Penn Badgley andLeighton Meester reminisced on their first meeting on the podcast "Podcrushed."- Before the hit series "
Gossip Girl ," the pair starred in a horror movie called "Drive-Thru."
"You" star Penn Badgley admitted that he hasn't seen the movie in which he first worked with his "Gossip Girl" co-star, Leighton Meester.
The pair starred as "Gossip Girl" lead characters Dan Humphrey (Badgley) and Blair Waldorf (Meester). However, before the drama series, they starred in a horror movie together called "Drive-Thru," in which the demonic mascot of a fast-food restaurant starts killing teenagers.
During Wednesday's premiere episode of the podcast "Podcrushed" — a show where hosts Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin reminisce about growing up in middle school — Meester appeared as a guest and spoke about their first meeting.
After establishing that they filmed the movie a "year or two" before "Gossip Girl," Meester admitted: "It's so funny, I don't know if I've ever seen it. I would like to."
Badgley then replied: "I don't think I have either. I've seen clips."
Badgley also said that he has "the vaguest memory" of meeting Meester at a party before shooting "Drive-Thru."
"I do recall, I think I was at a party at your house once," the actor said. "I'm pretty sure we met on that movie but I'd ended up at a Halloween party or something at your house. I remember waiting in line for the bathroom and you turned around and I hadn't seen you before."
Badgley said he tried to introduce himself to Meester but doesn't remember much of the conversation. Meanwhile, Meester said she did not remember the encounter at all.
Both actors have now moved on from their famous roles in "Gossip Girl," however, in 2019, Badgley told the New York Times that his character in "You," Joe Goldberg, is a "surreal progression of Dan Humphrey."
"He's the very special white man who somehow thinks that he's an outsider, and it's like, 'Bro, you're not an outsider — you are the inside; everyone else is on the outside,'" he explained.