New Girl creator and cast talk three-year time jump -- and all the hubbub over a female-led show with a female showrunner

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Creator Liz Meriwether recalled the launch of New Girl when asked how her show would be different if it debuted in the #MeToo era. “I remember when we first premiered it was a year where there were a lot of shows with female showrunners  – and there were lots of stories written about the show,” she said. At the time, she said she wondered, “‘Wait, why is that a story, that I’m a woman and I’m running a show?’ Seven years later I don’t think that’s the story. That would be an odd story.” Zooey Deschanel recalls how she was asked if her character was too "feminine" -- “Can you be feminine and be a feminist?”