There's something surprisingly affable about Evan Mock, the surfer-turned skateboarder-turned breakout star of HBO Max's buzzy Gossip Girl reboot. It's Sunday afternoon, and he's speaking to me over the phone from New York while watching the European soccer finals, though his investment in the game's outcome is minimal. “I'm surrounded by English people, so England, I guess,” he says of the team he's rooting for. “I don't really care that much.”
Mock answers all of my questions with the same level of nonchalance, despite the slightly tawdry conceit of our chat. The Hawaiian actor is the latest victim of Glamour's Inappropriate Questions column, designed to get personal with Hollywood heartthrobs by jumping right into subjects best saved for a second date.
Here's what I learned: Evan Mock grew up on the North Shore of Oahu. His father made surfboard fins, so that chill surfer mentality is kind of hard-wired into his brain. At 10 years old, he fell in love with skateboarding, which would eventually inspire his move out to Los Angeles at 18. Just a few years later, after amassing a large Instagram following as a figure in the L.A. fashion scene, he gets a call from Gossip Girl showrunner Josh Safran.
“He was like, 'I've seen your face for the last however long and we would love for you to put a self-tape in,'” Mock tells me as if life-changing moments of this magnitude happen every day. “At the time, I didn't even know what a self-tape was.” Now, here he is with his only IMDb credit, skating into the hearts of teens everywhere as Aki Menzies, the pink-haired, kind-hearted student of St. Jude's School for Boys.
Mock and Aki share a lot; a passion for skating, pink hair, and power-couple status (Mock has been dating photographer and Manhattan elite, Gray Sorrenti, for about a year-and-a-half), but their upbringings couldn't be further apart. For one, Mock was homeschooled, spending just as much time on the beach or at the skatepark as he did with his studies. “This is the first time I ever put on a school uniform," he tells me. Luckily, he wears it just as comfortably as a pair of board shorts.
In the chat below, Evan Mock opens up further about dating rules, Hawaii, and why he doesn't want his mom watching the Gossip Girl premiere.
Glamour: I've gotta ask, is the pink hair all you, or was it a character choice for Aki?
It was a thing for two-and-a-half years before [Gossip Girl]. I lost a bet. I had longer, slicked-back hair before. Obviously, I was attached to my hair because I haven't shaved my head since I was like, 10.
What was the bet?
My friends were at a surf contest, and we were betting against them. The friend I was betting against won, obviously, so I had to shave my head.
And the pink?
I was just like, “I mean, we're already here, we might as well just bleach it,” and then my friend was like, “You have the hard part done so you might as well do a color.” He said pink would look pretty sick and was like, “Yeah, it'll wash out after you surf a couple of times.”
Do you use any products to keep it bright and healthy?
I have my hair guy Jackson at Suite Caroline in SoHo come to my house now. I don't know what magic potion he uses, but I have, in the past, used Manic Panic. Cotton Candy Pink Manic Panic.
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