Jamie Lee Curtis has clarified her comments on working as a guest star on the Fox sitcom New Girl.
“As if we don’t have bigger issues facing Americans and the world at large and natural disasters and unnatural behaviors of despots than to be concerned about a flip comment picked up at a press moment promoting Newlyweds [on] NBC,” Curtis, 67, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, August 11, alongside a photo of herself on the set of New Girl with its star Zooey Deschanel and recurring star, the late Rob Reiner.
Curtis, who played Deschanel’s Jess Day’s mom, Joan Day, across multiple guest appearances on New Girl, continued, “I was there gushing about a multi-camera sitcom that I co-created along with Gail Lerner about a late-in-life love and people finding each other and marrying on a whim. It stars Tea Leoni and Tim Daly as the couple and we are having so much fun and the audiences are loving it and I was comparing how much I liked doing the show live in front of a studio audience, which is almost like doing a play where you get immediate feedback, to the experience of doing a single camera comedy like New Girl where there’s absolutely no feedback.”
The Bear star had addressed her New Girl experience during an NBC backlot experience staged in Los Angeles on Monday, August 10, describing her time on the show as like “doing a movie” where nobody reacts to performances. “It’s silent, and it’s awful, for me, awful,” she told fans at the event.
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In her Instagram post, Curtis explained, “I said it wasn’t my favorite experience, although the show itself is fantastic and the team that made it are talented and … Zooey Deschanel is an absolute gem of a human and I said I got to play with my friend, Rob Reiner, as exes and that was sweet and lovely.”
She concluded the post, “Please, let’s not waste clicks and comments and just move on to WAY more important things. That will be all.”
Fans were quick to show their support for Curtis’ post, taking to the comments section to share clapping hand emojis and heart emojis in addition to messages. “I saw that and I completely understood where you were coming from. Multi-camera with an audience is a totally different experience than a single-camera comedy. You prefer the live feedback of an audience. I totally get that!” wrote one fan.
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Another fan commented “Very clear to anyone who bothers to watch the whole clip.”
New Girl, a show about a quirky teacher who moves into a loft with three single men following a breakup, ran on ABC from September 2011 until May 2018 and starred Deschanel, 46, alongside Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone. It later picked up a fresh legion of fans after streaming on Netflix.
