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Rainn talks a little about his audition for Michael Scott (!), and how his scene with Jenna (hitting on Pam while telling her about his National Guard ex-girlfriend stationed in Kuwait City) might have gotten him the role of Dwight.
Listen to Rainn Wilson on Loveline. (Caution: NSFW)
Brian Baumgartner (“Kevin”) has a brand new blog over at TV Guide! And yes, this time he is blogging as Brian, and not Kevin. (He blogs as Kevin on MySpace.)
An excerpt from his inaugural post:
True story: while filming [the pilot], Angela, Oscar and I, at various times, thought we were going to get fired. For real. Like us, the actors. We thought art was going to imitate life and we were going to be downsized. We didn’t have any real reason for thinking this (or at least any reason that I am willing to blog about here), but we figured we were on the chopping block.
Brian also talks about The Secret and relays some good Hooters stories, but I think that’s because that episode was originally scheduled to air tonight, but isn’t anymore.
Go read the full post here!
“Three average guys” from Frisco, Texas, talk to Angela Kinsey about a variety of Office-related topics, including:
Listen to it here or download it from iTunes here. Nice job, guys!
IGN has a fantastically meaty interview with webisode writers Michael Schur and Paul Lieberstein (“Toby”).
An excerpt:
Schur says that they shot the webisodes “in two days, and it was basically like we focused on the accountants and whoever else wasn’t shooting in the episode that was being shot at the same time. We would pull them in and we would schedule their scenes around the larger shooting schedule. Basically, the idea was, like Paul said, to do 10 little vignettes and basically [have] one focus on the accountants — and then give one side-character the kind of like starring role for each individual episode, as a way to just sort of involve as many people as we could.”
Besides talking about the webisodes, the article also details The Office’s writing process in general, something I have always found fascinating.
There’s even a little plot point revealed about Season 3!
Read the full article here.
Thanks to OT reader DS for pointing me to this article!
From this morning’s headlines at contactmusic.com:
The British stars of the original The Office show are set to visit the US version of the hit comedy to shoot cameo roles. Ben Silverman, who executive produces the American version for NBC, claims employees of Slough, England paper company Wernham Hogg could find themselves sharing an office with Scranton, Pennsylvania company Dunder Mifflin.
Silverman tells the New York Post newspaper, “There’s a lot of love between (the casts and crews) of the two versions of the show.” “Expect some cameos from the UK paper company.” While Silverman refuses to name which stars will be appearing, he does say the show’s creator Ricky Gervais, who played cringeworthy boss David Brent in the UK version, won’t be on the US comedy anytime soon. He says, “We’re going to save the big man for now.”
Oh boy oh boy oh boy!
Read the New York Post article here. (Thanks, Roger!)
P.S. This article is no longer available.