He's A Huge Fan!' Prince To Guest Star In Zooey Deschanel's New Girl's Super Bowl Episode
The Purple Rain singer will be seen in an episode entitled 'Party Time', which will immediately follow FOX Sports' coverage of Super Bowl XLVIII. The episode will see Zooey's character Jess and her best friend Cece (Hannah Simone) invited to a mansion party thrown by Prince, with Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), Winston (Lamorne Morris) and Coach (guest star Damon Wayans, Jr.) crashing the festivities.
Prince has been a longtime fan of the award winning show, with executive producer Brett Baer telling E!: "He contacted us last season because he's a huge fan. He knows everything about the show. He contacted Zooey [Deschanel] and Hannah [Simone] directly and asked to do the show. We couldn't work it out last year. But when the Super Bowl thing was floated, it was perfect timing."
Executive producer Dave Finkel adds that Prince wanted to get involved with a particular long-running storyline during his episode: "He said, 'I want to be involved in the show in a real way and I want to help Nick and Jess with their relationship. He's a Nick and Jess shipper!"
"He's right in the middle of trying to help [Nick and Jess] work through some stuff and it's amazing," Baer reveals. "His thing was all about getting to Jess and trying to bring out this inner part of her that hadn't been brought to the forefront. The word hip tips was sort of the thing. He put it, I think I can give her some hip tips!"
Apparently the musician has a natural talent for comedy: "He's genuinely funny," Finkel reveals. "He's got a very quiet, wry sense of humour but he kills. There's a moment in the episode where he's sitting in between Zooey and Jake on a bench. And it's a silent beef and he's just looking between them trying to figure them out. And it's hilarious. He has crazy comic instincts."
"He knows that his value as a persona is doing as little as possible," Baer adds. "But those little possible moments he knows exactly how to play it and exactly how to give. You forget that he's done abunch of movies. He's directed a bunch of movies. He understands the medium. His whole thing was making sure that he was supporting Zooey and supporting Jake. It was incredible."
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