Leighton Meester Talks 'Country Strong' Twang Training
The 'Gossip Girl' star says she has a 'newfound appreciation' for country music after working on the film.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Leighton Meester in "Country Strong"
Photo: Sony Pictures
Although three of the four big names in "Country Strong" are not, in fact, country singers, they took their training very seriously in order to get in touch with their inner Southern twang. And not only that, when MTV News caught up with Leighton Meester recently — who plays beauty queen-turned-aspiring country artist Chiles Stanton in the flick — she revealed that the filmmakers made sure that each actor was set up with their own music producer in order to fully perfect their singing.
"I think it was really surprising how everything kind of came together," Meester said of her country-music training. "Each of us got our own producers to work with and mine [Nathan Chapman], he works very closely with Taylor Swift, which is sort of similar, in the same vein of the music that I'm making in the movie.
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