Jamie Lee Curtis Clarifies She Wasn’t Ripping ‘New Girl,’ Calling Zooey Deschanel “An Absolute Gem Of A Human.”
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Curtis wrote her clarification the day after the panel, telling followers that Americans have “bigger issues” to worry about “than to be concerned about a flip comment picked up at a press moment.”
Her original remark, made at NBCUniversal’s Summer Backlot Experience on Aug. 10, was about single-camera comedies feeling like filming a movie with a silent crew and no live audience. Here is the full quote:
“I did a single-camera, which I hated. I mean, great show, New Girl, very funny. It’s a good show, but doing it is just like doing a movie. You know, you’ve got a camera crew, and nobody laughs. It’s silent, and it’s awful. For me, awful. Single-camera comedies, for me, not fun.”
She was contrasting that with “Newlyweds,” the multi-camera NBC sitcom she co-created with Gail Lerner, which stars Téa Leoni and Tim Daly as a couple who marry on a whim late in life. It premieres Oct. 23.
Performing in front of a studio audience, she wrote, is “almost like doing a play where you get immediate feedback.” Curtis has said she’d been asking her agents for a multi-cam for years.
She played Joan, Jess’s mother, across six episodes of “New Girl” starting in 2012, opposite Rob Reiner’s Bob Day across 11. The pairing came together for the Season 2 Thanksgiving episode and stuck. Curtis and Reiner have been friends for years through her husband, Christopher Guest, Reiner’s longtime collaborator on “This Is Spinal Tap” and “The Princess Bride.” In her post she called that dynamic “sweet and lovely.”
“So please, let’s not waste clicks and comments and just move on to WAY more important things,” she wrote. “That will be all.”
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