Zooey Deschanel is the thinking man's babe and the kind of girl that other girls want to be friends with. Her signature indie style and cool-girl persona have been lighting up the big screen for ages, but now she's taking it to the small screen for her new Fox series, "The New Girl."
"Well, I feel like it's like a kind of modern 'Mary Tyler Moore [Show]' [or] 'That Girl,' and it's stylized," she told Hollywood Crush at the Fox upfront earlier this week. "It's not a musical, but it has the vibrancy of a musical, and my character sings all the time, like out of nowhere. I think it definitely fills that. I feel like there's a new generation of girls that are taught to just be themselves, which is amazing. And this is the first [show] that I've come across on TV [that projects that]."
Strong female characters have certainly had their moments on TV ("Sex and the City," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), but Zooey noted that right now it really is all about the ladies.
"I think we're in a time right now where there was a tipping point [and] so many of the pilots that were picked up were female leads, female written," she dished. "Girls are kicking butt in comedy and [with] 'Bridesmaids' doing so well, I feel like this is a new frontier.
"I've been working since I was a teenager," she continued. "It's always been like girls have to play girlfriends and wives, and like you're always a little in the background and you're not supposed to be the funny one. I feel like it’s a really exciting time right now for women and comedy."
Do you agree that it's girls' time in the comedy spotlight? Will you be watching Zooey's new show?
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