Max Greenfield on becoming SCHMIDT and a possible New Girl Reunion | We're Here to Help Clips

I got a question for you actually that I've talked Without You on but how did you know the tone of new girl before the rest of us cuz obviously Zoe and I thought we were doing Freaks and Geeks yeah and we've talked about this yeah Liz I think was all over the place she was kind of the genius but she was doing all shows finle was more like when you say finle and Brett finle was more in your camp but Brett was more in the me and Zoe Camp I think they all you but you knew what you were doing I think Knew Too you did yeah and I think I think I mean it's it structurally was was is no different than most TV shows right you had like you can like big Bang's a good example you brought this up I remember it you had uh Johnny golui and and kayy quo were doing their their thing and establishing that relationship which is the centerpiece of the show right but you need the third piece which is Jim Parson because if you're on if you're on a a half hour on network TV it's like the love story is nice but we build that over time yeah you need like the you need the jokes the punchline guy and so and that balances out and you ride with the punchline jokes punchline guy until you catch up with the the love story and so it wasn't even that I understood the tone of the show it's that it was very evident what you guys were doing I never forget I walked by the monitor one day and you and Zo we were doing like some toothbrush thing right and you were like oh my God this is you guys were like it was so clear and you guys were doing incredible work and it was subtle and it was really nice and you were like this is you know this is Sam and Diane this is every great love story on a network TV show and I go okay that's that part of the show and then I think it was like I forget what episode it was it was early on but I had to do that thing where you guys walk in uh to the room and I'm like trying to figure out where I look sexiest in in in my bedroom yes this is like episode two or three yeah yeah yeah and I'm like pushing it yeah and you guys are just down there like going what is happening well that's I I remember we talked about it I was like I don't get what show you're on or what show I'm on but but even like but that was your reaction not only in real life but in the scen yes and and and then every everybody's coming in and they're going oh this is and I go okay great this is what they want this to be you guys and also Lamor wasn't a thing on the show yet and they they had put him on a shelf they had told us they put him on a shelf so it was really just the three of us yeah you're not wrong and so that was the structure Hanah hadn't started really no she was she wasn't even a regular on the show at that point it was just the three of us and I was like if this is the three of us this is the thing yeah it was like the you you have to balance the tones where do you Max so when did you realize oh this is a a [ __ ] real Arc here cuz you would then lean into that cuz I thought at the beginning if you remember we thought for sure it was going to be Damon and her uh Damon and Hannah from the it was very clear there and then Schmidt was kind of bouncing around as the funny guy then when Lamor came for some reason it was very clear it ain't going to be Lam more I don't know why but it ain't GNA be these two but we got a woman whose character is straight up a model yeah and she was her contract was something like 13 out of we're g to she's going to be around it can't just be with Zoe on her adventures yeah but there was a moment when it started well Liz and Brett and Dave were super smart in that they just let the show sort of play out and then wrote to what they were sort of seeing on you're totally right and I think smartly I think they notice oh I think we can do more with my character than just make him like the woman on the show and like he's got a new girl and it was like What if we put him with with like everything seemed to be working really well with Hannah's character and so I think and what ended up happening was which I think was great was they put us together and you know they gave us some some obstacles in the beginning and it was hit or miss and then but it allowed you guys they sped our relationship up in order to slow yours down oh that's interesting and so if you look at like all of the big things that happened or a lot of the big things that happened like we were the setpiece for a lot of big moments for you guys huh so it was like explain what you CCE and Schmid's wedding right is a moment for Nick and Jess oh right you know I mean and it was like Schmid and CeCe or whatever like whatever they're like they're getting engaged these things are happening in these big big story movs what would be like a movie right we get to play out the Jess Nick stuff yeah within that and that creates the set piece for you guys yeah yeah yeah and so I I like I really I love that Dynamic yeah me did too it was fun um and it I think it all was in service of that relationship yeah I actually think it was all in service and when I look back on that show and we've talked about it off air but the hit that that thing has done on Netflix and its new life I didn't see happening I by the end of our show we did not get big ratings we were not we didn't all go on Conan in director's chairs and get a big Applause it wasn't a big ending so the fact that it's had this whole second life has given me time to like actually learn like gratitude about it and appreciation as opposed to like fun job L the good bits fun goofing r with Max and being like I'm 45 and there's like a new person who loves the show yeah you're like pretty [ __ ] cool man yeah and I think we lived on Netflix for a really long time and and I I I like joke about this with my daughter who's now 14 crazy that she's 14 she's just the kids all know about it at that age but they're not like fully into it interesting it get it's like they're just before it's really college kids yeah interesting um cuz they're they're in their dorms they got nothing to do and also you know I think there was I also think there was an in insane influx of people who were introduced to that show during Co and pic changed everything I'm just going to watch they missed having a group of friends totally who were nice to each other and all came together at the end but because it's so available now I think you know you get these like there's always going to be new college kids and they're going to and they're going to always Discover it and it's going to be super weird because you know we're going to be 60 like not soon man and there's going to be like you know 23-year-old girls we're going to be like this 29 and I'm going to be like this oh my God 48 brother you know what's going to be funny 62 you know we talked about it before we were all like you know little [ __ ] about it whatever this idea of like will there ever be a something you know we're like I don't know what it means there's eventually one day the rubber is going to meet the road and we're all going to be together doing something I don't know what it is oh the old girl but the but whatever that bit whatever that thing is if it keeps living on look if it's on Hulu and then it eventually dies out it'll go away but if people do keep finding it the idea of what that reunion would be it's not going to be three EP it's not going to do what Will and Grace I don't think new girl will ever go away yes you don't no no no no so this is what I'm saying about so you even said when we first started season one I was having a freakout it's too much work for me uh I couldn't keep up with the lines I was just get stopping with weed but I was drinking so much it was too much for me I was Los I was losing it you also were you were in a tough position because Zo is the lead of the show yes so I was in her stories and you had to ground her stories yes and you're watching me run around and bounce off the walls and hit every punch line and the writers are just like giving me joke after joke after joke after joke after joke and I remember you were like I'm did they not think I'm funny what do I need to do here totally but also I was there all the time CU I would be in your scenes too totally so I was there all and also beforeand I had no experience so I was I was used to being eth on call sheet working on a Tuesday I get it and I was like this shit's too much but your position on the show was was always like I've been there before we were going what am what am I even doing yeah yeah yeah what is going on here totally I don't like but you really quick were a big part of the turn for me you remember the scene I'm talking about outside of the house where there was a scene where we were I think it was parking lot or something like parking spot something we all had to run we were here and they wanted in a wide shot run to the garbage can throw something out run back oh yeah every take Max did video Village was given like a standing ovation it was like a VA villian show where the audiences were throwing roses Zoe was going everyone was happy I was going there' be like a real long pause and then everyone would come back be like really great great great Max yeah yeah and then they go running to the garbage before we did the take I go I did want and Jake's go what the [ __ ] and I go Jake watch I'm going to do a and I was aware yes I said I'm going to do a ridiculous one yeah even for me yeah and I go Watch What Happens literally right before go showing up watch this and I literally did brazili Jiu-Jitsu cartwheels you know what you really speaking of the Seinfeld you did Kramer cuz you would run out and then you would do like a then you would spin You' see the garbage you'd be like whoa whoa you took every moment heightened heightened heightened big laughs so then he said to cuz I was banging my head against the wall and I'm like there's no bit I'm just throwing something out and he goes listen pretend there's a live studio audience and he goes can you hear them can you see we're doing it and I was like I got them they're all there I did a take to be a brat to just make Max laugh a big part of that job was making each other laugh well I mean when it turned into that it became the most fun for for me hands down it's what I when I look back it's literally you and me I think probably if if there's a version of us not like totally losing it that maybe that show's still on the air I don't want to be on it man but he goes pretend there's an audience I do a take where I think afterwards I'm GNA have a talk about my attitude problem I'm like it's so broad I'm literally running like I have clown shoes on afterwards Brad and Dave yeah that's it man and I had this like really clear moment of like now I'm lost because so funny to have a clear moment of I don't know but now I my head just got cut off I'm a chicken and the race just started but I'm leaning in oh man well before we let you go Max uh in terms of when we started New Girl season one at some point I said uh how many of these you think are going to go and you said we're doing at least five years and we would have moments and then you'd be right so you said before you're like new girl's going to keep coming back what do you think is going to happen in terms of some idea of a reunion some idea of a something what do you think the end goal thing will be what do you think it'll kind of look like that we'll all eventually do or nothing because I have no gut instinct I mean it's really where it's up to Liz yeah I what would be your gut thing that you think would be because like we're all still like the amount of time I still text with Zoe with you with lamort with Hannah it's like it's still going in ways other projects don't I've done movies where I really like everybody and then everyone just kind of scatters I think it's partly because of Netflix that we keep getting brought back that I'm like if you would have asked me two years ago will there ever be a reunion I would have said a 100,000 NOS is there any talk of anything or you it'll get it'll keep getting like brought up randomly whenever you have to do press they'll say something and mine has always been these are ridiculous questions cuz it's not going to happen just recently with like a new generation of young people I'm like eventually something is happen I I so the the new girl writers room would do this secret santa every year okay and it was a big deal JJ Filman is like this is her Super Bowl every year it's her favorite thing in the world and Sarah Tapscott got real into it and they do this thing and they buy these elaborate gifts or like these like wild like somebody there was like a Billy Joel insane like insanely elaborate truly hilar hilarious gifts and it was a big deal who got who when they was anyway so I had heard about it in the that last season that like smaller eighth season or seventh season um when we were shooting at that new studio I go uh and like the writers room was right upstairs I go I'm going to go to this and so I went up there and I watched and it was and everybody knew it was the last season and it was like and JJ and Sarah are like decorating the whole room and it was it was and it the vibe was amazing exed andj had Liz and so I and you know JJ's a neighbor and I and I and I saw her doing like making these things that the house B never put two and two together she presents the gift to Liz and this is on last season and I'm going oh oh I vely remember this and J JJ had made dolls of each character they about like this big and she had like and they were pretty good but they were also sort of funny cuz they were clearly homemade yeah watching Liz open that and start to like get emotional and look at these like ridiculous dolls it made me realize that she is invested and always will be in this show and these characters right in a way that I will never understand yeah totally as many as many times if I've showed up and played that character what I'm it there's I can't even see how she sees it totally so it's whatever she yeah you're exactly right so it really comes down to like if they're going to come if I mean I'm sure if she wanted to do something she could do it tomorrow the only way would ever happen and if it happened she would come there would be a text around and she go I have an idea yeah and she was like I finally feel like there's a version of this that and I don't know that she ever gets there cuz I remember watching that like Friends reunion and and and I who was it it was Lisa kudro had said she was talking about the creators of the show and she was saying you know you work so hard to to wrap everything up in the end if you come back you got to undo that stuff totally right and we ended in a in an odd way where it was this Flash Forward so you can't really like go back in time so now we'd be going past then and then you're introducing kids it's a whole thing and like who knows but again like if Liz if she cracks it if Liz and if also if Liz cracked it and she was like and she was like I'm I I I really have a great idea and I want to do this that's I go back then yeah interesting but it's interesting anything other than that it's not a real it's not a real conversation but it's also because it is one of those last net big network shows not every show would have the audience or the opportunity to do something like that right and that's why like if you have Netflix where people keep rediscovering it tot there's actually an appetite for something like that where there probably isn't with shows that are on air as much yeah and and and and what you hope you don't do is is ruin it's not going back and got paid the way they did the Seinfeld reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm was one of those kind of loophole reunion shows where you kind of got to see it all but it wasn't like that but whatever anything but I agree with you about the Liz thing I don't think there's any uh besides it's fun doing press and always blaming it on leamor and saying if you ever do press go you want do aren go we're all in but Lamor won't do the contract besides that fun he he's the he blamed it on you didn't he he does oh it's not funny now well I know we he and I are just constantly going after each other these days he did a whole thing about like and then Liz sent out a text and was like Lam more what are you doing cuz he do he goes Jake Johnson will do he's too expensive you're the best Max this was the best hey everybody thank you guys for watching us on YouTube please like And subscribe so you don't miss any of this quality content bringing here to help go ahead cut