Q&A with Hannah Simone

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Ring Ring Ring Ring. May I please speak with Zoe? Oh, Hello,
La More, Let's patch in Hannah. God, I forgot what
it was like working with you guys. Hey everyone, So

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I'm super excited today because I'm so excited to be
answering your questions. And that's really what this entire podcast
was created for. We just wanted to go episode by
episode and through all the guest stars and directors and
writers to help answer all of the big burning New
Girl questions. That's what led us to create the podcast

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because we were constantly being asked all the questions and
a lot of the times we didn't have the answers,
so we'd go seek that you know, wanted to go
seek them out, but then how do we share them widely?
And we came up with this idea for a podcast.
So this is our first ever answer the fans questions episode.
I used to be a VJ on Much Music, and

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you know, we'd have like a whole hour of just
throwing to videos or whatever, and I would always push
UM to at least once a week have one where
people could call in UM or they would email in
live and ask questions UM or have you know things
read on air, and it was always my favorite thing.

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You you know, that feeling of just being connected and
having it being interactive. It's my jam you guys, So
thank you for all the great questions that have been
sent in. And if you are listening and have questions
or rewatching the show and have questions, please please please
email your questions to us at Welcome to our Show
podcast at gmail dot com. And you can also just

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send in like a voice no of your question and
then we can play your question on air so everybody
can hear your beautiful voice. All right, let's dive in.
Cassidy Holmes asked, as we know Reagan and Nick eventually
broke up. I was wondering which of the main characters
exes would you guys set up with Reagan. Thank you

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and lots of love. Well, Cassidy, I think the answer
to that question is very simple, and it's not exactly
from the pool of people that you've asked me to
pick from. From one of the main characters exes, um,
it's one of the main characters. I think that I

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would have Reagan take another spin around the block with
one of her exes, Cci. I think that would have
been fun Cecy and Reagan rekindled their flame. Just a thought.
If you could play any other character on the show,
who would you want to play? And why? This is
from Madeline Pope. Uh, I could play any character on

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this show. I feel like, well, I have two that
I would have liked to play. One. I think I
would have liked to play Nick Miller. He got to
walk around, be grumpy, always have a beer in his hand,
and was always sitting down dream job, dream character loved it.

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Um or Ferguson. Why not? This is a make believe scenario.
I'd be a cat. I love cats. Everybody knows me
and knows I love cats. Sure, in this make belief scenario,
I would like to be a cat and a TV
cat get paid to be a cat sounds great. And
in this make belief scenario, because Lamourne is actually allergic

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to cats, so he couldn't really handle cat actor Ferguson,
my character c C always had to well know me
Cec in the scene. Me as Hannah was always have
to like hold Ferguson in the scene because Lamarn actually couldn't.
So now we're getting in deepier guys, I as Cecy

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would then beholding myself as ferguson. What do you think
of that? Kate asked a question as I just watched
the intro for the millionth time while still smiling and
singing the tune in my head, Hey Girl. I was one,
what's not hey girl? It's hey girl? Right? Not hey girl? UM?

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I was wondering what the story is behind the opening.
Everyone's facial expressions in the intro makes me giggle. I
would love to hear you guys tell a story on
the podcast about how the intro came to be, any
memories from filming at etcetera. You guys are awesome and
I'm loving listening to the podcast every week. Thank you
while I drive around for work all day. Really brings
me joy and makes my Monday much better. Kate, Well,

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that's nice, Kate. Here's the thing. I can't help you
with that answer because I'm not in the opening. Who
wasn't in the opening? Um? And I also wonder what
it was like. It's really funny. We've never really talked
about it. I've never asked about it. I have the

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same question, would any of you guys be friends with
the characters who played if they were people you met
in real life? That's from Sam Hayes. Honestly, I think
all the main characters I for sure would be friends
with in real life. Love Jess, Love Schmidt, Love Nick
Love Coach. They're all fun, goofy, weird, big hearted, silly people.

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I could kick it with all of them. I'd be
friends with all of them. That's what I'm That's what
I'm saying. Welcome to We have a question from Tia
in Belgium. I'm a huge fan of yours the show.

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On the podcast, I was wondering if there were any
celebrities you wish you got to work with on the
show besides all the cool guest stards who were already
on keep up the good work. Uh, I mean we
had Taylor Swift, we had Prints, we had Parker Posey,
Jamie Lee, Curtis, Rob Reiner. I mean the list is
so long, arn kill him. I mean, the list just

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keeps going, the hits keep coming. Um, I don't. I
was always surreal who would show up and guests are
on the show. It always blew my mind. I always
felt so um overwhelmed and also slash confused, like why
are you here? And that was just really based on

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the incredible relationships that a lot of the cast had,
and Liz Merryweather and Jake Hasden and Baron Dave Finkel,
and they just had incredible relation ships and people wanted
to be on the show, and then a lot of
people were just actually fans of the show, which was
also so confusing and wonderful and strange. So no, I

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can't think of anybody else. I feel like so many
of the actors that I adored showed up and sat
in a trailer next to me, and I tried not
to stare. Sarah asked, I was wondering, if you guys
know who created the decorn set in the loft. I mean,
if you know of any story behind the blue glass scrapes.

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My friend and I are huge New Girl fans, and
we both found duplicates of those glass grapes to keep
in our living room as a nod to the show.
So I was just wondering. Thanks. I remember, because at
the end of the series they kind of let everybody
go on like pick one or two things. Oh and
I can't remember who got the blue grapes, but I
do know that they were referred to as blue balls.

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I do know everyone's like, who's getting the blue balls?
Who's getting blue balls? Also? Why do we have blue
balls as part of set? De core um? What does
that say about our show? So? I remember that's what
they were referred to as UM, but I don't know
who took them, but I remember there was a couple
of people who wanted them. A lot of people wanted

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blue balls on our set. If Jess didn't end up
with Nick, who would be the best partner for her?
From Heidi huh? I mean Dr Sam was pretty swell, right,
he was pretty great David Walton's character. I feel like

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that was a good fit. I don't know. That's hard
to say, because man, Nick and Jess felt just so faded.
It's hard to separate, you know, yourself from that and
think there's like a sliding doors thing where she lives
a whole other life with someone else. I don't know, Nadia.

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Maybe it gets real weird if we're going to go
into an alternate universe for just maybe she spends the
rest of her days um falling madly in love with
Nadia the Russian model. Let's just get weird with it.
Lauren asks, do you think Ceci ever spoke to Shivrang again?

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I mean, I feel like Elaine a k a. Taylor
Swift just took off running with her man. I don't
know if she could find Shifraing to talk to him again.
So in real life, Um, the incredible Satia Baba who
played Shippraing Um is someone I adore so deeply, and

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we connected and bonded and formed such a real wonderful
friendship on that set. That then we did a movie
together called Miss India America that I produced and he
was in, and we had a scene together. They're in that,
which is really funny. So if you want to see
c C and Shivrang, Hannah and Sathia reunite, go watch

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Miss India America and you'll see this together in a
very weird scene where we talked about a very intense
car crash at a beauty pageant. There you go. What
was the most difficult stunt you had to pull off
while filming New Girl from Ryan Stunt, I don't know

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what the most difficult stunt was. I didn't really have
a lot of stunts. I feel like the episode um
at the car show, Um, where Zoe actually had to
go around and around, but her incredible stunt double was
doing a lot of that work too, but Zoe had
to do I think a weird piece of it with
her heel stuck in Um. I think she had to

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do part of that. Maybe that was all her stunt double,
but I remember being on set that day and it
did not look easy. We had a lot of fun
stunts on our show, but we had an incredible stunt
team and stunt coordinator and they pulled off some awesome,
awesome stuff. So I feel like, well, I definitely got

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spared lots of it. You're all had amazing outfits during
your time on the show. Do you have a favorite
costume that's from Azalea Oh? Um. Debra McGuire was the
head of our wardrobe department. She is phenomenal and a
living legend. Um. Do I have a favorite costume? You know?

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This is so cheesy because there was a lot of big,
fun ones, like the big bird costume that I talked
about in the first episode of this podcast that nobody
saw um because it ended up on the cutting room floor.
The wedding outfit, the chevrang Um wedding that we did
where I got to go down to Artesia with Debora

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McGuire and we found these incredible Indian wedding outfits that
was incredible and fun. But the one I remember the
most because it was my first ever fitting for New
Girl for the pilot was the pair of blue overalls

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and it was very surreal at the end of the
series to put them back on. I just remember them.
Welcome to Maya asks, you guys ate a lot on

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the show where the meal is always practical, What was
the best meal you ate in character? Huh? I honestly
don't remember. I honest they don't remember. Maybe because Cecy
didn't actually eat a ton on that show. I didn't

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have a lot of eating scenes. I know. We we
did a lot of big Thanksgiving episodes where had to
sit around a table full of food and we never
ate that food, and we would sit there for like
ten hours around a huge table of food. Um, but
it wasn't meant for eating. There were sometimes things on

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our plates that we could pick at, but for continuity,
I always found it a little difficult to keep trek
when you're filming those huge scenes, so I think we
kind of just pushed our food around a little bit.
That wraps up our first ever episode of Answer the
Fan questions for a New Girl. Thank you for all
your great questions. Please please send us more. I can't

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wait to do another one of these with Ze and
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