Penn and Leighton are very talented actors, so once you put them in a scene together you’re going to get a lot of chemistry. […] now after seeing them together on screen people are being won over. - Connor Paolo
I think when we saw the actors together we realized that even though we had created these characters to be polar opposites they actually had a lot in common. - Stephanie Savage
It was actually the most fun I had had on the show in a while, [...] It was something new for my character, and I was having fun with the rapport, and I think my dialogue benefited from it. It was actually a lot of fun to work with Leighton. I hadn’t much. We were like the only two who had never really interacted. - Penn Badgley
The one relationship I’d love to see play out is Blair and Dan just selfishly, honestly, because I love working with Penn. [..] He has a humble, comedic air that is disarming and looks effortless – in life, at work, and in public. - Leighton Meester