It looks like the New Girl reunion rumors have officially entered the “everyone has a different version of the story” phase.
Max Greenfield recently got fans talking when he suggested that a New Girl reunion was happening. Now, creator Liz Meriwether has jumped into the conversation with a much more chaotic update about the supposed scripts — including some truly wild requests from the cast.
“As far as I know, it’s happening,” Greenfield recently said on Today with Jenna & Sheinelle about a potential New Girl reunion. He added that he’s “seen scripts” Meriwether’s written and that they’re “amazing.”
Meriwether, though, seemed to have some notes of her own about Greenfield’s comments. In an Instagram post, she joked that the scripts started out “pretty good” before the cast apparently got involved.
“Max told everybody that there’s amazing scripts of a New Girl reunion that I’ve written. Um — and just an update on that — the scripts were pretty good until everybody just started giving me notes on every little thing,” she joked.
And when it came to Jake Johnson, those alleged notes apparently included getting Nick Miller into considerably less clothing.
“Jake wants Nick to be, like, really thin — and wants to kind of be naked a lot, showing off his body,” Meriwether said of Jake Johnson, who played Nick on the show. “He asked to have a dance number with him, fully nude, dancing to ‘Levitating,’ by Dua Lipa.”
There was just one problem: Meriwether apparently couldn’t find a way to make a completely nude Nick dancing to Dua Lipa work in the story.
Meriwether said that “it didn’t really make any sense in the story,” so she had to figure out a way to shut down Johnson’s idea. She added that he got “really upset” in response.
Johnson wasn’t the only cast member supposedly submitting increasingly specific notes. According to Meriwether, Lamorne Morris had some ideas for Winston Bishop’s accessories, too.
“Lamorne keeps asking for more and more jewelry. For his character, he wants a very long chain, like a chain all the way down to his knees.”
Then there’s Greenfield, who apparently wanted to take the show’s title in a very different direction.
Lastly, she said Greenfield “has been very adamantly asking to be the new girl. Like, he wants the title to be, ‘Max Greenfield is the New Girl.’”
“Again, I thought that would throw audiences and, you know, nobody really wanted that,” Meriwether jokingly added. “I wasn’t going to say any of this publicly, but then Max decided to make it all public, so again, I have to comment.”
For now, though, fans shouldn’t start making plans to return to apartment 4D just yet. There has been no official confirmation of a New Girl reunion, with Greenfield’s comments appearing to be the latest bit of fuel for the long-running speculation.
Johnson subsequently weighed in on Greenfield’s claims, and he had a pretty funny theory about where the confusion came from.
In an Instagram Story Monday, Johnson joked that he thinks Greenfield may have mistaken Meriwether’s new show for New Girl. “I think I figured out what happened with this Max Greenfield and the script thing for New Girl. I just saw Liz Meriwether’s new show, Furious. I think Max read those scripts,” he said. “I totally get it. It happened to me too many times. I love you, Max, but that’s a different show, my brother.”
So, no reunion just yet. But if one does eventually happen, it sounds like Meriwether may have to negotiate a few unusual cast demands first — starting with Johnson’s very specific vision for Nick.
New Girl, which also starred Zooey Deschanel, Hannah Simone and Damon Wayans Jr., ran for seven seasons from 2011 to 2018.
