Leighton Meester has revealed that she threatened to quit acting if she wasn't allowed to film Country Strong.
The Gossip Girl star threatened to turn her back on the TV show and her career if she wasn't given time to go and shoot the Gwyneth Paltrow movie.
Speaking to Company the actress said: "Obviously we're under contract for a certain amount of time in Gossip Girl. In the fourth year they started going, 'OK, we know the timing of things.
"We know how much we need you and how much we don't', so they've been kind enough to let us out.
"When Country Strong came up though, I threatened everybody including my manager, my agent and everybody I worked with.
"I was like, 'If I can't do this, if we can't work out the schedule, I'm moving to Costa Rica, I'm turning off my phone and I'm never going to work again'.
"I was bluffing of course but it worked."
As well as Country Strong the actress also starred in The Roommate and has Monte Carlo on the horizon.
She has also completed work on The Oranges, which stars Hugh Laurie, Adam Brody and Catherine Keener.
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