'Girls5Eva' is back! Sarah Bareilles, Busy Philipps, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Paula Pell are all reuniting for the third season of the Emmy-nominated musical comedy about a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 90s reuniting to give their pop star dreams one more shot. The cast chatted with The Hollywood Reporter all about their epic return and 'Girls5Eva' getting a new life on Netflix.
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00:00 "Gonna be famous forever, 'cause forever's too short, too short."
00:07 Girls 5Eva is back! Sarah Bareilles, Busy Phillips, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Paula
00:13 Pell are all reuniting for the third season of the Emmy-nominated musical comedy about a one-hit
00:18 wonder girl group from the 90s reuniting to give their pop star dreams one more shot.
00:23 The series originally ran on Peacock for two seasons before being cancelled by the network
00:28 to much disappointment from fans. But luckily, the series was quickly picked up by Netflix and
00:33 given a season 3 renewal. The cast chatted with The Hollywood Reporter all about their epic return
00:38 and Girls 5Eva getting a new life on Netflix. "So excited! Hallelujah! Beyond thrilled,
00:46 beyond thrilled. I think even more so than the first season when we found out we had another
00:51 season. You know, it's like, because it really was not just, 'Oh, we're gonna do this again,
00:56 but we're doing it on Netflix.'" Season 3 picks up with the ladies prepping for a comeback tour
01:01 and grappling with life on the road. Along the way, they'll see relationships tested,
01:05 question if they really want the big time again, and cross paths with the biggest pop star on the
01:10 planet. "Remember these ladies? Girls 5Eva!" "Don't you know I'm Magisteller!" "We were on TV!"
01:17 "I love how these, like, 90s boy bands and girl groups have people still fangirling over them. Is
01:23 there any artist or group for each of you that you guys would or have fangirled over meeting?"
01:29 "Olivia Newton-John, I cried in the Coke closet. Yep, I turned around and saw her face and then
01:34 I burst into tears and ran into the Coke closet at a steak restaurant." "I used to work at SNL and
01:40 I cried watching Prince doing, like, a guitar solo and just being in the midst of that was just
01:46 so ungodly amazing." "I used to sing backup for a lot of different artists and once I was doing a
01:53 show that was doing a tribute to Luther Vandross and he and I was so I was with the background
01:58 singers and it used to always be my biggest dream if I didn't want to be a background singer but if
02:02 I did I wanted to be one for Luther Vandross and one of the girls that was singing backup with us
02:07 was one of his background singers so he came up to us and was talking to us and saying hello to
02:12 her and I was very, you know, professional the whole time and like getting my note whatever
02:16 and then he proceeded to go sit by the piano and sing a chair is still a chair and I like
02:24 super professionally got up from my seat and I walked up to around and back to the back corner
02:29 of the house and wept and cried pulled myself together and then walked back around and sat
02:34 behind him." Outside of reliving their biggest fangirl moments, the cast also discussed relating
02:40 to another big theme of the series, facing rejection while pursuing your dreams. "What's
02:45 your advice for people that are waiting for their chance but maybe keeps getting let down?" "Well,
02:51 she's certainly had enough letdowns in her career. No, I'm kidding. I just, you know, I feel like,
02:56 I, well, I feel many things. Like I do think that at this point in my life, in my career, I
03:02 am able to recognize that those things that don't work out whether it's in your life or career
03:10 are gifts. People have asked like, 'What was it like when you knew you made it?' And I'm like,
03:15 we all have the same reaction like, 'When is that? Do you know something we don't?' Because
03:21 we're still just in process, you know, all of us." And speaking of their gifts, the ladies couldn't
03:26 leave without giving us a little acapella session, gearing up fans who've been dying to hear from
03:31 their favorite girl group. "I wanted to know, is there any favorite Girls' Type of a song that you
03:36 guys love doing a little acapella to?" "Famous five-ever, 'cause forever's too short, too short.
03:45 Gonna be famous three-gev-er, 'cause that's one more than two-gev-er. Girls' Five-ever."
03:53 Girls' Five-ever is set to hit Netflix on March 14. For more on this story, head to THR.com.
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