Leighton Meester shows off her balancing skills during a surf outing in Malibu, Calif., just last week.
04.03.2022 - 01:11 / etcanada.com
Leighton Meester knows all too well about facing mom guilt when leaving her two children.
Meester opened up about the “most terrifying prospect” of going away without Arlo, 6, and her son, 2, who she shares with husband Adam Brody.
The “Gossip Girl” alum stars in Netflix’s “The Weekend Away” as a mom who goes on her first holiday after welcoming her first child.
“I really was excited about playing a new mother who’s having a weekend away for the first time, which is the most exciting and really the most terrifying prospect when you have a new baby.,” she told Cosmopolitan.
“So I felt like that was the kind of character that I could very easily relate to, slip into, and have compassion for. When I got the script breakdown it was like a 35-year-old [woman] with a 10-month-old [baby], and I was like, ‘That is exactly me,'” she joked.
Meester added that going away is completely different once who have children to worry about.
“The element of being away from your child is very different from when you’re with your child. At least for me,” she said. “When anything happens, if your kid gets hurt or something happens, that’s your number one concern. You have to be the grown up, which is really hard to be even when you are the grown up. [My character Beth] is not with her kid, and 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.”
“The Weekend Away” is on Netflix now.
Leighton Meester shows off her balancing skills during a surf outing in Malibu, Calif., just last week.
Leighton Meester, 35, and Adam Brody, 42, went surfing together in Malibu on Thursday, March 17. The married TV stars were pictured riding the waves on separate white surfboards in the Pacific Ocean. They dressed accordingly by wearing black wetsuits and pairs of water shoes. Leighton and Adam also each wore a hat to block out the beaming Southern California sun.
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Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticBack together in person after two years of going virtual during the pandemic, the Austin-based SXSW Film Festival has announced its juried prizes. As in previous editions, the awards show happened at the midpoint of the nine-day event, before SXSW’s music events suck much of the attention away from film screenings.The top prize in narrative feature competition went to “I Love My Dad,” written and directed by James Morosini, who also stars as a younger version of himself in this uncomfortable retelling of how he was catfished by his father (played by Patton Oswalt).“Morosini displays massive empathy as a filmmaker to get into the mind of the father he feels betrayed by, and also as an actor portraying the impact of that betrayal,” said the jury, who also gave special jury prizes to the cast and crew of “It Is in Us All” and Elizaveta Yankovskaya, star of the Russian film “Nika.” Best documentary feature honors went to director Rosa Ruth Boesten’s “Master of Light,” a portrait of once-incarcerated painter George Anthony Morton’s steps to rebuild his life after prison, which impressed its jury for its empathy as well.“With astonishing intimacy, the film’s visuals build an artful bridge between two- and three-dimensional realms that are deeply rooted and utterly transcendent,” the jury explained.
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Leighton Meester is talking Gossip Girl!
Leighton Meester has said being a working mother is the “ultimate guilt”. The former Gossip Girl actor, 35, who shares two children with actor husband Adam Brody, 42, added that being away from her children while she works “doesn’t seem to get better”. Meester is the star of the new Netflix film The Weekend Away, which dropped on the streaming platform last week.
Leighton Meester is opening up about the mom guilt she experienced while filming her new Netflix movie, The Weekend Away.
Leighton Meester is getting real about being a working mom. ET's Will Marfuggi spoke with the 35-year-old actress about the challenges of being away from her family when she's on set for work. Meester and her husband, Adam Brody, share two kids, Arlo, 6, and a son, who was born in 2020.«It doesn't seem like it gets better,» Meester told ET of being away from her kids.
Leighton Meester is getting real about being a working mom. ET's Will Marfuggi spoke with the 35-year-old actress about the challenges of being away from her family when she's on set for work. Meester and her husband, Adam Brody, share two kids, Arlo, 6, and a son, who was born in 2020.«It doesn't seem like it gets better,» Meester told ET of being away from her kids.
Mother knows best. Leighton Meester offered some rare insight into her family life while speaking about her new film, The Weekend Away.
Adam Brody, 42, and Leighton Meester, 35, packed on the PDA while taking a break to hit some waves in Malibu on Thursday, sharing a kiss while out at the beach. Adam donned a full wet suit for the outing, and was spotted giving his wife a smooch as she sported a long, casual t-shirt dress post-ocean adventure.
Leighton Meester is enjoying a fun day at the beach to celebrate the release of her new movie!
Dennis Harvey Film CriticCurrent B-grade thrillers so frequently have too little plot — often not much more than a starting premise — that it’s almost refreshing to see something like “The Weekend Away,” which has many more narrative complications than it can pull off. Certainly not with sufficient credibility, suspense or atmosphere, and not in one hectic hour and a half.