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" Melissa Fumero is still reeling from Brooklyn Nine-Nine&amp;#039;s big Golden Globes win last month. With accolades comes more scrutiny, and she knows that. The Fox comedy pulled in its best ratings so far in this week&amp;#039;s post-Super Bowl episode that had no less than Adam Sandler as a guest star. Fumero, who plays Andy Samberg&amp;#039;s partner Detective Amy Santiago on the series, caught us up on the Golden Globes night, growing up a Giants fan, and dealing with Samberg after his best actor win. ESQUIRE.COM: First off, congratulations on the Golden Globe for the show. MELISSA FUMERO: Thank you, I&amp;#039;m still processing it. ESQ: That was like a month ago, come on. MF: I know, I am really behind. I still look at pictures from that night on my phone. And am like, &amp;quot;Oh, yeah. That happened. Okay. That was real.&amp;quot; ESQ: You guys were underdogs. MF: Total underdogs. We did not expect that to happen at all. All of our conversations leading up to the Globes, we were like, &amp;quot;We can&amp;#039;t believe we are going. Maybe we will see so-and-so from our favorite show. What are you wearing? How are you wearing your hair?&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s all the conversation that we were having. Not one person on the cast was like, &amp;quot;Maybe we might win. This might happen.&amp;quot; Did not expect it all. When Andy won we were just like so shocked and so happy for him. The entire table was crying after he won. And then we heard them say &amp;quot;Brooklyn Nine-Nine,&amp;quot; we just all jumped up, and were totally stunned. You can kind of see it in our faces. I watched the telecast a couple days after. Joe is deep breathing on the stage. I am about to cry. All of us girls are clutching each other. Like, we were just so stunned. ESQ: Were you guys as drunk as everyone says people are at that point in the broadcast? MF: I don&amp;#039;t think so. Joe and I went to the bar at one point. And it was kind of a long line to get to the bar. So we each got two drinks. So I was going real classy-style back to the table in my gown double-fisting two drinks. I don&amp;#039;t think anyone at our table was too tipsy by the time our show got called. We were just all like talking and really watching the show and looking around. Like Terry Crews was freaking out because Bono was sitting pretty close to us, and he attempted to go up and introduce himself, but then would sit back down and would say, &amp;quot;No, no, no, I&amp;#039;ll do it later. I&amp;#039;ll do it later.&amp;quot; We were taking pictures. We were pretty well-behaved. ESQ: Is Samberg doing a lot of gloating on set now that he won best actor? MF: [Laughs] Yeah, he&amp;#039;s totally a diva now. He wears sunglasses up until the cameras are rolling. He&amp;#039;s like, Don&amp;#039;t look at me in the face. No, I&amp;#039;m just kidding. He was so stunned. One of my favorite moments that wasn&amp;#039;t caught on camera, after they said his name, I whipped around and looked right at him. And his eyes bugged out and jaw dropped and his face got kind of white. He was totally in shock. And then he kissed his wife and that&amp;#039;s when the camera cut to him. He didn&amp;#039;t prepare anything. He forgot to thank his parents. He just rolled up there. ESQ: Did you guys all party together afterward? You seem like a tight-knit group. MF: Yeah, we are. We really all dig each other genuinely. We all went to the Fox party right after. And they had a nice couch waiting for us. And all the girls plopped on the couch because our feet were killing us by then. They had these big TV screens and played it back. And we all saw it for the first time. And we were like, &amp;quot;Oh my God, that happened!&amp;quot; We kind of hung out all night. At one point we all tried to go to another party and lost each other. I had a 6 a.m. call time the next day. I went to work on like 3 hours of sleep and completely worked on adrenaline. Then crashed halfway through the day. Then I had one more scene but didn&amp;#039;t have any lines. Everyone was making fun of me because I was really hurting and struggling through it. It was sort of a rough, funny day for everyone. But we got the job done. ESQ: You can see it on the show, that you are all have having fun together. MF: We talk about it pretty frequently, the cast. Like, how lucky are we? That we all really enjoy each other and like each other. And I think it does make the work better because we have so much fun doing the show and working together and experimenting and improving. Just last week we were shooting an episode. We were doing some stunts. So there was a little bit of downtime. The whole cast was sitting in our chairs and we all ended up moving chairs as we were talking. And all the chairs ended up in a circle. I sort of had this moment where I was like, &amp;quot;How fricking cool is this?&amp;quot; ESQ: Except Samberg, who&amp;#039;s just too cool. MF: It&amp;#039;s true. He was getting a mani-pedi the whole time. His chair was just slightly turned out. Like he was still inside the conversation. ESQ: Between him and Joe Lo Truglio \u2014 MF: When I saw Joe Lo Truglio got cast in the show I flipped out. I didn&amp;#039;t tell him that until we were done shooting the pilot, because I wanted to play it cool. And then we were done with the pilot and I was like, &amp;quot;By the way, I am a huge fan. I am so excited you are on the show. This is amazing. You are really cool.&amp;quot; Sent him this totally dorky text. ESQ: We talked to Stephanie Beatriz when the show premiered. She talked about living in Brooklyn before she even got the job. Have you spent much time in New York as well or are you strictly LA? MF: No, I&amp;#039;m an East Coast girl. I grew up in New Jersey right outside of the city. I moved there when I was going to college. My parents&amp;#039; house is right by MetLife Stadium. ESQ: Are you a Jets or Giants fan? MF: I don&amp;#039;t really follow football. But by association of friends I would say Giants. Yeah, I&amp;#039;m a Giants a fan. Which, the Giants won the Super Bowl when I first got to LA. And I got my first car that day the Giants won the Super Bowl. I was like, this is a good sign. Things are going to go well here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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