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Why Former ‘Gossip Girl’ Star Leighton Meester Is Suddenly Everywhere All at Once

With a slew of new projects — including NBC’s 'Good Cop/Bad Cop' and an HBO series about clueless influencers — the 38-year-old actress is leaning into her second act and finally feeling “comfortable in my skin.”

The night before her THR interview, Leighton Meester watched Friendship, the Tim Robinson cringe comedy about disastrous social encounters taken to absurd extremes — and she hasn’t stopped ruminating about it. Right now, in fact, Meester’s on a promotional run for Good Cop/Bad Cop, The CW’s offbeat procedural that pairs her with Luke Cook as estranged siblings forced to work together as police partners. Over the course of the past year, she’s joined season two of Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers, a loose adaptation of an unpublished Edith Wharton novel that filmed in Scotland, and is currently shooting an untitled HBO series from Zillennial comedian Rachel Sennott.

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