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Which is not unlike a thing Jess might do inNew Girl.Both Jess and Elizabeth Holmes are very awkward.
Her awkward devotion to things was this really interesting, absurd thing about the character.
The more two opposing forces are meeting, the funnier its going to be.
Elizabeth is coming to it from that point of view and Phyllis is like, Slow down.
I wanted the audience to be aware of those dynamics.
Theres another scene,in episode two, when Elizabeth interrupts a birthday celebration for Edmund Ku.
I dont know what Im allowed to say in this situation.The Easy-Bake Oven joke is so sad.
Really heartbreaking but also funny.
But its also her stepping into her power.
Actually, walking into the room with them singing Happy Birthday is based on me.
That section was really close to my heart.
I understood there were shades of it.
I never wanted the jokes to allow the audience to distance themselves from Elizabeth.
I never wanted to be laughing at her.
There are moments when you are, but thats not the intent.
The intent was to highlight the absurdity of the situation and to show the humanity of all the characters.
A drama writer wouldve maybe been uncomfortable with theshameof it.
Oof.It just chilled me to my core.
But I wanted to show the intimacy and history and connection between them.
Thats where some of those dancing scenes came from, like that scene with the Lil Wayne song.
My favorite moments in bothNew GirlandThe Dropoutare physical moments or, like, justlooksbetween actors.
I dont write that, I write the moment.
The actor takes it and runs with it.
What did you think when that came out?Maybe what theyre really saying is they wantcheapercomedies.
It all happened in this one set.
But when we were makingNew Girl, nobody wantedNew Girl.
I remember I had this very funny meeting with the president of Fox.
They always wanted it to be a show that, quote-unquote, everybody could watch.
Like Why is this notModern Family?
It was always, How are we going to get older men to watch this?
Thats not how the business model works now.
Now its, Lets make shows for niche audiences.
But at the time we were chasing an imaginary 45-year-old man whos like, New Girl?
I guess Ill give this a try.
In that meeting, the president of Fox held up this graph of our viewership decline from the premiere.
As if I didnt know.
When I heard that Netflix said that, I laughed.
Because thats not how you make television.
You dont just make a thing like a thing.
It was this huge full-circle moment.
Where do I go from here?
