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Jamie Lee Curtis reveals she hated filming New Girl
Jamie Lee Curtis is a famous actor who has been in many TV shows and movies.
She recently told people at an event called NBCUniversal's Summer Backlot Experience that she did not like making a funny TV show called New Girl.
She said the show itself is great and very funny.
But making it felt like making a movie.
On a movie set, there is no audience laughing, and it is very quiet.
She said that quiet feeling was awful for her and not fun.
She prefers making shows where a live audience laughs along, which are called multi-camera sitcoms.
She learned to love that style when she made a show called Anything But Love.
Even though she did not love the experience, she still played a character named Joan Day on New Girl for several years.
Now she is helping make a new comedy called Newlyweds.
Jamie Lee Curtis revealed she 'hated' working on New Girl, calling its single-camera production process 'awful' and 'not fun.'
She praised the sitcom as a 'great show' and 'very funny' despite disliking the filming experience.
Curtis played Joan Day, the mother of Zooey Deschanel's character Jess, appearing in episodes of New Girl between 2012 and 2018.
She made the comments at NBCUniversal's Summer Backlot Experience, which Entertainment Weekly attended.
Curtis, an Emmy winner for her role as Donna Berzatto in The Bear, is an executive producer and recurring cast member on the upcoming NBC comedy Newlyweds.
- Who
- Jamie Lee Curtis, the actor who played Joan Day on New Girl
- What
- Revealed she hated filming the single-camera sitcom New Girl, calling the experience 'awful' and 'not fun'
- Where
- NBCUniversal's Summer Backlot Experience
- When
- At NBCUniversal's Summer Backlot Experience; her New Girl appearances ran from 2012 to 2018
- Why
- Because she found the single-camera process, which lacks a live audience and laughter, too similar to making a film
Key facts
- Actor
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Show
- New Girl
- Role
- Joan Day, mother of Jess (played by Zooey Deschanel)
- New Girl appearances
- 2012–2018, several episodes
- Event
- NBCUniversal's Summer Backlot Experience
- Key quote
- "It's silent, and it's awful. For me, awful. Single-camera comedies, for me, not fun."
- Current project
- Newlyweds, upcoming NBC comedy (executive producer and recurring role)
- Notable awards
- Emmy for The Bear; Golden Globe for Anything But Love (1990)
Quotes
Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress and former multi‑camera sitcom star
“I did a single camera, which, I mean — great show, New Girl, very funny — it’s a good show, but doing it is just like doing a movie, you know, you’ve got a camera crew, and nobody laughs. It’s silent, and it’s awful. For me, awful. Single-camera comedies, for me, not fun.”
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