Adam Brody, my teenage crush from The O.C., recently talked about his marriage to my teenage hero, Leighton Meester from Gossip Girl, on Dax Shepherd’s Armchair Expert podcast. When it comes to the business side of things, “Everything is run through each other,” Brody said.
“We are each other’s managers, and we also have the same two agents … We are in each other’s shit in that way, and we even did a movie together a couple of years ago.” Well, they’ve done several movies together, including The Oranges in 2011, where they met. All that working together sounds like a good way to end up hating your spouse, but maybe because they’re both former teen drama folks, they know what the other is looking for?
He added of Meester: “She’s charmingly aloof to the business. She will literally not know Seth Rogen’s name, you know what I mean? … It’s fucking great, because it doesn’t diminish her art. That’s not where she’s focusing, and so she has that outsider quality, and she can come in, but she’s such an artist.” Okay, well … I don’t know about “outsider,” but he loves his wife, and I love that.
“She’s a poet,” he added, I guess referring to when she made music in the 2010s? “She has a depth and a read on material that is always illuminating and has a great radar. And so she can still get at the heart of something, a script, no problem, but it’s for me to look at the cover letter and go, ‘You’re doing this or not.’”
“Before we even have read it, I’m like, ‘Oh, these names, these are good names. You probably want to be involved,’” he explained, or, “‘I haven’t heard of these names. Sounds sketchy. Give it a read.’ I’m the biz guy. But she knows from an intelligent, intuitive way what’s true and what’s lyrical and what’s bullshit.”
So, what I’m hearing is that we have Leighton Meester to thank for Nobody Wants This? I guess their dynamic is working for him, so how about we get Leighton in something lyrical and intelligent soon, yeah? Thanks.