🎬 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Leighton Meester & Luke Cook (Podcast Exclusive)

Leighton Meester and Luke Cook join Jonesy & Amanda for a PODCAST EXCLUSIVE!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
What's on the cutting room floor today, friendy.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
An interview is on the cutting room floor today. Let
me explain who these people are. She is the darling
of the small screen. She's delighted us in everything from
Gossip Girl to How I Met Your Father. He is
an Aussie doing us proud in the US. They are
latent mister and Luke Cook, and the pair have teamed

(00:29):
up for a fabulous news series called Good Cop, Bad Cop.
Let's catch up with them.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
With a bit of dicking around. We caught up with
them on the zoom.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hello, can you hear ay looke?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
We'll start with you in that you're an Australian. You're
playing an American Layton's brother in a series set in
America but filmed in Australia. Did it get confusing?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yes, especially when you say it like that. It's deeply confusing.
When you've moved to Los Angeles to work only to
go back to Australia to work on an American show.
It's it's it is confusing.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, you certainly now the American accent.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, been there for a lot. Yeah, I've been here
for a long time. Yeah, I'm good at that.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
That that thing am and Lighton.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
How's your Australian accent? I know that you've spent a
lot of time on the Gold Coast. How did you
find us?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
It's the best accent. It's so addictive, it's so fun,
it's so musical. I don't think that I'm pretty good
at it, and I thought I was, but I've been
told don't talk yourself out of it.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Just give us a little bit of.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
A come on there it is.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
That's what we say.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
This series is hilarious. You play brother and sister. Tell
us a bit about how it all came came to
be and what attracted you to the role.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, I'll go sure. So I really wanted to play
this character, Henry Hickman. He's always wanted to be a
detective and it's not the until the pilot happens that
he gets his chance to go back to his hometown
with his fact over feelings. He's not a charming social
personality at all. He's hardlined by the book.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
And what's his relationship with his sister Lighton, Well.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know they've been estranged because they're very different personalities
and do things very differently. And one of the main
things that they have conflict over is lou. My character
is fairly close and has remained so with their father,
who Henry, who Luke places, is very at odds with.

(02:39):
Our father is the chief of police, so he's technically
our boss, and he kind of, you know, fudges statistics
and makes his town look like it's a little bit
more of a happy, serene, idyllic place than it truly is.
And my character is kind of like the son that
he never had and happy to go along with that

(03:01):
a little bit and to kind of see the best
in people, and that that pesky Henry really rubs her
the wrong way sometimes because he's pretty by the book
and he's rigid.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, I think a man and I we'd be like that.
If we were cops. I'd be like the slack cop
and you'd be little misdetailed.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think it's all often the way we'll go to
an event and I've done all the reading and I
know exactly what we're doing, and you turn up and
just write a unicycle and show off.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
And I kind of even write a unicycle.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
And it's the girls that have to do the work.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
I had to see something by myself, and it was
so hard. Thank you I was doing all the work. Yeah,
you know who's going to do the goof off?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
That's right. You better take your partner in crime.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, that's right. Speaking of work and busy households, lateon
your husband, Adam Brody, how fabulous he's had a we've
all fallen in love with that show where he plays
the hot rabbi obviously, and nobody wants this busy household
for the two of you. I noticed there's a very
small cameo of him in this show.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
That's right, that's right, he's on the show. I got
him that job.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
You read the paperwork, you knew.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
And look, I've just noticed on your Instagram you're you know,
you're you're you're cashing it on the fame. A lot
of people when they get into Hollywood, they become all
Hollywood and they don't want to be famous. But you're,
you're leaning into it. And I remember years ago, i
was over in America. I've been on the plane. I've
been watching the transport on the plane. I was with
my brother and we've been drinking all day and we're
walking a down roy Day Drive and Jason Statham was

(04:32):
walking towards us. But I've forgotten his name. I just
knew him as Transporter Guy. And I said to my brother,
I said, that's the guy I'm from the movie. And
Matt said, yeah, transporter guy. I said, we can't call
him that. We don't know his name. And I said,
he said, we're going to say something. I said, we
don't have to say anything. And he came up to
us and I went, hey, transporter guy, we love you
in that movie. So would you be happy with good
cop bad cop guy?

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Call me good cop bad cop guy? Called me by,
call me by whatever you need to. You know, I'm
just ready for this as of Thursday morning. You know,
when this show comes out. Don't talk to me, you know,
don't look me in the eye. There's a paparazzi everywhere.
I'm not cleaning nappies no more. You know, it's it's.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Over and you don't even have a child. That's what
was weird about the nappies.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
You know, late and he has changed so much, hasn't
he changed from like two minutes ago he was like
missed everybody, and now look at him. What's happened?

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, it's just.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, this show is so funny, it's so sharp. We
just absolutely loved it. It's so nice to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
You won't be able to walk the streets. Good Cop,
Bad Cop is out now on stand Late and Mista
and Look Look. Thank you for joining us.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh come on, thanks Jonesy and Amanda, thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Okay, kids, that's for the day. Come back tomorrow from Laura,
Johnsy and A Man That's Coming Room