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New Girl (TV Series 2011–2018) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Even after its 2018 conclusion, New Girl remains popular thanks to streaming. Meanwhile, the cast members have pursued various projects. Keep reading to discover what they’ve been up to since leaving the iconic loft.
New Girl: Created by Elizabeth Meriwether. With Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Hannah Simone. After a bad break-up, Jess, an offbeat young woman, moves into an apartment loft with three single men.
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- 2011-09-20
- Comedy, Romance
- 22
- Zooey Deschanel (Jessica Day) Who's that girl? It's Zooey Deschanel, a.k.a. Jessica Day. Before her time as Apartment 4D's "adorkable" roommate, the actress stacked up an impressive filmography.
- Jake Johnson (Nick Miller) After leaving law school and becoming a bartender, Jake Johnson's character Nick felt unsure of his future. But when Jess came knocking on his door, he got a new sense of direction.
- Max Greenfield (Schmidt) When Schmidt wasn't busy filling up the "Douchebag Jar," he was trying to catch Cece's eye. Max Greenfield's character may have been uptight, but let's be real — he was the glue keeping the whole apartment together.
- Lamorne Morris (Winston Bishop) In New Girl, Winston Bishop returns to Los Angeles after playing basketball in Latvia. Not only does he have to adjust to his new roommate Jess, but he also has some career soul searching to do.
- Its Creator Had Never Worked on A TV Show before.
- Jess Was Partially Inspired by Diane Keaton.
- Elizabeth Meriwether Is Both A Nick and A Jess.
- Jake Johnson Had to Lose 15 Pounds to Play Nick.
- Coach Left The First Time Because Happy Endings Was Renewed.
- Max Greenfield Didn't Want Schmidt to Be Such A Jerk.
- Meriwether Asked Jake Kasdan to Direct Because of His Work on Freaks and Geeks.
- They Often Have to Negotiate with Standards and Practices.
- They Purposely Never Explain The Rules to "True American."
- Johnson Pitched The Idea of Tran.
New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether was completely new to the world of television when she began developing the series in 2011. The then-29-year-old came to the attention of 20th Century Fox when the mother-in-law of Jonathan Davis, the studio's president of creative affairs, sent him the playbill from one of Meriwether's theatrical productions. ...
"She’s so massively, heart-wrenchingly funny, and she is never just playing one thing," Meriwether told The New York Times. "Whenever we get criticized that the Jess character is too this or too that, I think about Diane Keaton." Meriwether was also inspired by Tasmin Greig's character in the British series Green Wing(2004-2006).
Meriwether's colleagues have said that Nick Miller has a lot of the New Girl creator in his personality; one example is that they both pull their hoodies over their heads. However, Meriwether has said in interviews that Jess—in addition to Keaton and The Green Wing—was based on herself. New York magazine wrote that, like Jess, Meriwether sings to h...
After learning that he had booked the New Girl pilot, Johnson and his wife went out for Mexican food to celebrate. "In the car, I was already thinking about what I was going to order," Johnson told The Advocate. "I was going to get chips and guacamole, a blended margarita, a quesadilla for the table, and a chicken burrito for me. I knew she was goi...
It was a bit of a "surprise" to the cast and crew of Happy Endings when the ABC series was renewed for another season. It was a particular surprise to Damon Wayans Jr. who, thinking the show was going to be cancelled, took on the role of Coach in the New Girl pilot. When New Girl was ordered to series and Happy Endings was set to continue, Wayans w...
”I went to [executive producer] Jake Kasdan and said, ‘Let’s just try to make this character as not-douchey as possible,”’ Greenfield told Entertainment Weekly. "And he goes, ‘Well, just don’t play him douchey.'"
Meriwether "more or less cold-e-mailed" Jake Kasdan and asked if he could direct the pilot. "He blended comedy and emotion beautifully on Freaks and Geeks, and that was one of the main reasons I wanted him to direct the pilot so badly,"she explained. He would later direct six other installments of New Girl, and is an executive producer on the show.
For the first season episode "Naked," in which Jess had issues saying "penis," Fox's standards and practices allowed the show to say the word five times. They also were allowed to say "b-hole," but not "a-hole." The writers got excited when they found out the usage of the word "dick" was permitted, provided it wasn't being used in reference toa bod...
According to Meriwether, explaining the rules of how to play the drinking game won't make it "easier to comprehend. Our goal is the opposite, actually, to make it harder and harder and harder to understand." The idea for True American came from one of the writers, who played a similar game when she was in college, but she couldn't remember the rule...
One of many story ideasJohnson has pitched to Meriwether via late-night texts was, "What if I have a Vietnamese friend in a park? And he doesn’t speak English, and his family gets really mad at me for hanging out with him?"
Veronica McCarthy. Writer (2 Episodes) Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't.
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New Girl - Full Cast & Crew. Comedy series about sweet but naive twentysomething girl, who shares a loft with three single men.
