Who’s that Guest? It’s New Girl Star Lamorne Morris!

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Welcome to lovestruck daily. I'm Alisha Rai.

And I'm Sarah Wendell.

And we deliver a love story every single day straight to your head.

I'm in love with that I'm in love with you. We have a very special guest today, we have a massive HEA for everyone's eardrums today.

Oh my gosh, I am so excited for this special guest.

Okay, before I squee and break the audio equipment, I want to know what is your relationship to New Girl?

Ah. Because I love new girls so much. I mean, this is one of those cult shows. Right? Everybody has a story. This is the office parks and rec new girls like right up there. I love the show. I loved it from the pilot onward. I think they were nominated for Emmys for that pilot. And I'm glad they work because they it was such a good pilot. And it's such a good show.

Now I do have to ask you, what do you think of leading men and cats,

I have a close personal relationship, leaving man with a cat. So I and you know what I was I was catfished into this. So when you were catfished into having a cat I was catfished into having a cat and we talked about this a lot. And I still have like a little bit of resentment about this because we met on Bumble and in in my partner's Bumble profile. It said he really loved dogs said nothing about a cat. And we had a great first date. Great second date. Third date I go over to his place and what is there a little tiny eight pound tuxedo cat named put in that is

that is not a dog. It is a cat. And I said oh, that's a cat.

I thought you had a dog. And he's like, No, I have a cat. I was like you didn't put there was pictures of you with a cat. And he was like, Yeah, cuz when guys put pictures of themselves with cats and dating profiles statistically, don't get a lot of

weight on it. Yes. Yeah,

it's a real statistic. Yeah, it got so

if a dude has a picture with a dog, it has better results than a dude

with a fracture of a can't any gender with a dog gets more results than any gender with a cat. Well,

speaking of being exactly who you are. We talk a lot about that with our very special guest.

Yes, very special guest I'm so excited.

I'm sure that people have guessed by now who we're talking about. But if you are not familiar, you might know him from woke on Hulu. From Desperados on

Netflix, fantastic. Rom Com.

And what's that? What's the show?

What's the let me What's it? Who's that girl? I think I think we're talking about new girl. And we're talking about our very own Winnie the Bish Winston Bishop Lamorne Morris.

And here is our interview with Lamorne Morris. Thank you so much for doing this. It is such an honor to meet you.

It's Oh my God, thank you.

Do you have this moment when you meet people? And they're sort of like looking at you like you were on my TV? And now you're here? Where do you get? Do you ever experience that pause on the receiving end?

Sometimes Sometimes I do the weirdest those is when it happens when you're when you're trying to get a job. Because nowadays everything is like, you know, I you know, I don't know, audition anymore. But meetings are done through zoom. Nothing's in person. And so, you know, there's a show you like and you want to meet with the director or showrunner and then or a producer and then the look on their face. Sometimes it can be a bit. Sometimes it's weird when when they do it just because it's like, you know, just give me the damn job that

look you already know clearly you've seen ya know what I can do? Yeah, rolling out of an air vent. I can do this for you.

We know that you have a new podcast. Welcome to our show, which is a rewatch podcast. What What brought you guys together to do that? Like did you did you have a conversation that spurred it? Or is it something that you've wanted to do for a while?

Well, you know, ever since we went off the air, it was always the question was always whether whether we do a reunion season or something in that in that vein, and with the the reemergence of the show on streaming platforms, you know, a whole new group of fans discovered the show, and I remember Hannah Simone calling me she was asking me about that particular thing. You know, she we all do we all the entire cast, we get a lot of fan requests for behind the scenes information, questions, things like that. And an idea of a rewatch podcast came up because people had started putting them out there office ladies and real friends fame doctors and an angle Yeah, I'm excited about that.

I heard you on the first episode of your podcast, you basically said that it was like, you could do it as like a sketch almost like a sketch comedy like you were you weren't like you didn't have like a defined character. And you could just kind of step into it. Right? Did they write to you basically them? Like, did you really shaped this character in a major way?

Yeah. I mean, that's what that's what it turned into. Again, we didn't know who Winston was. We didn't know where his character was going, where he was coming from, it was such a last minute thing that we ended up, we ended up kind of winging it, a little bit of where of where Winston was going, or at least at least where he was coming from emotionally and spiritually, and sometimes even physically, you could figure out you know, Winston is a weirdo. He's a lovable, weirdo. How do we, how do we tap into that as much as possible? And a lot of that was was play. A lot of that was off camera stuff between, between some of the actors in particular Jake Johnson,

talk about like creating a new community. I have a 22 year old brother. He's much younger, and like, new girl is like one of the three things we have in common, I think. And I told him, I was like, you know, like, Lamar and Morris is coming on the show. Do you have any questions? He was like, did he really get along with Ferguson the cat?

The Winston Ferguson relationship was that was the that was unexpected. That was unexpected. I'm allergic to cats. Yeah, and I have one courtesy of her partner. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

I would never like I would never allow a cat anywhere near me. And then I met this guy. And it's funny because when I met him he wasn't a sitcom person he never seen never seen new girl. I'm like a month into dating. He said like, oh, you know? Oh, you like New Girl Like I some people say I'm like a Winston if that means anything? And I was like that means everything to me. Did you really get along with Ferguson the cat?

Well, Ferguson is a diva, first of all. Oh, really? I mean, very confusing. The way they just run the room. And everyone's like, Oh, I guess we gotta wait for Ferguson now like, No, you gotta wait for me. Yeah, what do we do what I just show up two hours early, just so I can get like the scratchy throat and like hives. This is crazy. But now we end up getting along. Famously love, love Ferguson. Now, it was

kind of a redefinition of a hero of like a romantic lead, because you were so unapologetic. And Winston was so unapologetic, and how he approach love, did you like realize at the time that you were doing that, that you were kind of starting a discourse on, you know, redefining this, this idea of what a rom com lead is?

You know, I didn't have no idea. Yeah, and I appreciate that. Thank you for saying that I set the tone for a generation.

So oh, there's no question. No question, you are an archetype. Now like in romance, we talk about heroic archetypes. You have the alpha male, you have the solid loner, you have the the lone wolf, you have the openly affectionate confident dude who is going to demonstrate his affection without fear, you have defined a type like Winston is a type II Thank

you, you know, I credit the writers for that I credit Liz Meriwether. And they're they're writing to, to find the actor in the you know, in what it is that I was comfortable doing and who and who I am, who I truly am. And the things that I that I like portraying you know, when when you're acting, you have to find it the first figure out who you are. And then from there, you can you can see what parts of the character you can touch. And that particular part is, is something that is me, I would say. And there are moments, there are moments, when you're performing that you do, you do get a bit insecure when you're like you're trying new things, or you're trying some of the romantic stuff and saying the dialogue and sometimes you're trying to find it in when you have a partner who's very encouraging and allows you the space to to get there and would and would set you up for stuff that the cool thing about the relationship is that the seem that the actor would would set me up for bits a lot of times when I'm in that space or in that rhythm, she would keep feeding the fire and and then the editors and the writers they come together and they do what they do you know so it's a bit of a collaborative thing.

What's interesting is when you talk about improv and improv with your co workers and your in the other actors and the writers listening, and then the honesty and genuineness of the relationship, all of that speaks to a feeling of safety like you have to feel safe and have trust in your improv partner. You also have to have safety and trust with your coworkers, especially if you're portraying emotional intimacy. And you generally have to have that feeling of trust and safety with people who you are with in real life. as well, like all of these things are genuine aspects of the same issue.

Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, you're, you're trying things and then what we do we call it, commit to the bit. Like, if you're going to do it, you better do it. Go go completely crazy. And on that show, we are also encouraging of the weird. And that's not just in the romantic side that's in every aspect of that show. It's such it was such a fun creative set that no matter what the ask was, we knew that we felt comfortable doing it.

Yeah. And that genuineness comes through in Winston.

Absolutely, absolutely.

We talk about like, kind of controversial relationship tips that we have for ourselves or for you know, are always

with the door open. Always. It doesn't matter. With the door open. That's how you know, real love. Sorry.

That's a very I think that's a very Winston piece of advice, because show up exactly as he is including OOP time. Yeah, exactly.

I love.

Sorry, kid to you. You're saying I'm sorry.

No, I was gonna say like, sometimes it's okay to go to bed mad. Like, you're more so

real. You know, it's like, when you have an issue, you have to play out the full thing. Because if you hold stuff back and you just kind of say, You know what, I'm gonna drop it. There's some there's gonna be some some energy still left in there from that situation. And that's why and that's why now I go to bed alone, you know, because

you went to bed mad a few too many times. Yeah. Like every night, but like,

Oh, damn, I was picking fights. I thought we

put more nuance into this.

I just want to say thank you, because New Girl has gotten so many people through the pandemic. Oh, yeah. Your character has has been a part of people getting through something really awful. And that is a tremendous gift to give the world so thank you for that. Oh,

you in general because desperadoes was in 2020? Yeah, well, it was in 2012.

A busy 2020 I had a daughter during that time too. So yeah. I really busy 2020

a really busy 20

You are with the door open?

I gotta see what she's bringing

down the house or not? Yeah, it's really important. I was checking

in a security camera the other day. Usually when she cries i Wait a minute. I go let me see last time myself back to sleep. You know. And in this time, it was like, um, it's going on a little bit longer than normal. me check the camera. I check the camera, and she has learned how to crawl out of the crib. Oh, no.

That's a bad stage.

Oh my gosh. Like you've got to be joking. So. Oh, what a 17 month old baby.

Oh, she's a teenager. No, no, no, no, no, it's great. Congratulations for that. And congratulations again on your show. I appreciate you listen.

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as we sail into the day, let us grab some love to go shall we? Do you have any any particular sweet thought you want to bring out to the world from our episode today? You know, I really think it's just

the whole thesis of New Girl and um, Winston bishops character and actually kind of woke to and you know, his, his body of work has just to be loved for who you are quirks, cats. Everything in all,

one of the nicest compliments I have ever received was from a friend of mine named Aaron, who said, I love hanging out with you because I can always show up exactly how I am right now. Oh, I love that. Isn't that nice? Yeah, know that you can be with people who will welcome you exactly as you are even in that moment because you're not always the same every moment of every day. But yeah, be welcomed into into the spaces as to who and how you are. Be yourself everybody. If you want to email us and tell us about yourself, we would love to get to know you and welcome you into our show. You can email at Love Struck daily at Frohlich dot media. If you have a love story to share or any questions or concerns we want to hear from you. You can follow us on Instagram and Twitter at lovestruck daily for extra content, especially outtakes, possibly ones where I say bad words. And for all the cookies in the universe. leave a review subscribe spread the word that is how people discover podcasts. I've learned this over many years. Our researcher is Jesse Epstein. Our editor is Jen Jacobs. Thank you Jen. Our producer is Abigail Steckler and little Scorpion studios. Our behind the scenes Hatcher of plans is Gillian Davis and we are executive produced by Frohlich media. Thank you for listening to lovestruck daily we wish you a very happily ever after I'm in love with the love with you I'm in love with you