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Leighton Meester & Hugh Laurie Pick 'Oranges'

Leighton Meester & Hugh Laurie Pick 'Oranges'

Leighton Meester and House actor Hugh Laurie will star together in the upcoming indie The Oranges!

The 23-year-old Gossip Girl hottie will play a young woman who begins a romantic relationship with a much older family friend (Laurie). Filming is expected to start in April in NYC, according to Variety. Catherine Keener is also set to appear in the film, and Julian Farino will direct.

Leighton recently finished work on Love Don’t Let Me Down with Gwyneth Paltrow.

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OMG Awesome!!
Leighton even worked with Hugh Laurie in “House”!!
So happy they work together again!! :D can’t wait

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Ilod these two in House, hope they will have the same chemistry in this movie.

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thats totally awesome.

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scorpius07 @ 02/26/2010 at 3:32 pm

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Didn’t Leighton play that younger girl who had the hots for House on ‘House’? She was the one who claimed that she had that “Rhino-thing”!

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omg I’m so jealous of Leighton Meester

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gross

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omg yayyy. they worked together too. love hugh laurie ;] and love leighton. cant waitttttt

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yep she was blonde on House!

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this is what you get, when you turn a 13 yr old singer into a lame fk

grossness

go back to the hills LeAnn….YOU HAVE NO GAME

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omfk
wrong blog
who cares
LeAnn is hillybilly trash

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OMG!!! Those two have AMAZING chemistry!!! Those two House episodes with Leighton were awesome… Yeah, I’m jealous too because I love Hugh Laurie ^_^! But I Iove Leighton too so I’m thrilled with the news!!!

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Can’t wait to see this! Sounds really good.

illuminatea @ 02/26/2010 at 4:48 pm

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Hmm, sounds intriguing. I’m glad Leighton’s getting interesting roles like this.

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I am excited about this!

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I love Hugh!!!! Screw her! Im jealous!

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They were great together on House…..she’s one lucky chick!!! I adore Hugh Laurie, can’t wait to see him on the big screen!!

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LOVE Hugh Laurie!!

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Hot!! Awesome, cannot wait for the movie.

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Congrat!
But I hope shes not to be Blonde in the movie ,she is very ugly if she is blonde.

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hate her she is so boring,desperate,talentless ,fat and ugly dressesd

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Yet another older man, younger woman romance! *yawns*

You in the end @ 02/27/2010 at 5:33 am

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As so many have already said, Hugh and Leighton had terrific chemistry on House. I am sure they ll bring it on this movie. I am so excited about this. love hugh laurie

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oh Yeah !!!!! Hugh Laurie the master at wonderful dialogue without opening his mouth ,… he can speak volumes with a ‘ look’ , ….says more without speaking than most actors with a full page script .
BRING IT ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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noooooooooo! it should be Mila Kunis in this role!
so desapointing leighton meester was chosen :(

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