Zooey Deschanel Says It Feels 'Narcissistic' to Watch Herself in 'Elf,' Even During Christmas

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00:00Do you have a favorite tradition that you really look forward to as well?

00:02I love singing Christmas carols. That's like my favorite thing. I love singing harmony and I have

00:07a lot of friends who are really good singers and so I do really enjoy singing as a group and I,

00:14you know, I love all the holiday food and my favorite part is like being with family,

00:19you know, just getting to connect and also I like watching like movies on Christmas and

00:26kind of being cozy and I love that. I love that. Do you watch Elf on Christmas every year? No.

00:35No, I don't watch myself in anything. I feel like that might be narcissistic of me.

00:40No, I watch like Meet Me in St. Louis is like a favorite of mine and yeah. Jonathan, I think,

00:48watched Elf every year before we met but I won't let, it's not that I won't let him but I'm not

00:54like, if someone has me on a TV, I'm probably running away. I totally, I get that. Have you

01:05watched it though? You have watched it, right? I watched it once at the premiere and it was

01:10really good. I just don't like watch myself. That's so funny. Does that go for everything

01:16that you've done? Like New Girl? I've watched New Girl because, while it was on, because,

01:23you know, when you're doing a show, you have the ability to go like, because you're shooting

01:29the show as the shows are coming, you know, as the episodes are coming out

01:33and so I would be like, oh, I can adjust my performance, you know, next week if it wasn't,

01:42you know, some, you know, if it wasn't coming off maybe how I liked it, then I was able to

01:47adjust my performance. So, I considered it part of my job for that but like with a,

01:52you know, and that was a network show. That was like, you know, another type of show. It wouldn't,

01:56I wouldn't be able to be doing that but with a movie, you shoot it and it comes out like

02:03a year or two later sometimes. Like, there's not necessarily any point in me watching it but.