Here's an interview that the creator and executive producer of New Girl, Elizabeth Meriwether, did with E! Online's Tierney Bricker where Meriwether talks about last night's episode, episode 2x23 "Virgins". In the interview, Meriwether talks about what it was like for the writers to come up with each of the characters' stories of how they lost their virginity. Meriwether also talks about the ending of the episode where Jess and Nick sleep with each other. Here's an excerpt from the article where Elizabeth Meriwether talks about the writing process for coming up with each characters' story of how they lost their virginity:
OK, first: How much fun did you guys have coming up with each of the characters virginity stories?
It was really fun. A lot of the stories unfortunately came from semi-real places that the writers were pitching. I don't think anybody has a really great losing their virginity story. [Laughs.] We chose to do it they reveal something about who you are and who you become. It's a great way of learning about a person, I think, to ask them that question. It was really fun for us to do with our characters because we felt like we were getting to know the characters even better by deciding how they lost their virginity. It was just really fun and I'm really glad we ended up doing it. I mean, all of our writers are pretty broken, funny, damaged people, so some of them had good stories!
Which backstory was the most fun to write?
I mean, I love writing College Nick and Fat Schmidt (Max Greenfield). They're so funny and that was definitely really easy and really fun. That scene where Schmidt is asking Nick for sex advice was so fun for me. I loved writing that.
And which one was the hardest?
The one with the prostitutes, I guess. I was definitely nervous that we were going a little too far. I don't know, I had never really written a prostitute in anything that I've ever written, so I was struggling to find the right voices for those women. I think it turned out really funny and hopefully they feel sort of real and kind of funny.
Did you guys reach to Mick Jagger to possibly make a quick cameo in Cece's (Hannah Simone) flashback?
We definitely didn't. We didn't go for Mick Jagger. We felt like Mick Jagger has better things to do with his time. [Laughs.]
Link to the full article:New Girl Romance Bombshell: Boss Liz Meriwether Spills Scoop on What's Next For Nick and Jess! | E! Online
My thoughts: As I said in my post on the Entertainment Weekly article about last night's episode (New Girl: Jake Johnson talks [SPOILER] scene with Zooey Deschanel), I definitely think it was a pretty risky move on Elizabeth Meriwether and the writers' part to have Jess and Nick kiss each other for the first time and now sleep together when it's still fairly early in New Girl's run, but I definitely think that it has really paid off from a creative standpoint. As for what virginity story that I liked the most, I loved them all, with the exception of the story of how Nick and Winston lost their virginity. Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate it, I just thought that it was more bizarre than it was funny. I'll talk about my thoughts on last night's episode in more detail in my review of the episode though.
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