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20 Secrets No One Knew About Emily and Zooey Deschanel
The saucer-eyed sisters were born and raised in L.A. by showbiz parents Caleb (the cinematographer for Passion of the Christ) and Mary Jo (Eileen Hayward on Twin Peaks). They named their youngest daughter after one of the protagonists of the J.D. Salinger novella Franny and Zooey. (…..)
When the Deschanel sisters aren’t charming television audiences, they follow their passions. Emily is a philanthropist and staunch animal rights activist. Zooey is a singer and musician performing as the “She” of She & Him, and with the jazz cabaret act, If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies. She also founded the feminist website, HelloGiggles. But those are just their resumes - what about their lives behind the scenes?
20 ZOOEY GOT SUED FOR HORSING AROUND (!!!!!)
In 2014, Patty Parker filed a suit claiming that after leasing her horse to Zooey Deschanel for $13,000, the horse was, “a shell of [his] former self… injured and unusable.” Deschanel denies that she is responsible for Literati’s ailments and insists that she, “fully complied with each and every provision set forth in the lease.” Furthermore, Zooey claims she returned the horse in good condition. If only they’d done a walk-around inspection like they do for rental cars!
A veterinarian testified on Deschanel’s behalf, saying it’s impossible to know what really caused Literati’s suspensory ligament injury. Moreover, Literati satisfactorily performed in a competition after the termination of Deschanel’s lease. As of January 2018, they had yet to settle the case.
19 GROWING UP, EMILY BULLIED ZOOEY
Even with tight siblings, you have to expect occasional torment. Emily Deschanel exhibited acting chops at a young age, when she convinced her little sister, Zooey, that “Neptunians had [taken] my real sister and replaced her with a facsimile who looked just like her, talked just like her, but when my parents weren't in the room, made crazy faces at me.”
Emily confessed on Conan, elaborating that it went beyond crazy faces. “I would tell her… that I'd [hurt] her sister and taken over her body, and that I was going to kill her next.”
She wasn’t just playing either. Zooey recalled, “she would make me cry and then she would laugh.” Eventually, Emily needed only to widen her eyes to make Zooey freak out. Emily added that they "get along now very well.”
18 ZOOEY WAS MISTAKEN FOR A CRIMINAL
With the power of closed-captioning comes the responsibility to get the names of suspected terrorists right. Typos can sometimes have serious consequences, such as when Dallas-Fort Worth’s Fox affiliate KDFW misidentified the Boston Marathon bomber as “19-year-old Zooey Deschanel.” Though the newscaster correctly read the real name of the suspect (Dzhokhar Tsarnaev), the closed-captioning told a different story.
Producer Peter Ogburn first caught the error and tweeted a photo of his TV screen commenting, “Oh come on, Fox!” By the time Zooey caught wind of it from Joel McHale’s feed, Ogburn’s post had been re-tweeted over 4,000 times. Deschanel good-naturedly wrote, “Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL!”
Caption Solutions immediately apologized, saying that the responsible party deeply regretted the mistake. CEO Kala J. Patterson said they “sincerely apologize for this error.”
17 ACTING WASN'T EMILY'S FIRST CHOICE
Despite Emily Deschanel’s early penchant for character work, she didn’t always dream of being an actress. She told BuddyTV, "I think [Zooey and I] both loved doing plays since we were really young. But I didn't think of it as doing it as a profession.”
What career did little Emily dream of? “I love architecture. I just love the combination between art and science.” Having observed her parents in show business, she didn’t hold any illusions about what it entailed. “I think a lot of times people go into the profession and think that it is about glamor…that it's easy, an easy job to do. That's it's easy to get jobs. I think we never thought any of those things.”
16 ZOOEY SUFFERS FROM ADHD
Some of Zooey Deschanel’s energetic personality might stem from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In a (now deleted) 2011 post on her HelloGiggles blog, Zooey confessed that though she loves crafts, her ADHD prevents her from completing anything too complex.
In “Crafternoon with Zooey D”, she wrote, “Are you an un-medicated adult with Attention Deficit Disorder who also LOVES to do crafts? I AM! I barely have the patience to write this opening paragraph (I have already gotten up four times), so I need to focus my unfocused mind on projects that can be completed very quickly. Am I going to knit a scarf? NO! Will I knit a scarf for a bunny? I don’t know. Maybe, if it’s a really small field bunny and I am knitting with giant knitting needles.”