New Girl’s Max Greenfield Told Costar Lamorne Morris ‘It Doesn’t Get Better Than This’ Ahead of the Series Finale

“I remember Max Greenfield, right before we were gonna end, Max Greenfield pulls me to the side and he goes, ‘Regardless of whatever you’re going to go on and do after this show, it doesn’t get better than this.’ He was like, ‘This is rare. So don’t expect this, what we just went through for the last seven years. It’s not like that,’ ” Morris remembered. Greenfield, 45, played Schmidt.

“I’ve had some pretty cool casts, but he’s right,” the actor continued. “New Girl was one of those experiences. And the fans are so crazy in a good way that I’m like, ‘Man, I’ll talk about this show all day.’ I’m not one of those folks that really shies away from past work as long as I continue to work.”

Morris, who won an Emmy in September for his work on Fargo, and his New Girl costar Hannah Simone (who played Cece) host a New Girl rewatch podcast called The Mess Around. Morris told the Podcrushed hosts his bond with the New Girl cast and crew actually helps him be more critical when discussing the show, which ran from 2011 to 2018.

“There are moments where I talk about episodes that I hated, that I think they missed the mark on culturally,” he said, noting that sometimes the show could be “sexist” with Schmidt’s storylines. He called them the “normal ups and downs of a show” and compared them to “the ups and downs of a family.”

New Girl also starred Zooey Deschanel as Jessica, Jake Johnson as Nick and Damon Wayans Jr. as Coach.

Johnson, 46, told PEOPLE in 2018 when the series ended, “It was a great run. We also live in a world now where Will & Grace and Roseanne are on network TV and Star Wars is our biggest movie. Realistically, hopefully, in 10 years we’ll be doing more New Girl. I’m not thinking of this as the end of New Girl, I’m thinking of this as a pause for New Girl.”

“I’ll most likely jump back,” he continued. “I say that now, but I don’t know where I’ll be in five years. Potentially I’ll be living on some weird island, but if I’m still in the Hollywood industry and New Girl comes around, I would love to jump on it.”