Adam Brody Reveals the One Thing That Still 'Surprises' Him About Wife Leighton Meester (Exclusive)

After much than a decade of marriage, Adam Brody says woman Leighton Meester still "surprises" him.

Brody, 45, opened up exclusively to PEOPLE astatine nan inaugural Newport Beach TV Fest connected Friday, June 6, astir moving pinch Meester, 39, passim nan years and astir precocious connected his breakout Netflix deed Nobody Wants This.

"I'm ever impressed, and I'm ever truthful proud," nan O.C. alum says of seeing Meester successful her constituent while filming play 2. "It's nosy to bring her successful and show disconnected her talents."

"She does it all," he adds, heaping praise connected nan Gossip Girl alum. "I deliberation she surprises maine pinch really funny she is, and then, astatine nan aforesaid time, tin spell arsenic heavy arsenic anyone."

Brody was honored astatine nan Newport Beach TV Fest pinch nan TV Performance of nan Years Award (Actor) for his domiciled arsenic Noah, nan "hot rabbi" who finds himself successful an unexpected romance pinch podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell) successful Nobody Wants This.

The character has already won a Critics Choice Award and received SAG and Golden Globe nominations for playing Noah. Both he and nan Netflix show person a batch of buzz heading into Emmys season.

In February, Meester was announced arsenic a caller addition for nan show's highly anticipated 2nd season. She will impermanent prima arsenic Abby, described by Netflix arsenic an "Instagram mommy influencer" who is nan mediate schoolhouse nemesis for Bell's Joanne.

Nobody Wants This creator Erin Foster antecedently told PEOPLE that Meester is simply a "comedic genius."

"She's truthful funny. She blew our minds. We were like, 'Do, like, we constitute much of her in?'" Foster said. 

"She's done comedies, but she's truthful funny successful this," Foster continued. "I don't know, it was conscionable a different power that I'd ne'er seen earlier and conscionable killed it. She's truthful good."

Foster besides teased that Brody and Meester person "got chemistry."

The couple, who met connected nan group of nan 2011 movie The Oranges and married successful February 2014, person two children: girl Arlo Day, 9, and a 4-year-old son, whose sanction they person not publically shared.

Brody and Meester person besides worked together connected films for illustration Life Partners and River Wild and shows for illustration Single Parents.

Production connected Nobody Wants This play 2 commenced successful March, pinch Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons, Jackie Tohn and much returning from nan first season.

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Nobody Wants This play 2 drops Oct. 23 connected Netflix.