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Leighton Meesteris getting real about the realities of motherhood.
Opening up about her role as Beth, a new mom who takes a vacation, in Netflix’s thrillerThe Weekend Away, Meester, 35, toldCosmopolitan UKthat she instantly connected with her character.
Meester continued, “[The Weekend Awayis] definitely centered around her journey to motherhood and how that is coloring her experiencing and how she’s seeing the world now. I thought that was really something I could really dig into and enjoy.”
Meester and husbandAdam Brody, 42, share 6-year-old daughterArlo Dayand a son, whom theywelcomed in 2020. The pair has not revealed his name.
Adam Brody (left) and Leighton Meester.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
The actress added that “the element of being away from your child,” like Beth is in the film, “is very different than when you’re with your child.”
“There’s a need, at least for me, when anything happens — if your kid gets hurt or something happens — that that’s the number one concern. And you have to be the grown-up — which it’s really hard to be, even when you are the grown-up — and set the tone and be calm and comforting and freak out later.”
“But she’s not with her kid,” Meester said of her character, Beth. “That would drive me mad. I would be devastated to be in a situation like that and be thousands of miles away from my kid.”
In October 2020, Brody opened up to PEOPLE aboutbeing a father,shortly after the arrival of his and Meester’s second child together.
“It’s been pretty magical,” Brody said at the time. “It’s such a crazy time for everyone and we’re so, so, so fortunate that we have some of the security we do and have the flexibility with our jobs we do. We talk about it all the time and we’re just ridiculously fortunate and lucky.”
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Joking that the couple opted to call their son “Joe Bidenuntil after the election,” Brody added, “To be more or lessquarantinedduring [this] time — thelast trimester of pregnancyand the fourth trimester, if you will — has its benefits,” he said of their time together during thecoronaviruspandemic. “You’ve gotten to be in a cocoon. The world outside is scary for the moment and also thrilling and hopeful.”
source: people.com
