting people I've watched on TV for years, and getting to be a fly on the wall in rooms where important conversations are happening." Peak has also been named a brand ambassador for Chanel, which she can hardly believe: "It hits me pretty much daily that this is an absurd life that I'm living," she says.
And yet, it's barely begun.
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