“We were doing night shoots in Altadena, and I was in another dimension because I hadn’t slept,” she told Obsessed: The Podcast. Meriwether was especially amazed at Prince’s rigor when it came to the story and script. Damon Wayans Jr. as Coach and Zooey Deschanel as Jess in "New Girl.” “I think, because we were shooting all night, it does still feel to me like, ‘Did I dream that? If we hadn’t filmed it, I would be like, ‘That’s something I made up in my head about my life.’”