One Of New Girl's Best Schmidt & Nick Moments Was Totally Improvised
In the series finale of New Girl, one of the best moments featuring Nick (Jake Johnson) and Schmidt (Max Greenfield) was not originally written in the script, but totally improvised. New Girl began in 2011 and continued for seven successful seasons on FOX. Though the show is over, it has achieved streaming immortality via Netflix, and still manages to attract old and new viewers alike thanks to the chemistry of the cast. In that aforementioned scene, the actors improvised the majority of the flashback between the two characters, in which they speculate about the potential adventures that may happen in their brand new loft.
Improv by the actors was a common occurrence behind the scenes of New Girl, and many of the show's most iconic scenes were actually ad-libbed. There were also a lot of adjustments made to characters and plot lines that were significantly influenced by the actors. For example, the original plan for New Girl's Nick Miller was very different; he was meant to be the smartest friend in the group, but the producers chose to play to Jake Johnson's comedic strengths, which made him more immature, lazy, and lovable.
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In the New Girl series finale, there is a scene that flashes back to when Nick and Schmidt first moved into the loft. Though the script had Nick voicing his dreams of being a writer and falling in love and Schmidt becoming a husband and father, actors Jake Johnson and Max Greenfield took the opportunity to have one more classic exchange between the two best friends. Johnson asked Greenfield, as Schmidt, to tell him about the girl of his dreams, and Greenfield answered with an exact description of Nick, including everything he was wearing in
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