When The CW casting director David Rapaport revealed that Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter Rumer Willis was actually recommended to play the socialite Serena Van Der Woodsen in the "Gossip Girl" television series, the news came as a huge surprise to Rumer.
"That's so crazy - it's pretty cool," Rumer, 27 told PEOPLE on Thursday. "You know, it was actually totally news to me. I felt like I did an awful audition back then. I was so young and it was, like, one of the first things I'd ever auditioned for."
The role ended up going to Blake Lively, who is now the wife of "Deadpool" star Ryan Reynolds.
Rumer thought the casting crew did a fantastic job getting Lively to play Upper East Side's resident blonde socialite, and Leighton Meester as her scheming best friend Blair Waldorf.
"Blake and Leighton did an incredible job," she said.
And Rumer should know - she and her sisters are actually huge fans of the books written by Cecily Von Ziegesar.
"My sisters and I were huge fans of the books - huge, huge fans so I remember we were just so excited when they said they were doing a TV show," she shared.
While she didn't get a part in "Gossip Girl," Rumer managed to get cast in a different CW teen drama - the fourth season of "90210."
Aside from that, Rumer is currently headlining as Roxie Hart in the Broadway play "Chicago."
"It's definitely crazy," Willis said of the experience. "I feel like Broadway, more than anything, is a total lifestyle shift. It's really a bubble because you have basically, like no social life and you have to really protect your voice. Basically when you do have a day off it's not even technically a day off, it's just really about resting and making sure that you protect your voice so you can do the same show eight times a week."
She even competed in season 20 of "Dancing With the Stars" with her partner Val Chmerkovskiy.
She and another "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Chris Soules, former "Bachelor" are actually being linked to each other, but Rumer insists that they there is nothing more to their relationship than friendship.
"We became friends from the show, and he happened to be in town, and he invited me to the game," Willis explained after they were spotted together at Madison Square Garden. "It's really nothing more than that."
