, and revealed he first met Meester through Josh Schwartz, the man who created both The O.C. and . (Meester, of course, played Blair Waldorf on the latter show.) In 2007, as The O.C.
was ending and was launching on The CW, Brody recalled to Faris (per ), “Literally the first time we met, that whole [Gossip Girl] cast was eating at [Los Angeles deli] Canter's, and I lived at Canter's for, like, my entire 20s.
And I was leaving, and he introduced all of us.” But they didn't get together right away. They crossed paths a few years later working on 2011's The Oranges, where they became friends.
However, Brody had a girlfriend. "We did this movie together," he remembered. "I was seeing someone at the time... So we met kind of through mutual work.
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