Hardhat not recognizing functions in my contract as functions

[eik-1]

Version of Hardhat

2.18.1

What happened?

I am writing tests for my smart contracts.
I am using deployments.get() to get my deployed contracts.
fundMe = await deployments.get("FundMe", deployer)

Now if I use fundMe.fund() in the testing code, it will give me an error:

TypeError: fundMe.fund is not a function

While if I use fundMe.fund instead, it will work just fine.
So the main problem arises when I have to enter the parameters for a function which I can't without using ().

Minimal reproduction steps

Add hardhat-deploy,hardhat-deploy-ethers and hardhat using yarn.
Override hardhat-ethers using the command

yarn add --dev @nomicfoundation/hardhat-ethers@npm:hardhat-deploy-ethers ethers

Write unit test for contracts.
Use the functions inside the contract using () at the end of function name.

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[fvictorio]

Hey @eik-1, sorry but we'll need more detailed reproduction steps. Ideally a repository with a
minimal reproducible example that we can just clone and run some commands to reproduce the problem.