Adam Brody and Leighton Meester Say They Often 'Have to Resist' the Urge to Act in Each Others' Projects

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Brody and Meester have been married since 2014, and the couple most recently worked together in the 2023 film 'River Wild'

Adam Brody and Leighton Meester have plenty of opportunities to collaborate at work come their way.

The actors, who have been married since 2014, caught up with E! on the red carpet ahead of the 2025 Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 5, where they revealed they still field calls to work together, years after their runs on The O.C. and Gossip Girland in movies like 2011's The Oranges.

"We talk about it," Meester, 38, said, when asked if the couple have considered acting together again. (She and Brody, 45, most recently acted together in a 2023 film titled River Wild.)

"We don't have a dream project, we always like to work together when it comes up," Brody said, with Meester noting, "It comes up a lot."

"It's true, almost everything we do they're like, 'Would your husband or wife want to be in this as well?' " Brody confessed.

"We have to resist more than we seek it out," Meester added.

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Brody and Meester first met through a mutual friend while at a deli in Los Angeles. They reconnected in 2011 to film The Oranges, but they did not begin dating until February 2013, when they were first seen on a dinner date. 

The couple got engaged in November 2013 and married in February of the following year. They share two children, Arlo Day Brody, 9, and a son whom they welcomed in 2020. Meester and Brody have not shared their younger son's name publicly. 

"We should come up with something to do together," Brody told E! when asked why he and Meester turn down opportunities to act together.

"I have an idea but it's top secret," Meester noted.

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Brody, who has been acting since the late 1990s, is nominated at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony for his role on Netflix's rom-com series Nobody Wants This —his first nomination at the awards ceremony.

"A family, you know, gives you a very different perspective," he said, when asked what has changed in his life most over the last 20 years and his renewed popularity for his role on Nobody Wants This. "Probably the single biggest perspective - I don't know. I don't want to quantify it, but it's a big perspective shift. But hopefully it means in another 20 years I'll be back as everyone's favorite grandpa-boyfriend."

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