The 35-year-old actor is out of her teen soap era and into her murder mystery era, starring in Netflix’s new thriller, The Weekend Away, as a woman whose life is upended when her best friend is killed in cold blood. It’s a character she can relate to — not that anything like that has happened to her — but because the character is also 35 with a 10-month old, exactly her son’s age when she read the script. That hasn’t always been the case for Meester, best known for her iconic portrayal of Gossip Girl’s Blair Waldorf, who’s privileged life of designer clothes and lavish parties couldn’t have been farther from reality. “Jimmy doesn’t like me!’ Who cares?,” she told Marie Claire back in 2012. “I was worried we didn’t have gas money or food.” Read More |