Zooey Deschanel and Max Greenfield Roast Lamorne Morris at SAG Awards 2025
Keeping up with Lamorne Morris nowadays? Now not so clean—simply ask his new female co-stars. at the 2025 display Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, february 23, Zooey Deschanel and Max Greenfield took the degree collectively to present the award for excellent overall performance by an ensemble in a comedy collection.
Earlier than handing the trophy to the cast of handiest Murders in the constructing, the duo took a experience down reminiscence lane, recalling their time on the cherished Fox sitcom that made them family names.
"Man. Zooey, I have to say, this, this, that is wild. I cannot agree with this. You look terrific," Greenfield, forty-five, gushed, to which Deschanel—also forty-five—graciously responded, "Thank you. So do you. How long has it been?" "Gosh, I do not know. Let's examine. We wrapped New Female eight years in the past, and so the closing time we saw every other need to was, yeah, I guess, 8 years," Greenfield mused, reviews people.
As the two stuck up, Deschanel casually brought up their former co-megastar, Morris, forty-one, thinking if Greenfield had been in contact with him. Greenfield's reaction? A teasing jab at Morris' latest upward thrust to stardom.
"It's been tough due to the fact that, well, the Emmy," he said, alluding to Morris' 2024 Emmy win. Deschanel, usually brief on her toes, introduced with a grin, "Oh, I thought you were going to say men's health," referencing Morris' smoldering mag spread from last year.
Greenfield nodded, gambling alongside. "No, that too, however so glad for Lamorne," he introduced with an exaggeratedly sarcastic tone that had the audience chuckling.
New girl ran for seven seasons on Fox, from 2011 to 2018. Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, the series followed quirky schoolteacher Jessica 'Jess' Day as she adjusted to life in a loft with 3 eccentric male roommates. Along with Deschanel, Greenfield, and Morris, the ensemble cast covered Jake Johnson, Hannah Simone, and Damon Wayans Jr. in step with human beings, seeing that bidding farewell to New lady, its cast has long past directly to carve out surprising careers, but Morris has arguably had the most headline-worth upward thrust. In 2024, he snagged an Emmy for his paintings in Fargo, a moment that had his new female co-stars flooding social media with celebratory messages. That identical month, he portrayed comedy legend Garrett Morris inside the severely acclaimed saturday Night Live film, before turning up the heat in his much-talked-about men's fitness feature.
Of course, his newfound A-list fame hasn't long past left out with the aid of his new female family. Whilst Morris reunited with Johnson and Greenfield for People's Sexiest Man Alive issue in November, the pair couldn't withstand giving him a tough time about his Emmy win.
"LAMORNE is the reason we can't do a new girl reunion. He won't do it after his Emmy. He was given an Emmy clause. It truly is actual speech. He's going to spin it proper now, but that's real." Johnson, 46, joked.
Morris, never one to miss a beat, fired lower back, "I look at it like reparations, what I am due, what I'm announcing? hard paintings. What am I saying? Now, it's time to pay the piper."
Whilst a new lady reunion may be up in the air, one thing's for certain: Morris' rise to stardom has been as enjoyable as the display itself.
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