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'Gigantic' first look with stars Grace Gummer, Gia Mantegna
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"Gigantic," the new scripted drama on TeenNick about growing up in the glitz of Hollywood, stars two girls who are no strangers to that very experience. Grace Gummer is the daughter of actress Meryl Streep and Gia Mantegna is the daughter of actor Joe Mantegna. But they stress that while "Gigantic" may be set against the Hollywood backdrop, the show deals with universal teenage issues.
"The show is about teenagers who are mostly the sons and daughters of celebrities, but the cool part is it deals with real teenage situations that every teen goes through around the world," Gummer tells Zap2it.
"Our characters are frenemies," adds Mantegna. "What we've come to realize is one day they are best friends, the next day they stab you in the back, then the next day they're friends again. It's one of the many issues that all teenagers go through and all kids will be able to relate to."
And part of being frenemies means that Mantegna's Vanessa King is very jealous of Gummer's Anna Moore and the relationship she has with her parents.
"I equate [my parents] to an Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt but older," Gummer says of her on-screen parents. "A power couple, really successful, very famous. But Anna is this 17 year old girl who is very moral and very driven and she wants to be a journalist. She loves NPR and she loves Christiane Amanpour. She's very well-read and wants to go to grad school. She's not in the industry."
"And Vanessa actually comes from a troubled home," says Mantegna. "They compare her family to the Barrymores ... She became emancipated when she was 14 and has lived on her own since then. That's where a lot of her envy and jealousy comes from because she sees the supportive relationship that Anna has with her mom. She will do anything to somehow become a part of that and to have some sense of family."
"Gigantic" premieres on TeenNick, the No. 1 TV network for teens, Friday (Oct. 8) at 10 p.m. ET. Watch an exclusive sneak peek clip below.
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Anna loves "NPR", I guess if she loved "FOX News she'd be the villian? She (and this show) sounds like another tool for the Democrat Party. As always in the media, liberals are cool, coservatives eat live kittens. F.U. TeenNick.
"liberals are cool, coservatives eat live kittens."
That is a universal truth. PREACH!
Alex, it's just a TV show. Get over it and go rant to people who give a crap.
thank you, Keith!
I think Alex has a good point. There's no such thing as "just a TV show." That's like saying something is "just a book," or "just a movie": "Mein Kampf? Communist Manifesto? Just books... Schindler's List? Just a movie..." It might seem silly to compare this TV show to these, but they are all media by which ideas are communicated, and ideas influence behavior, and civilizations rise and fall according to such. We might be inclined to dismiss this tv show as beneath our notice or concern because it's some little kids' show, but those kids will rule the world tomorrow... If they grow up thinking that "loving NPR and Christiane Amanpour" is a mark of enlightenment and noble thinking, their ideas and behavior will reflect that, and that's the kind of world we'll live in.
Locke, Alex, and shutup, Please unplug your computers and leave the modern world. Being able to vomit your thoughts on a website is something that the three of you get a real kick out of. But unfortunately I have read what you wrote and now cant unread it. Somehow the three of you have taken an article about a teen nick show and made it into a vote out the dems circus. There is such a thing as just a TV show, trust me I make my living making them, but you few wierdo's have to think everything is an agenda. I think that this is something that people like you use to validate yourselves. And bravo for applying yourselves and thinking creatively to manipulate "Gigantic" into a dem recruiting machine. But I just want to let you folks know that you are the loony minority whom have lost touch with a world of people whom are enjoying ourselves.