Speaker 1: LAFT meeting, a laft A meeting. You guys, Hello, I
Speaker 1: realized do I always start this with an airhorn? Remember
Speaker 1: I told you guys last week that my mom was like,
Speaker 1: it feels like you're your enthusiasm levels going up on
Speaker 1: LAFT meetings. You're getting crazy. And I'm realizing maybe that's
Speaker 1: because I'm starting a reacingle time going. Maybe it's a lot.
Speaker 1: Maybe no one really wants to hear that when they,
Speaker 1: you know, open up a podcast to listen. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here wearing my Ferguson shirt, my mess around Ferguson shirt.
Speaker 1: I see that. I can't explain. I know I've talked
Speaker 1: about before, but I can't explain. I was so excited
Speaker 1: when New Girl became super popular, and I just assumed.
Speaker 1: I just assumed there'd be so much like swag and
Speaker 1: merch around the show that you would be produced by
Speaker 1: like the show, that we would get to wear all
Speaker 1: the time and just like represent all the time. And
Speaker 1: there wasn't. It's not feeling like a weird missed opportunity,
Speaker 1: like the studio doesn't like make all this merch and
Speaker 1: swag and everybody could just go and buy it. So
Speaker 1: it's funny. When we started this Podcastla Morning and I
Speaker 1: were like, we need to get some new girl merch
Speaker 1: out into the world, specific to the mess Around and
Speaker 1: the Winnie CC dynamic. But ye'all know me. I'm a
Speaker 1: crazy cat lady out and brown. I have a whole
Speaker 1: account called Have Cats, Will Travel Cats Cats with a
Speaker 1: Zi Lada. I'm so crazy about cats. So I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for the right opportunity for us to create some
Speaker 1: fergus in merch and Valentine's Day seemed like the perfect
Speaker 1: time to drop that love letter to the fans and
Speaker 1: to myself. And I've been wearing this T shirt stop
Speaker 1: this Ferguson T shirt and it's so cool, like being
Speaker 1: able to being able to like wear it out in
Speaker 1: the world because people know, people know Fergie ferg ma'am um.
Speaker 1: You can get yours, of course at the mess Around pod
Speaker 1: dot com. Go get it. But if you get it,
Speaker 1: if you get this T shirt, please, Like I designed
Speaker 1: this with my bestie Wendy. I feel like, please, if
Speaker 1: you get it, can you just put it on and
Speaker 1: like tag me so I can see. It makes me
Speaker 1: so happy. Ah. Right, It's a loft meeting, which is
Speaker 1: really all's time to shine. You send in your letters,
Speaker 1: your videos, your voice memos, your thoughts, your conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: around the show, all the stuff, and then I get
Speaker 1: to talk about it and address it, which is my
Speaker 1: favorite thing to do. So here we go. Let's launch
Speaker 1: in with Gwyneth. What's up? Gwyneth? Love that name? Hello
Speaker 1: a Hanna and Lamourn. Firstly, I'd like to thank you
Speaker 1: both so much for doing this podcast. The specific energy
Speaker 1: that your friendship brings to the show is authentic and
Speaker 1: so enjoyable. This podcast has really helped me understand not
Speaker 1: only how special you are as people, but also just
Speaker 1: how talented you are as actors. This is so nice.
Speaker 1: I know lots of comments say otherwise, out you mean,
Speaker 1: lots of comments say otherwise, Oh my goodness, gracious well,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen those comment Maybe the algorithm is protecting
Speaker 1: me from the criticism. But I see a clear difference
Speaker 1: between Cec and Hannah and Winston and Lamourn. CEC's not
Speaker 1: going to stay home and do any puzzles, and Winston
Speaker 1: doesn't have half the riz Lamarn does. Oh God. What
Speaker 1: prompted me to reach out though, was a kindred feeling
Speaker 1: with you two, with you Hannah. Sorry. What prompted me
Speaker 1: to reach out, though, was a kindred feeling with you.
Speaker 1: Hannah calls us third culture kids. Oh, I know this well.
Speaker 1: I know this well, just like you. I spent a
Speaker 1: great deal of my life overseas. It's awesome hearing you
Speaker 1: off your offhanded mentions of a British mother, an Indian father,
Speaker 1: Canadian citizenship and upbringing in Cyprus, et cetera, and so
Speaker 1: much more. I grew up in a similar way as
Speaker 1: an American with a parent in the Foreign Service. I
Speaker 1: rarely lived in any country for longer than three years.
Speaker 1: I truly have never seen my experience on the screen
Speaker 1: before This's my life too. And then I remembered, Hannah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't on this podcast when I first felt that shock.
Speaker 1: It was on the show in the episode Barkrawl, the
Speaker 1: characters Coach and May meet for the first time and
Speaker 1: bond over being third culture kids. All of this background
Speaker 1: leads me to my very simple question. Were the stories
Speaker 1: of Coach Slash May inspired by Hannah's story or by
Speaker 1: anyone else working on the show, or was that just random?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much to everyone who works on this
Speaker 1: podcast finally make the experience so much richer for your audience. Gwyneth,
Speaker 1: Thanks Gwyneth. Yeah, it's funny. Third Culture kids, man, it's
Speaker 1: a whole thing. I don't know. My assumption would be
Speaker 1: for the coach may thing is that there was someone
Speaker 1: in the writer's room that had that experience and then
Speaker 1: Sike like built that into the story of their relationship.
Speaker 1: That would be my guess. I don't think it's inspired
Speaker 1: by me particularly, but yeah, Third Culture kids, it's it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I always said that I'd never lived in a place
Speaker 1: more than three years. When I lived in Toronto, I
Speaker 1: think I was there for four and for me, I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, that's the longest I lived anywhere. And
Speaker 1: the irony was it was probably the city that I
Speaker 1: least connected with, but I spent the most time there
Speaker 1: until I moved to LA and I've been here often
Speaker 1: on now for a very very long time. So yeah, interesting,
Speaker 1: Like it was interesting thing for me to actually like
Speaker 1: be living in a life for as long as I
Speaker 1: have now, which is over a decade, feels so strange
Speaker 1: because I'm much more comfortable in movement and change, which
Speaker 1: is the nice thing of being a Third culture kid
Speaker 1: is that change is comfortable and I know, changes uncomfortable
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, so there was a lot
Speaker 1: of ups and down, so obviously moving a lot, but
Speaker 1: that was the one gift of it. It made change
Speaker 1: very comfortable and traveling very easy and familiar, which was
Speaker 1: always nice. All right, here we go our next question.
Speaker 1: Hi Hannah and in the morn, my name is Amir. Well,
Speaker 1: this is mer Mer. My name is Mer. My friend,
Speaker 1: my best friend Faith and I are from the UK
Speaker 1: and we're big friends of the new girl. She's definitely
Speaker 1: the just in my CC we usually found quoting Schmidt's
Speaker 1: a white man, Nope, at each other. I've just listen
Speaker 1: to the ex's episode of the podcast, and my question
Speaker 1: is is there any guests are on the show that
Speaker 1: you wish you could have worked with more, Like Tiffany Hattish,
Speaker 1: Adam Brodie, Mary, Elizabeth Ellis. They were on this episode,
Speaker 1: but you didn't get to work with all of them much,
Speaker 1: if at all. Thank you man. Yes, you know what's
Speaker 1: really crazy is that I watched this show as it airs,
Speaker 1: so we shot the show. But if people aren't in
Speaker 1: your scenes, you're probably not working that day often so
Speaker 1: you don't even cross paths. And then I would watch
Speaker 1: it as it aired, so it aired about three to
Speaker 1: four weeks later after shooting. But then I've never rewatched
Speaker 1: the show. So here I am, like, many many, many,
Speaker 1: many many years later, in a weird way, almost watching
Speaker 1: for the first time. It feels like because I'm not
Speaker 1: like in the machine of the whole thing, and I'd
Speaker 1: forgotten because it wasn't in my core memory. It wasn't like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that time Tiffany Hattish and I hung out
Speaker 1: all day didn't happen. So I'm rewatching and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what I mean, it's it's amazing the level of guest
Speaker 1: stars we had on this show and what they brought
Speaker 1: to the show. There was like a running joke that
Speaker 1: New Girl was becoming the Law and Order of LA
Speaker 1: and that means Law and Order is such a long
Speaker 1: running show and it shoots in New York that every actor,
Speaker 1: usually at the beginning of their career, at some point
Speaker 1: got hired and cycled through that show. And I feel
Speaker 1: like New Girl ran for so long that so many
Speaker 1: great comedy actors at the beginning of their career came
Speaker 1: on and they had a line here, or you know,
Speaker 1: a few lines there, and it was just it's so
Speaker 1: interesting that you get to kind of see them at
Speaker 1: that point. Yeah, so crazy, and I wish I'd spend
Speaker 1: more time with all of them, or anytime with any
Speaker 1: of them. I wonder if we ever did a reunion
Speaker 1: of I just watched SNL fifty and you know, they
Speaker 1: brought everybody back that's ever been a part of it.
Speaker 1: That'd be so cool to do for New Girl. I
Speaker 1: wonder if somebody could do that with just like photoshop
Speaker 1: is to make like the like the all the amazing
Speaker 1: guest stars and then the cast of New Girl altogether
Speaker 1: in one picture. Someone all they're talented. Could they do
Speaker 1: that so we could actually see all the incredible people
Speaker 1: that have been part of this show, just like in
Speaker 1: one shot. That'd be awesome. Ah, right, here we go,
Speaker 1: next question. Hello mess Around crew, Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for all your time and efforts for the pod. Love
Speaker 1: listening to you all. I noticed that saved by the
Speaker 1: bell is a common theme one New Girl. Nick at
Speaker 1: one point says they don't know what saved by the
Speaker 1: Bell is and they don't feel pain when Justice is
Speaker 1: tripping out during Thanksgiving three, she references Ac Slater and
Speaker 1: when CC is about to go on a date with
Speaker 1: someone named Paul Schmid says it's a stupid name, But
Speaker 1: then CEC references Mark Paul Gossler. How do you say
Speaker 1: his last name? I don't know is the show reference
Speaker 1: because the characters would have grown up watching this show
Speaker 1: or the writer's just massive fans. Probably both, probably both.
Speaker 1: See You by the Bell was iconic, iconic that also
Speaker 1: had like a stellar cast who all went on to
Speaker 1: do like amazing things. I love that show, so I
Speaker 1: think it's probably both. All right, Vienna, Hi, Hannah Lamore
Speaker 1: and Hannah, when you said you love Faulty Towers, I
Speaker 1: just had to write in ooh, I no, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: love this letter. I've also watched every episode multiple times
Speaker 1: because my dad once bought the DVD sit and told
Speaker 1: me and my brother, we just had to watch your
Speaker 1: dad introduced you to this show. Oh my gosh. I
Speaker 1: love that so much, And now to this day, way
Speaker 1: over decade later, we still quote it regularly. One of
Speaker 1: our favorite things is to say, is oh I know,
Speaker 1: Oh I know? And Prunella Scales's voice and cute as
Speaker 1: a short hand for thank you, and John that's a
Speaker 1: shorthand for thank you, and John Cleese's voice, Do you
Speaker 1: have a favorite episode or a line you like to
Speaker 1: quote from Faulty Towers? Just had to ask, Oh, my gosh,
Speaker 1: all of it, honestly. So, I grew up for a
Speaker 1: lot of my life in Saudi Arabia, and so there
Speaker 1: was no TV there, there was no movies, and it
Speaker 1: was just like the tapes in videos my parents kind
Speaker 1: of brought in with them, and Faulty Towers was one
Speaker 1: of them. So it was just something we watched on loop.
Speaker 1: So I know the words do every single episode that's
Speaker 1: not a lie? And so does my brother. My brother
Speaker 1: and I can quote the entire show. It's only thirteen episodes, right,
Speaker 1: that was it. That's all they ever did on that show,
Speaker 1: all of it, all of it. There's one called The Builder,
Speaker 1: and it's about when John Clas's character, a Basil Faulty,
Speaker 1: hires a builder that he knows his wife wouldn't approve of.
Speaker 1: And the builder, just like the wife had veered, screws
Speaker 1: the entire thing and so Basil is freaking out. And uh,
Speaker 1: there's some very classic lines that happened between the Builder
Speaker 1: and Basil Faulty that I quote. Oh that time, very interesting,
Speaker 1: funny viewing some of it, though, I will say on
Speaker 1: a rewatch of Faulty Towers does not hold up. Some
Speaker 1: of it is like, yeah, no, no, sir, you can't
Speaker 1: do that anymore and shouldn't. Shouldn't have done it, then
Speaker 1: she won't do it out. But a lot of it
Speaker 1: was very funny, very very funny show. Ps. I loved
Speaker 1: hearing you talk about your auditioning journey as an actor
Speaker 1: before a New Girl, when there were very few Indian
Speaker 1: people on her screens and those that were were often stereotypes.
Speaker 1: As a half Indian actor from Toronto, myself, I totally
Speaker 1: related to you. I think what you said about being
Speaker 1: at first being too Indian for roles and then suddenly
Speaker 1: they wanted to cast an Indian actor, wondering if you
Speaker 1: weren't Indian enough. It's something I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 1: actors of all differ races can relate to. I agree.
Speaker 1: I'm always auditioning for roles that they say is ethnically
Speaker 1: ambiguous because it's not immediately clear what my background is. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you for talking a bit about it and for
Speaker 1: being such a great character on our screens in New Girl.
Speaker 1: All the best, Fienna, Yeah, that was something I struggled
Speaker 1: with trying to get a job when I got here,
Speaker 1: is that if they wanted specifically Indian, I got so
Speaker 1: excited because I'm like, perfect, There's not a lot of
Speaker 1: us at this point right now, so here's me. And
Speaker 1: they would look at me and be like, no, you
Speaker 1: don't look like the stereotype of what we think it
Speaker 1: Indian is, and so I wouldn't get cast even though
Speaker 1: I'm Indian. It was so strange. Yeah, And then I'd
Speaker 1: go up for, you know, a role. Usually it was
Speaker 1: described as exotic at the time, and then they'd be like, no,
Speaker 1: she looks too like South Asian and I was like okay.
Speaker 1: So it was a struggle, which is why and I've
Speaker 1: told this many times before. When Liz Merriweather cast me
Speaker 1: in New Girl, I wrote her a thank you letter
Speaker 1: multiple times because I was like, man, you have no idea,
Speaker 1: because I had asked her like, why did you pick
Speaker 1: me for the role? And she said, well, you were
Speaker 1: just the funniest actress and that was refreshing. And that
Speaker 1: is the reason why any actor wants to get hired,
Speaker 1: because they are the best for the role. And that
Speaker 1: is how I got cast on the show, not because
Speaker 1: of what I was or wasn't ethnically, It was just
Speaker 1: because of how I connected to this character and how
Speaker 1: I chose to play her was exactly what Liz Merriweather wanted.
Speaker 1: So that was life changing for me to be cast
Speaker 1: for that reason and considered and chosen for that reason. Oh,
Speaker 1: as always, you guys asked the best questions. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, love these loft meetings. Please please please tag
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