Gossip Girl Article: Where are Du from, Kati?

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posted by szmootyi

Nan Zhang

Du know, that Asian-looking girl who sometimes hangs out with Blair... but is she really Asian?
Well, her name is 'Kati' and it might sound a bit Japanese, but actually it's a Hungarian name.(Hungary is a small Eastern European country)
Her surname is 'Farkas'(source: imdb), which is also a Hungarian word. It means 'wolf'.
So the Frage is: why does an Asian actress (Nan Zhang) play a Hungarian character? Probably the creators thought 'Kati' must be a Japanese name LoL
But I'm really glad that I've found something Hungarian on Gossip Girl cause I'm from Hungary, too...:)
---I had to share this... LoL---

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helenaj0nsson, szabrina995 and 11 others like this

rahma whos exactly from hungary?? the actress or her cherecter??

miiamya Actually, a lot of asian-american families give their children american names. Besides, in the books, Kati Farkas is not asian, but very white. It was the producers who decided to cast an asian girls as the character of kati.

szmootyi well rahma, that's the question. her name is definitely hungarian but she looks asian, kinda strange....

hellokittylove maybe the show just wanted to have a variety of races and characters in the show so they decided to have an asian girl play the character to make it more interesting