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Leighton Meester Jokes All the Recent Excitement for Her and Husband Adam Brody Is an 'Embarrassment of Riches' (Exclusive)
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody are amidst a career renaissance
Meester has joined The Buccaneers season 2 while Brody led the 2024 hit Nobody Wants This
The Gossip Girl alum tells PEOPLE, "It's an embarrassment of riches"If there's one couple in Hollywood that everyone is currently enamored with, it's Adam Brody and Leighton Meester.
The two longtime TV stars have been at the center of renewed excitement — a renaissance, if you will — especially over the past year with Brody, 45, starring in the buzzy series Nobody Wants This, which recently wrapped production on season 2 in May.
Meester, 39, meanwhile, most recently starred in Good Cop/Bad Cop before joining The Buccaneers, which returns for season 2 on Wednesday, June 18.
While promoting the Apple TV+ period drama, Meester tells PEOPLE, "It's an embarrassment of riches. It's just really good," before quipping, "That's not so eloquent, but yeah, it's good."
She explains, "It's nice to be working and it's nice for people to see the work you do. Obviously, that's kind of the hope. But so much of the time you do the work and then no one sees it."
In this particular case, however, "everyone also loves what you guys are doing, so it's really very exciting."
In October 2024, less than a month after Nobody Wants This became a certified hit on Netflix, Brody's former O.C. costar, Rachel Bilson, told PEOPLE that the "Adam Brody renaissance" was "well deserved."
She added, "I mean, he is awesome. He's the best."
Even Brody himself admitted that he was aware of the attention, telling The Hollywood Reporter following the show's success that "I've gotten a lot of interesting stuff. My email is fuller than it was."
While speaking with PEOPLE the actor acknowledged that the reception to the show was a welcomed one. "I knew that we had something that worked, but I had no idea the sort of wide swath of people that would enjoy it. That has been an absolute pleasant surprise,' he said in November. "I've been doing this a long time, and it doesn't happen often, whoever you are. So it's very gratifying and exciting."
Creator Erin Foster hyped up her new character, telling PEOPLE in April that the Gossip Girl alum is "a comedic genius."
Foster added, "She's so funny. She blew our minds. We were like, 'Do, like, we write more of her in?' "
Not to be left out, Brody also had high praise for his wife. "I'm always impressed, and I'm always so proud," he recently said of seeing Meester in her element while filming season 2. "It's fun to bring her in and show off her talents."
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"She does it all," he continued. "I think she surprises me with how funny she is, and then, at the same time, can go as deep as anyone."
Speaking to PEOPLE about Meester joining The Buccaneers season 2, Christina Hendricks says, "I was very excited when I heard of the casting of Leighton because I was a big fan already. And I thought it was clever casting on their part, knowing that the audience was going to get very excited about."
On the series, Meester plays Nell, whose arrival to England upends the lives of Nan (Kristine Frøseth) and Patti St. George (Hendricks).
"One of the things I was most excited about was to unpack all the family drama. There's so much that happens in season 2," Frøseth, 29, tells PEOPLE, with Hendricks, 50, teasing that things "keep unraveling and it just keeps getting darker."
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The Buccaneers season 2 premieres Wednesday, June 18 on Apple TV+, with episodes dropping weekly.
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