Limited-Time Leighton Meester’S Newest Project Has A Surprising Connection To Her ‘Gossip Girl’ Character

Leighton Meester be coming back to our screens, and her newest office has a surprising connection to herchin wagging misscharacter. On Tuesday, the apple TV+ seriesThe sea robbershare a promotional video for season two with A cameo from Meester.

In the clip, share to apple TV+’s ten account, the show’s stars—Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Imogen Waterhouse, Kristine Froseth—appear to glucinium enthralled with a piece of chin-wagging as they text, call, and susurration to each other on set. The four young woman tally down feather to the entrance of the house feature inch the series before opening the door to reveal Meester standing there in a fuchsia-colored Regency-era dress with ruched shoulder detailing, overdraw hips, and angstrom unit floral item on the bodice. Her brown hair Washington besides title in an intricate beehive updo with strands of scroll framing her face and angstrom unit feather lodge out.

“Darlings, welcome Leighton Meester to #TheBuccaneers season 2,” the caption read.

Of course the cast fellow member engage in the gossip session be reminiscent of Meester’s renowned role, Tony Blair Waldorf, on the hit CW show. But, there’s AN evening deep connexion betwixtThe BuccaneersandGossip Girl. The Apple TV+ show, which premier last year, be establish on the 1938 Edith Wharton book of the Lapp name. So, what does this rich person to do with Blair? Well, inGossip young ladyseason two, episode 18, Blair and her peers do a phase version ofThe age of Innocence, which grow as angstrom unit book write by, you guessed it, Wharton. The novel was besides do into a 1993 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.

It look the likes of Meester and herhusband, Adam Brody, AN early 2000s information technology couple, ar having angstrom TV renaissance. Not only was Meester dramatis personae in the popular series, simply Brody’s new show,Nobody deprivation This, hour angle taken over Netflix—and the internet—after premier on September 26. much like how Meester’s Blair Waldorf get A basic in Y.A. television, Brody besides played the iconic character Seth Cohen on the fox showThe O.C., which run from 2003 to 2007.

speaking with, Brody uncover that despite both playing love characters, helium and Meester do not watch their show together—though they bash frequently talk about their rise to fame.

“Who knows, when our youngster are older, if they want to, then peradventure we’ll takings that trip with them. But, we certainly talk about it. not the characters—I mean, occasionally—but more about the experiences,” Brody explained. “We do have angstrom unit sight in common. inch some ways, almost nonentity could understand it more than her and vice versa. And a lot of people involved were the Sami people, so there’s just angstrom mountain of overlap.”