Apple TV+ series The Buccaneers is hiring a new crew member.
Leighton Meester will join the period drama for its upcoming second season. Details about the first character Gossip Girl AND Single parents star will play, for now they are kept silent.
Meester will join a cast that also includes Kristine Frøseth, Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag, Imogen Waterhouse, Christina Hendricks, Mia Threapleton, Guy Remmers, Matthew Broome, Josh Dylan and Barney Fishwick.
The Buccaneers is based on an unfinished novel by Edith Wharton and follows a group of American girls who burst onto the London social scene in the 1870s, sparking an Anglo-American culture clash. In the second season, the group has settled in London and taken its place in society: Nan (Frøseth) is now a duchess, Conchita (Boe) has also married into a nobleman, and Jinny (Waterhouse) is a celebrity, also if wanted for kidnapping. her unborn child.
Forge Entertainment, a British Banijay company, produces The Buccaneers. Series creator and writer Katherine Jakeways serves as executive producer alongside Beth Willis and Susanna White. The directors of the second season are William McGregor (Lockwood & Co.), Rachel Leiterman (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), John Hardwick (One day) and Charlie Manton (Everything now).
Meester will soon be seen on CW and Roku Channel series Good cop/bad cop. His recent credits also include feature films EXMas AND Wild river and a recurring role on Hulu How I met your father. She is repped by UTA and The Lede Company.