Real Quotes.

Leighton Meester says: “Ed is just incredible. He’s hot that kind of bad-boy edge to him but he too has a real soft side. I find him to be the most down-to-earth, cool and sweet guy. He gets into these funny moods where he’s really silly. Ed is also in a band and he’s great on stage. They played the other night and I was yelling! He’s really artistic and an amazing singer and dancer. He loves good rock, alternative music. He’s introduced me to a lot of stuff that I really love now, like the Libertines and Bbyshambles. Girls just follow him. I have a feeling Ed would do OK even if he was not on a TV show.”

Ed Westwick says: “You can’t put a finger on what makes two characters connect. It’s just chemistry. We have it. We feel it.”

“I like working with Leighton Meester. We have great chemistry and the two characters are a lot of fun. Whenever we’re doing scenes together, we’re always sneaking around having a laugh.”

“The first thing I throught when I met Leighton was, fucking hell, this girl’s is gorgeous. And she was incredibly sweet. Now we tell each other to fuck off whenever we want to”.

“We’ve got a very great relationship, but we’re much more kinda brother-sister, you know, we’re very close friends. Um she’s a wonderful girl; remarkable person. We hang out when we can, when we’re both not working, or not busy, but yeah, as I said, she’s a wonderful person. I hope she says the same about me if you ever get the chance to ask her.”

In this Interview at Paley: 

Interviewer: When you first read that Blair and Chuck were gonna get together, what was your inital reaction?
Leighton: Yesss… [laughs].
Ed: Thank god for that.
Leighton: That’s perfect, they’re perfect for each other. He understands her like nobody else does so…
Interviewer: There was no trepidation? You weren’t like ‘oh this is gonna be… the fans won’t like this’?
Leighton: Oh for the show yeah, but in real life… [laughs].
Interviewer: So Ed what did you think about that twist?
Ed: Three thumbs up [everyone laughs], i mean look at her… come on. Um, no i thought it was a, umm.. [everyone continues to laugh]. Come on, being serious here. Um, i thought it was very interesting. I think a lot of people wanted to see them together ‘cause their so much alike in certain ways, but i don’t know i just think, you know opposites attract and when two people that are the same, it could be… it’s like fire with fire you know, and that’s what kind of happened in the end. But never say never, who knows where it will go? Maybe it’ll come full circle again.