It appears the New Girl cast and creator aren’t exactly on the same page about the rumored reunion.
After Max Greenfield, who played Schmidt on the hit sitcom, fueled speculation that the gang might be getting back together, creator Liz Meriwether playfully took to Instagram to offer her thoughts on the matter.
“As far as I know, it’s happening,” Greenfield recently said on Today with Jenna & Sheinelle about a potential New Girl reunion. He added that he’s “seen scripts” Meriwether’s written and that they’re “amazing.”
However, according to Meriwether, Greenfield actually wasn’t a big fan of her alleged scripts. “Max told everybody that there’s amazing scripts of a New Girl reunion that I’ve written. Um — and just an update on that — the scripts were pretty good until everybody just started giving me notes on every little thing,” she joked.
The creator then went on to list all of the script changes that she claimed each actor requested. “Jake wants Nick to be, like, really thin — and wants to kind of be naked a lot, showing off his body,” Meriwether quipped of Jake Johnson, who played Nick on the show. “He asked to have a dance number with him, fully nude, dancing to ‘Levitating,’ by Dua Lipa.”
Meriwether said that “it didn’t really make any sense in the story,” so she had to figure out a way to shut down Johnson’s idea. She joked that he got “really upset” in response.
As for Lamorne Morris, who played Winston Bishop, the creator quipped, “Lamorne keeps asking for more and more jewelry. For his character, he wants a very long chain, like a chain all the way down to his knees.”
Lastly, she said Greenfield “has been very adamantly asking to be the new girl. Like, he wants the title to be, ‘Max Greenfield is the New Girl.’”
“Again, I thought that would throw audiences and, you know, nobody really wanted that,” Meriwether jokingly added. “I wasn’t going to say any of this publicly, but then Max decided to make it all public, so again, I have to comment.”
While there’s been no official confirmation of a New Girl reunion, aside from Greenfield trolling fans, it’s safe to say no one will be returning to apartment 4D until they all get on the same page about these rumored scripts that everyone keeps talking about.
Johnson also joked on his Instagram Story Monday that he thinks Greenfield was confused when he called the reunion scripts amazing. “I think I figured out what happened with this Max Greenfield and the script thing for New Girl. I just saw Liz Meriwether’s new show, Furious. I think Max read those scripts,” he said. “I totally get it. It happened to me too many times. I love you, Max, but that’s a different show, my brother.”
New Girl, which also starred Zooey Deschanel, Hannah Simone and Damon Wayans Jr., ran for seven seasons from 2011 to 2018.
