Television and films' Max Greenfield. Happy to have you. Thanks for joining us.
I couldn't be any more excited to be here. Thank you for having me.
It's really exciting to be a part of a movie like this because it's the fans...
...and the fans backed this movie with their own money. You feel that added pressure...
...to really show up and try and give them what they want and do the best job you can.
In working with me again, is it better than working with other people...
...or much better than working with other people?
You come in as a guest star, only doing a few, and you're like nervous, it's a new group...
...and you really hope that whomever you're working with...
...is just, like, ultimately, nice and welcoming.
And Kristen has never been anything but that.
It's much, much better, if not the best.
I don't wanna be rude to other people you work with, but I get it. I work with myself every day.
- No, fuck them. -You know what? Cheers to that.
Yeah. They're all lovely people, I'm sure.
By the time I heard about it, they were past a million dollars already.
My immediate thought was, "I hope I'm in that movie."
What have you been up to? Have you worked since Veronica Mars or...?
I went through a rough spell for a while. Nobody wanted to touch me.
They say, "Oh, everyone is gonna watch this TV show and go, 'There's Deputy Leo."'
- Right. -"And we don't want that.
We want a fresh start with our show."
Veronica Mars was probably one of my first big jobs, and it was my--
I think it was my first big job in television, where I actually had storylines...
...and more than one or two or three lines.
So then I grew my hair out a little bit, I gained a little bit of weight...
...and, sure enough, I landed in this television program, New Girl, on the Fox network.
- That sounds delicious. -Yeah, it's not bad.
And do you play the new girl?
My storyline existed in the first season and there was a pretty clear-cut ending to it...
...and they did not need to keep me around on that show.
And, for whatever reason, they kept calling me back.
I will, literally, never forget that and will appreciate that forever.
I had auditioned originally for the new girl.
They thought, "This is an interesting direction," because, again, though, I brought that high heat.
They were into me as an actor and they said, "Why don't you read this character of Schmidt."
I said, "I don't know that I'm right for it." I read the role, they gave it to me.
Now I'm on the show.
This is interesting because this is the first time I ever told this story.
It's a gift for you, Kickstarter.
I always loved the Veronica Mars fans so much because, like, I'll show up to New Girl events...
...and there's always a group of people that are screaming, "Deputy Leo."
- Team Veronica or Team Cece? - Whoa.
And you think, "Are they not watching...
...what I'm doing on the TV now, on the New Girl show?
Team Veronica, only because of loyalty.
But they're like, "No, we could care less about the idiot you play on that show.
You were so good as Deputy Leo."
And you think, "Man, these are real fans."