This being the fate that befell recently crowned Garfield Lamorne Morris this week (per Deadline), with Johnson answering questions about such a reunion at SXSW this weekend by declaring, “We’re all in besides Lamorne… Because he got an Emmy and he thinks they’re better than us.” (Johnson was referencing Morris’ Best Supporting Actor win for the fifth season of Fargo a few years back.) “And I have direct quotes saying ‘I’m too talented and too funny to be on a sitcom with you, hacks.’”
Johnson—who was at SXSW in part to promote his new Joe Swanberg film The Sun Never Sets, which just happens to co-star his old pal Lamorne Morris—actually went on at length on this topic, inciting the ire of New Girl fans as best he could. “By the way, we’re with the fans,” he added. “All the fans want it too, write to Lamorne on Instagram. Because he doesn’t want it. He doesn’t like the fans! …The stuff he has said about me, Max [Greenfield]—it’s disgusting!” (Fans of not just the show, but the ongoing prank war amongst its principals, will know that this is really just turnabout being fair play; Morris was saying almost the exact same thing about Johnson impeding a reunion back in 2024, claiming “Jake Johnson hates the fans, I guess.”)
New Girl went off the air back in 2018, having made it through seven seasons of will they’s, won’t they’s, and increasingly chaotic rounds of True American. The show’s cast (including Morris, Johnson, and Zooey Deschanel) briefly reunited back in 2020 for a video intended to promote voter turnout, and Deschanel and Greenfield had fun presenting awards at the Actor Awards last year (including also mocking Morris for being too busy to hang out with them). But there’s been no word of any actual formal revival project, from either them, or series creator Liz Meriwether. Which is all, apparently, Lamorne Morris’ fault.
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