Working with Brody, “sometimes I’ll be like, ‘Oh yeah, I forgot I’m married to you,'” Meester told Entertainment Tonight. “But it’s been really nice having him here. He’s very much a part of the family.”
“On the show, he’s such a little dummy and it’s very cute and he’s very handsome,” she said. “And in real life that’s 98 percent not true. He’s mostly, totally, like a grown-up.”
Arlo, for the record, did not care for the arrangement. “Our daughter was like, ‘You’ve been at work for so long,'” Meester said. “It’s like, I’ve been here for one day. She’s like, ‘Both of you guys can’t work at the same time.'”
Brody can vouch for that, having said on Unqualified, “Marriage and being an adult and having a family, it was a new frontier for me, where, before that, I’ve kind of felt like ‘I don’t have to change. Like me or, if you don’t like me, then you don’t like me. This is who I am, and it’s unreasonable to ask anyone to change anything.’ But, if you’re in a long commitment and you’ve got responsibilities, I do understand now—it’s still a struggle—but that it’s healthy to kind of adjust a few things.”
“There are compromises that need to be made if you’re going to share a life with someone and it doesn’t all have to be negative,” he concluded. “And in fact, some of it, [or] all of it, can be positive.”