Leighton Meester is ready to visitor on “No one Needs This” Season 2 — a enjoyable little bit of meta casting for the sequence, which stars Meester’s husband, Adam Brody, whose character is romancing Kristen Bell’s. In previewing the real-world convergence, Brody referred to as working together with his spouse “pleasant.”
“I used to be principally a passenger in my scenes together with her — a fortunate bystander,” Brody instructed Deadline. “And it’s at all times a thrill and a pleasure to look at her work… When household visits set normally, it’s good… your two worlds merge and you already know all these folks out of your work life and folks’s youngsters go to and spouses. And it’s good even with out performing, however then to behave with all these folks that she’s gotten to know very nicely — some earlier than, however definitely all through the final couple years making this present, she’s actually gotten to know everybody. So, it was a really heat setting.”
In keeping with a casting announcement (by way of Selection), Meester will painting “Joanne’s (Bell) center faculty nemesis who’s now an Instagram mommy influencer.” Within the sequence, Joanne is an agnostic podcaster who falls for a rabbi (Brody). The 2 battle with their very own worlds colliding, with Bell debating conversion and Brody considering his profession duties.
The present has been an enormous hit for Netflix final 12 months, and it just lately scored a couple of Emmy nominations, together with for Finest Comedy Sequence and performing nods for Brody and Bell. Sequence creator Erin Foster (who based mostly “No one Needs This” on a few of her real-life experiences) mentioned the second season received’t deprive followers of what they need to see.
“It’s gonna be romantic and humorous. I’m not within the enterprise of depriving folks of what they need on a present like this and making some, like, creative option to rob you of what you need to see,” Foster instructed IndieWire. “I actually tried to remain on level with Season 1, [it] was all these firsts, first kiss, first date, and that is going to be the subsequent 4 to 6 months of the connection what that appears like.”
Foster, nonetheless, has handed over the reins as showrunner (a task she shared with Craig DiGregorio) for this go-round to Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan. “We had nice folks final 12 months, and we now have nice folks this 12 months, and we now have an even bigger workforce on the prime. […] Season 1, you’re form of nervous at how issues are gonna go, so Season 2, I used to be in a position to have extra folks that I trusted round me that I might be like, ‘OK, you bought this on set. I can go to a Favourite Daughter [her clothing brand] assembly if I’ve to,” Foster mentioned.
The second season will premiere October 23 on Netflix.
As for Meester, the actress additionally has a historical past with Bell, who served because the narrator of Meester’s breakout sequence “Gossip Lady” from 2007-2012 on the CW. When Bell hosted the Display Actors Guild Awards in February, Meester and Bell reunited for a sketch spoofing that sequence, which you’ll watch beneath: