Leighton Meester confirms Nobody Wants This cameo after dropping major hint
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody are one of the world's favourite showbiz couples. So when it was announced the former star of The OC would be joining the former Gossip Girl star on her new Stan Original series Good Cop/Bad Cop, fans were over the moon.
And the good news didn't stop there. On Friday, it was also announced Leighton will appear in the second season of Adam's hit Netflix show Nobody Wants This.
The reveal comes after Leighton teased a cameo on the rom-com while speaking toYahoo Lifestyle on February 19.
Speaking about her husband's cameo in Good Cop/Bad Cop, Leighton joked, "It was a total shock to all of us."
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Co-star Luke Cook quipped, "You showed up on the day, and there he was!"
Leighton continued, "Early on, I knew that we would be out there at the same time, and I thought in those eight episodes there's gotta be some character that he would enjoy playing. And it just sort of ended up working!
"And, yeah, he brought some weirdness to an already pretty weird character, so it was just so joyful."
When asked by Yahoo Lifestyle if this means Leighton will appear on Adam's hit show, Nobody Wants This, the star remained mysterious.
"Well, that would be fun, that'd be great!" she told us with a telling smile.
"I'm going to call her agent," Luke said.
"Yeah, can you negotiate for me?" Leighton laughed.
"You should definitely call your agent," Luke added. "You should be on Nobody Wants This. You should be the hot Jewish chick at his synagogue, who's like, 'Come back to tradition,' you know? Thoughts?"
"Okay, that sounds good, yeah, I like it," she said, with a very coy smile.
Variety confirmed the news that Leighton will join Adam and his co-star Kristen Bell on the Netflix hit, revealing she will play Abby, who is described as "Joanne's (Bell) middle school nemesis, who is now an Instagram mommy influencer."
Fans were thrilled about the announcement, with one user referencing the fact Kristen was the voice of Gossip Girl, they wrote, "Leighton and Kristen as nemesis? I love it, it's giving Gossip Girl 2.0."
"Blair, Seth and Veronica Mars in the same show is so SMART," another said, referencing Kristen's popular private investigator character.
"Leighton?!?! Shut up!!! And her as Kristen's nemesis is perfect," a third added.
"Omg I was really hoping this would happen!" someone else said.
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It's not the first time Leighton and Adam have appeared onscreen together. The pair first worked together on the 2011 film The Oranges, later also appearing in 2014's Life Partners after getting married, with Adam also guest starring on Leighton's sitcom Single Parents in 2019.
In Good Cop/Bad Cop, Leighton and her Aussie co-star (and TikTok superstar) Luke Cook are an odd couple sister-and-brother detective team who are forced to work together by their dad (who happens to be the Chief of the police force) to investigate the crimes of small town Eden Vale and its oddball residents.
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