The Weekend Away

2022 - 3 - 3

Leighton Meester

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After quickly flying to Croatia to try and convince Kate that she mustn’t tell Beth about their months-long dalliance, a late-night argument about the situation down by the water costs Kate her life when she tries to push Rob away and that black onyx necklace fully breaks apart in the struggle. Rob has been banging his wife’s bestie on the dl for months and doesn’t want Beth to find out about the affair. Suspecting Kate has been murdered (she has), Beth sort of stands around wringing her hands and weeping for help as the list of suspects potentially involved in Kate’s disappearance gets longer.

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Before I moved to New York for work, I was living in a house in L.A. with three or four roommates, and we threw parties that would very often get really out of hand, and the cops came a few times. One of the times, we had so many people [that] it was going to be impossible [to get out of], and they threatened us with a ticket, so we got a ticket, because what else could we do? And so the fact that they can capture some of that magic while making it its own thing is quite a feat and really cool. At the time, I wasn’t aware; I was like, “I’ll be young forever!” So coming to understand that and how life goes is interesting. Listen, I’m 35, and I think that’s young; and I also started my career so young and was on TV so young and benefitted from that so young. When I got married, my girlfriends decided to take me to dinner and brought out this game where I guess the object is, you get an answer right or wrong and you drink. A little over a year later, I felt like [The Weekend Away] was the right project, the right script—I went to Croatia to film it, so that wasn’t too shabby [laughs]. And I felt like my youngest was old enough for me to be away from him during long shooting days. I understand the interest in it, but I have become so incredibly sensitive to it...I don’t know if it’s getting older or having kids or hormones, but I have to pace myself, because then I start going, “Someone’s in the house!” and it’s too terrifying. I think anyone, especially an actor getting older, will probably find the roles to be more exciting and interesting regardless of if they’re portraying a parent or not. And, of course, going through the out-of-this-world, unbelievably dramatic and tragic suspense—that stuff was also incredibly appealing to me, because I thought it read really exciting and fun on the page. That was the longest I’ve ever been without my daughter by far, but I couldn’t be separated from my son because he was nursing. When I wrapped Single Parents on March 3 of 2020, I was pregnant [and] going to have a baby, so I thought, I’ll take a little time off, and if the show comes back, great.

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The pleasure of a thriller like this is to get lost in its locales and caught up in the web it spins.

Films like this live and die on the commitment of their lead performance and whether the audience roots for her to get out of this mess. The scenery is gorgeous, the twists keep the adrenaline pumping, and the performances are memorable. Beth trusts her own instincts, even when the police, Kate’s estranged husband Jay (Parth Thakerar), and even her own husband Rob try to get her to doubt what she knows to be true about her best friend. The pleasure of a thriller like this is to get lost in its locales and caught up in the web it spins. They’ve been best friends since Beth’s semester abroad in England, during which Kate introduced Beth to her now husband Rob (Luke Norris). The women have drifted a bit since the birth of Beth’s daughter Aster. By the end of Beth and Kate’s weekend, one of them will be dead. Everything is sunshine and palm trees as bright-eyed new mom Beth (Leighton Meester) makes her way by taxi to a girls weekend away with best friend Kate (Christina Wolfe). In free fall after the dissolution of her marriage, the whole trip is on Kate's, including the lushest AirBnB, raw oysters, and copious amounts of alcohol.

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That’s not to say they are the same person at all, but I tend to take elements of my friends in terms of physical descriptions more than personality.” “That’s the joy of being able to adapt your own work is being able to do that. “Off-screen, I will say that it was the best place to have a new baby,” she said. When I wrote the book, I was already imagining it as a movie, so everything key from the book really did go into the script.” The Weekend Away is about a holiday that takes a turn for the worse. “It’s a thriller by name but less edge-of-your-seat than lounging on the couch, absorbing beats of plot like the ocean tide,” says Guardian critic Adrian Horton, who gave it 3 stars.

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Beth may be worlds away from Blair, but she's similar to someone more important to the film: Meester herself. "It was really huge blessing (to shoot backwards) because I got to get it out of the way. I don’t know if that would exactly happen to her to begin with," Meester says. Over the course of the movie, Beth begins to deteriorate. "Maybe who you suspect it is, maybe that’s who it was in the first place." "I'm most excited for people to (suspect) everyone," Meester says.

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