According to Jake Johnson, he at all times knew Olivia Rodrigo‘s profession was a good thought, (proper?).
Speaking with Rolling Stone, the actor opened up about working with the Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter on New Girl, years previous to launching her music profession and an impending world, per Entertainment Weekly.
Rodrigo appeared in Season 6 of the Critics’ Choice award-winning FOX sitcom, per IMDb, as a scholar on the faculty the place Jessica Day (Zooey Deschanel) teaches, and who’s a fan of Nick Miller’s (Johnson) novel, The Pepperwood Chronicles.
“I keep in mind her and people ladies,” Johnson shared. “It was me, Zooey, and the ladies, they usually have been such candy children. And some child actors are simply good.”
He revealed an on-set joke between he and Deschanel through which they acted as “pretend managers” each time visitor stars arrived, and “would playfully compete over who’s gonna signal them.”
“And Zooey’s bit was at all times that she’s a candy supervisor who takes 10 p.c, and I’m a bit of little bit of an asshole who tries to take 25 p.c,” he defined. “And I keep in mind when Olivia Rodrigo and people ladies have been on, I used to be for positive attempting to scoop them up as a result of I used to be like, ‘There’s cash in these children!’ They have been simply good actors.”
Johnson, who’s now a father to ten-year previous twins Elizabeth and Olivia, then remembered watching Rodrigo star on the Disney Channel collection Bizaardvark, which aired from 2016-2019.
“I keep in mind being like, ‘I knew that fucking child was good!’” he exclaimed.
He even has “gotten actually into her albums” after “she actually blew up,” as soon as once more crediting his daughters for the publicity to her work.
“So I’ve heard ’em all, I used to be like, ‘What a blast!’” he informed the outlet.
Johnson additionally mentioned Taylor Swift‘s Season 2 look, noting that compared to Rodrigo, “she was already an entire factor” by the point she stepped foot on set.
“When [Swift] was within the hair and make-up trailer, we couldn’t imagine she was doing our present,” he gushed. “When she was on the set, the air modified. She was an air-changer.”
