was coming from this needy, great, insecure, wonderful place." He made it into this guy who was all of those (unflattering) things, but. It completely changed my idea of the character. Everybody else in to audition played the guy as a bad guy," she says. "What's amazing about Max is he manages to play this character as a good guy. The New York State native, a married father of a 3-year-old girl, stood out during his audition, bringing depth and vulnerability to what could have been just a shallow womanizer, show creator Liz Meriwether says. But, luckily, I dodged that just in time, I think." And then they become afraid of you and don't want to be the one who says yes. "You become a guy who gets very close to getting a show so many times that people start to wonder why are you not the one who's gotten the show.
I was quickly becoming a guy that tested for a lot of shows and didn't get them," he says over an egg dish during lunch at a favorite spot near his gym. "I was so excited to have gotten (the New Girl) pilot. He was looking for something longer lasting - and wound up with an Emmy nomination. It's all been quite a pleasant surprise for Greenfield, 32, who for years had been subsisting on guest shots or short arcs on shows such as Veronica Mars and Ugly Betty.
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That he has been, both by the show's other characters and the TV audience, as Schmidt has become a breakout character on the second-season Fox comedy (Tuesday, 9 ET/PT), which focuses on the lives of a young woman, Jess (Zooey Deschanel), and her three male roommates. "He's more like a sad little boy who's just looking to be accepted." It was just, 'Oh, he's not so much of a d- bag, as he was written' " in the pilot, the actor says, employing the show's oft-used descriptive parlance. Where some might have seen an egotistical jerk, Max Greenfield saw New Girl's Schmidt as an insecure guy. Watch Video: TV clip: Being Schmidt ('New Girl,' Fox)
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