About this episode

Zooey Deschanel discusses her iconic roles, music career, and personal life in this engaging interview.

All hail Zooey Deschanel! The indie-quirk queen! And yes we discuss her relationship to the word quirky! The actor will always be Jess from ‘New Girl’ and Summer from ‘500 Days of Summer’ and that adorable older sister stewardess in ‘Almost Famous,’ and we talk about all this — so many iconic roles — plus the lore of her blonde hair in ‘Elf.’ But the craziest thing that’s happened to Zooey in the past year? The TikTok-enabled resurgence of a She & Him song she wrote 25 years ago. In fact, it’s one of the first songs she ever wrote. So yes, we chat about “I Thought I Saw Your Face Today” too, new music, and their upcoming tour this Fall. We also discuss what it’s like renovating a house with her Property Brother fiancé Jonathan Scott, when her kids will watchher work, karaoke, that first kiss scene in ‘New Girl’ (there’s a lot of ‘New Girl’ in this interview: the rhythm of comedy, specific eps, being preg twice during shooting, and so much more), and how Zooey’s never laid eyes on drugs apart from weed. :) This episode is sponsored by AlexaPlus. Learn more at amazon.com/newalexa SUBSCRIBE to Our Podcast ►►https://tinyurl.com/48yfe4v5 SUBSCRIBE to YT…

People in this episode

Host: Zach Sang

Guest: Zooey Deschanel

Topics covered

• Zooey Deschanel
• New Girl
• music
• relationship
• renovation
• comedy
• tour

Keywords

• Zooey Deschanel
• New Girl
• Elf
• music
• Jonathan Scott
• She & Him
• I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
• comedy
• renovation

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: She & Him

Books & works: New Girl, Elf, 500 Days of Summer, Almost Famous, I Thought I Saw Your Face Today

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