Congratulations on an amazing season and an awesome finale. We have to say we were really unsure of whether or not you were going to have Nick and Jess end up together or actually have Cece get married throughout the entire finale! Was it like that for you guys while mapping out the season?
I think the whole season we were on pins and needles ourselves a little bit, as a staff, about where Nick and Jess are going to be going and where Cece and Shivrang were going to be going. I think as we got closer and closer to the end, we knew we were going to have [Nick and Jess] get together. And even up until the final moments, we didn't know if we wanted Cece to get married or not. We discussed what would it be like in season three if she's married. One thing we knew is we didn't want Schmidt to do the typical Graduate-style, interrupt-the-wedding thing, so we wanted to go a different direction there. And in a weird way, I think up until the very final moments when we were finally breaking that story, that was late because the network gave us additional episodes right in the middle of the last four, and we were like, "OK, so now we've got to zig this way and fix that issue, and make sure we have enough power to get through the end of the season." We were really excitedly looking at each other like, "How are we going to get out of this?! How do we want to end this and what feels right to us?"
You easily could have ended the season with Nick and Jess deciding not to be together or leaving their relationship as the big cliffhanger. Why did you decide to have them officially become a couple?
We felt that the energy at the end of the season should be them coming together. It felt more positive and more exciting and I think it opened up more story opportunity for us to say: Yes, this is happening, game on. Let's see where this goes from here. It could go in any direction. Who knows how long it lasts, who knows what happens over the summer break. We don't have any idea right now exactly how we want to make that play. We've explored a million possibilities and we're just loosely talking about it amongst ourselves, like, Oh, it could be this, it could be that, maybe they went to Mexico. We don't know yet at this point.
Nick almost sabotaged the relationship before it even began because of his doubts and insecurities. Will that still be in play in season three?
Absolutely. From the very beginning, what we've always said about all of these characters, and particularly the Nick and Jess relationship, is these people have to grow into their adult selves before they can have any relationships with each other, whether it's Cece and Schmidt or Nick and Jess. They all have to evolve to be the best people they're capable of being for there to be a chance. I think that now they are in a relationship with each other, I don't think that those problems or dilemmas change. I think that those are the dynamic of anybody being in a relationship, is that you're always confronted with big questions about that person that you have from the time you met them. I think that Nick is who he is; he's the person that's always going to get in his own way. There is a streak of self-sabotage in him that's always going to be a part of his character and it will be interesting to see how he and Jess deal with that—and Jess has things to learn, too, from Nick. The two of them can continue to grow and develop together as they try to be in a relationship, if that is in fact what ends up happening.
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I think the whole season we were on pins and needles ourselves a little bit, as a staff, about where Nick and Jess are going to be going and where Cece and Shivrang were going to be going. I think as we got closer and closer to the end, we knew we were going to have [Nick and Jess] get together. And even up until the final moments, we didn't know if we wanted Cece to get married or not. We discussed what would it be like in season three if she's married. One thing we knew is we didn't want Schmidt to do the typical Graduate-style, interrupt-the-wedding thing, so we wanted to go a different direction there. And in a weird way, I think up until the very final moments when we were finally breaking that story, that was late because the network gave us additional episodes right in the middle of the last four, and we were like, "OK, so now we've got to zig this way and fix that issue, and make sure we have enough power to get through the end of the season." We were really excitedly looking at each other like, "How are we going to get out of this?! How do we want to end this and what feels right to us?"
You easily could have ended the season with Nick and Jess deciding not to be together or leaving their relationship as the big cliffhanger. Why did you decide to have them officially become a couple?
We felt that the energy at the end of the season should be them coming together. It felt more positive and more exciting and I think it opened up more story opportunity for us to say: Yes, this is happening, game on. Let's see where this goes from here. It could go in any direction. Who knows how long it lasts, who knows what happens over the summer break. We don't have any idea right now exactly how we want to make that play. We've explored a million possibilities and we're just loosely talking about it amongst ourselves, like, Oh, it could be this, it could be that, maybe they went to Mexico. We don't know yet at this point.
Nick almost sabotaged the relationship before it even began because of his doubts and insecurities. Will that still be in play in season three?
Absolutely. From the very beginning, what we've always said about all of these characters, and particularly the Nick and Jess relationship, is these people have to grow into their adult selves before they can have any relationships with each other, whether it's Cece and Schmidt or Nick and Jess. They all have to evolve to be the best people they're capable of being for there to be a chance. I think that now they are in a relationship with each other, I don't think that those problems or dilemmas change. I think that those are the dynamic of anybody being in a relationship, is that you're always confronted with big questions about that person that you have from the time you met them. I think that Nick is who he is; he's the person that's always going to get in his own way. There is a streak of self-sabotage in him that's always going to be a part of his character and it will be interesting to see how he and Jess deal with that—and Jess has things to learn, too, from Nick. The two of them can continue to grow and develop together as they try to be in a relationship, if that is in fact what ends up happening.
Read more at E! Online
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