WEBVTT - Angela Kinsey - Pt. 1 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.640 My name is Angela Kinsey and I played Angela Marton. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:21.200 Hello everybody out there in podcast land, Welcome back to 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:26.040 the Office deep Dive. I am your host Brian Baumgartner. Today, 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.520 as you just heard, you will be listening to my 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:34.920 conversation with Angela Kinsey. Now, let's get something straight. Kevin 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:40.159 made Angela Martin crazy back in the accountants Corner throughout 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.120 the entire run of the Office. But I am very 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:47.640 happy to report that Angela Kinsey and I actually became 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.559 very good friends on the set of the Office and 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:55.080 we are still great friends to this day, thankfully. Um, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:01:00.240 but we actually met many years before the Office. How Ever, 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.480 neither of us remembers it. Okay, So when Angela and 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.080 I were in college, Angela went to Baylor, I went 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.160 to s m U. Hail to the Red and the Blue. Um. 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.640 We had the same spring break and one year we 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:20.679 both separately went to Acapulco, Mexico. Random, I know, but 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.480 at some point during that trip we ended up in 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:30.000 the same cab, like the the same van cab with 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.120 a bunch of other people. And long story short, many 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.640 years later, back in our little corner, we figured out 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:43.399 that we met on that night in the cab in Acapulco, Mexico. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.640 Even though, like I said, neither of us have any 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:54.320 memory of it. Um. But luckily for your listening pleasure today, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.440 we do have a lot of great memories from our 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.960 ten years working together on the office. We truly were Angela, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.960 Oscar and I. We were the stars of our own 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.680 show over in the accountant's corner. Let me tell you 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.600 it was a great show. At least we thought it 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:19.040 was a great show. Anyway, Please welcome my bestie Angela, Kinzie, 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:27.880 Bubble and squeak. I love it. Bubble and squeak on 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.640 Bubble and squeaker, cookie, every moment left over from the 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:51.480 night before. Oh, I mean I tried you were coming. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.600 How are you? I'm good? How are you? How's your family? 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.799 I'm waiting for my Christmas car. Everybody's good. Ago, I 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.920 got it. I'm glad. It was so memorable. Hi guys, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.880 Oh my god, I'm so low, so low. I think 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:15.400 that's more about your height. Hey, Jenna was just in 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.919 that chair and had no issues. Well, she's taller than 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:22.680 I am. All right, I do this for a living. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:27.400 You know what is going on? This is a microphone, 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.360 you know, it occurs to me, we have you and 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.359 I do this all the time together all the time. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.960 Are we already recording? I think it's gold is going 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.600 to happen. We're always paired together to do like press 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:43.960 and always satellite tours. And because we're good together, Bud, Yes, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.840 we are, we are. How are you good? You look good? 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.840 You have like a snazzy sports jacket I'm wearing us. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.640 I dressed up for you. Thank you. I like the 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.880 mood lighting. I like what you've done with the room. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.440 Kind of got a sexy vibe. This is my first 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.200 day in this room, like we could be in a 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.840 lodge maybe like in Vegas, a Vegas lodge. Well, they 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.800 made it, they made it feel like home for me. Um. Well, 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.680 I'm happy to be here, Brian. I'm happy that you're here. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.440 It's fun to go back and talk about this. Really fun. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.400 I mean, Jenna and I are having so much fun. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.080 But I I know, we knew it was a great show, 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.479 that we were part of something special. But getting to 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.240 watch it again and I'm watching it now with like 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:33.360 no agenda. I hit the mic. You're a professional. I'm 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.360 not Agenda is the wrong word, but I'm watching it 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.400 now just as an audience, Like I'm not thinking about like, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.880 oh did I get my line right? Or you know, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:42.760 I'm just watching it as an audience and I'm just 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.080 loving it and I'm just like, ah, man, we got 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.719 to do that. Do you remember I'm going to go 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.680 out of order here, but do you remember when we 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:55.919 were almost fired? You mean you mean which time? The 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.120 time with kin Kopas, at the time when we made 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.640 Oscar tell a story really loud under the come one 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.760 where we had Oscar. Oscar gets really animated and he 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.400 gets worked up and he's kind of like a very 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.360 passionate storyteller. Yes, all right, So to set this up, 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.640 show is brand new. We get hired and we're out 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.520 in the parking lot and we're we're supporting casts. We 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.640 are not a big ticket item on the show. We 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:25.800 are easily replaceable. And Oscar starts telling the story very loudly, 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.240 very loudly, and we were This is when he kind 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:30.960 of blames me. We were sort of standing over in 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.920 the sun and I'm like, guys, let's go stand in 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.760 the shade, and I scooched us up against the wall 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.720 of the building, apparently right under a window where they 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.039 were filming, yes, and then Oscar continues the story and 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.240 he goes Kinsey almost coping fired because she's like, Oscar 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.880 over here, come down loudly under the window and we 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.320 got yelled at. Ken koppas himself leaned out the window 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.800 our director and said, hey, guys, could you can you 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.920 keep it down? We're trying to film here. We're like, oh, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.760 we're out of here. I have to say what I 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.440 learned really quickly that moment is the fight or flight 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.720 and all of us Oscar I don't know if he 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.240 meant to deer in headlights. He stepped out and looked up. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.159 My ass hugged the wall. I made myself so small 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.080 I touched into a shadow. I don't think Ken saw me. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.279 I think he just saw Oscar. You went flat up 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.120 against a dumpster. Who probably I was like, I can 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.000 like stepped out and was like okay, and then he 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:37.799 was like, um okay. Two thousand and three, Yes, before 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.159 anything related to the office happened. What were you doing, 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:47.280 oh man? Two thousand and three. I was working at 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.760 Improv Olympic Theater and I performed there anytime they give 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.880 me stage time, so usually about three nights a week. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.960 I did improv. Um. I was in a show with 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.240 Kate Flannery who ended up playing Meredith on the Office, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.320 and Kate Wall, Laura Kraft. Really hilarious people were on 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.359 this show. Rich Fulture was our only guy and the 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.200 name of the show was Girl Team Balls, Girl Team 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.200 Balls performing three nights a week. No, no, no, That 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:14.640 was one of the shows I was in. It was 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.840 like Sunday nights at like ten o'clock, which is like 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.200 really when you want to see comedy. And then I 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.200 had like a few other improv shows I was doing. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.480 I was all in it. It was like my life. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:29.640 I know, Brian's nodding at me like nerd, but so 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.440 you're doing improv Olympic and I'm working. I'm working at 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:37.800 the theater and I'm performing there and then auditioning, Yeah, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.920 auditioning like every little thing I could do. I had 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.400 a bunch of national commercials. Those were the days where 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.400 you could get a big national commercial and it would 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.520 like you would make a nice income, especially like I 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.560 just had a tiny, little one bedroom apartment. It's not 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.920 like any big checks. Um. I had a Chevy Blazer 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.640 that my parents had helped me buy out of college 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.720 that Chevy Blazer made it until about oh gosh, around 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.360 Booze Cruise. I was driving back from Long Beach and 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.600 I made a left and my right tire made right, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.920 rolled right through the intersection. Oh my god. Um, and 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.760 now did you know about the British Office? Of course, 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.800 I was a huge fan. You're a huge fan. I 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.040 thought it was amazing. But you know, I grew up 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.680 with a lot of British television because I grew up overseas, 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.120 and um, that was like I grew up on faulty 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.440 towers and good neighbors and all these that kind of 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.400 sense of humor really appealed to me. Okay, so you 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.840 get called to audition. Well, actually I knew Greg Daniels 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.360 at the time. I was related to Greg by marriage. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.320 You guys know that out there right. I've talked about it, um, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.160 And I mean, I just loved Greg. He was so 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.840 supportive of my career. He would come to my improv shows. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.960 I look back on it now, Brian, and I know 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.080 you you do too, because you have kids. They probably 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.120 had to get a babysitter coming to my show like I. 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.240 But when you're in your twenties, you don't think of that. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.199 You're like, I have an Amprov show at Tanna Clack 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.440 that Sunday. But now I think about it and I'm like, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.360 what like it takes to get out to get to 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.559 someone's whatever it is. So he was always so supportive, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.240 and he was going to be doing the remake, and 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.079 he said, you know, this is when you should come 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.439 in for you should this is kind of in your wheelhouse. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.160 And I was like, okay, and I was nervous. I 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.160 was nervous about what that looked like in the USA 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.240 because I loved the British version and I was like, oh, no, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.760 are they gonna But I knew if anyone could do 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.040 it would be Greg because he's he is just brilliant, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.800 he really is. And so you get the call and 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.319 you go, is there anything specifically you remember about the 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.840 day you went into audition. You were auditioning not for 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.240 Angela and I was auditioning for Pam. I remember it 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.960 very very well because before I went in, Greg said, Angela, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.640 that sounds kind of funny saying this. Um He's like, 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.320 I am not going to acknowledge you, okay, like we 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.840 don't know each other. He said, trust me on this. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.400 If they just think you're there just like anyone else. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.040 It's going to serve you better. He goes, I know 0:09:58.120 --> 0:09:59.880 you can do this. You know you can do it. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.160 I am not going to in any way let them 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.120 know that I know you and you don't do the same. 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.960 So I was like, Okay, got it, And you don't 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.480 mean my poker face is horrible. So you're walking in 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.040 and you're like, Hi stranger, Hi greg Um. But no. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.720 I walked in and there was a room full of 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.520 people as a producer session. He was in the back corner, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.440 and Um, I wore a like a pink turtleneck and 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.200 my hair sort of half up, half down. And I 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.280 had really worked hard on the scene. I felt really 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.560 good about it and it was going great. I was 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.400 reading with Phyllis and there's a moment when Michael fake 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.040 fires Pam in front of Ryan the Timp, and it's 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.440 such a jerk move right, and Pam calls him a jerk. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:42.920 She starts to cry and she calls him a jerk 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.680 because you kind of realized that as crappy as this 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:50.760 job is, she probably needs this job. And when Phyllis 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.520 as Michael fake fires me, I look up and I 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.240 called her a jerk, but I guess I was like jerk. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.560 Like everyone started laughing, and I remember in my mind 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.840 thinking like I don't think I'm supposed to have laugh 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.600 right there. So you got a laugh on the jersey, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.280 I got a laugh on the jerk line. But every 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.520 it was like everything was going great. I walked out there, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.520 Greg really like close to his chest, gave me like 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.120 where no one could see, like a big spile of 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.920 thumbs up, which you know, I was like on cloud nine, 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.880 and I felt great about it. I walked out there. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.360 I was like whoo, and then I didn't get it. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.320 Um and like that was that, and you know, you 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.040 go into your next audition. I had an audition for 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.640 a pilot for the Oxygen Channel. Do you remember the 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.880 Oxygen Network. I was a big star on I bet 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:38.920 you were, but I bet you crushed it over there. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.920 It was a pilot that was like, um, an improv pilot, 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.600 kind of like Curb your Enthusiasm before curb. And they 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.520 got these phenomenal improv actors and I had auditioned for 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.560 it and got it, and they were flying me to 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.079 New York and I thought I was so fancy getting 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.560 flown first class to New York. We filmed in the 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.080 village and I was like, Oh, this one's the one 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:03.120 going like this has happened, And I played the slutty receptionist, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.680 perfect perfect um. And then two months went by I 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.120 was waiting to hear about that, and I got a 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.760 call saying, you know that show the Office, they really 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.760 liked you. They just thought you were a little too 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.720 feisty for Pam and they were like this this woman 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.760 is like like, she works in accounting, and she's sort 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.240 of stuffy. She doesn't really have anything nice to say 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.360 about anybody. And then they said, when you come back in, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.560 just really downplay your looks, like, you know, this is 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:35.280 a very drab accountant and a paper company. Instagram, so 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.880 I read with Kim Koppas and it was like one 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.679 line and I'll never forget it because he said, um, well, Angela, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.240 you know how he talked, Well, Angela, Yeah, you made 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.520 a real meal out of that line. And I was like, wait, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.840 is that good? I don't know do I want to 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.320 make it me a lot of that line? But I 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.880 felt really good about it. It It was the scene that 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.560 you and I ultimately do. And and then I got 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.320 a call that I got it and I couldn't believe 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.360 it because it was like this thing that I had 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.400 let go. I was like, that's great. And then I 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:11.400 remember thinking like, well, what about Salon Royale. The pilot 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.600 I did for Oxygen It was called Salt Royal Clan Royal, 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.760 and um, it didn't go. Salon Royale did not go. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.400 So I went from the slotty receptionist to the prickly accountant. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:28.640 What now? What would have if Salon Royale had gone? 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.920 I think I would you would not have been on 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.120 the office. No, And I would have been a lead. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.040 I would have I would have thought, who I'm like 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:39.200 one of the leads of Salon Royale. Yeah, I know, 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.160 Well it all worked out. Oh my goodness. So you 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.839 did you know anybody else that had been cast? You 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.599 had worked with some people? Yes, I knew Oscar Nuniez. 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:54.319 We had done a sketch comedy show called Hot Towel. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.360 Sketch comedy shows. I'll have weird names because because you're 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.840 in your twenties and you think you're HILARI yes, hot 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.160 the hot towel they hand you like on a plane. 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.200 We were like this, let's be hot towel. Well, I 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.120 don't know because they had flown you first class that 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.800 experience and you were like, oh, let's call it hot towel. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.360 Oh it actually wasn't. That would be perfect, but it 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.520 actually wasn't my idea. Um, so I knew Oscar and 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.680 then um, Kate Flannery and I had done improv together, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.400 Dave Keckner. I knew all the improv circles you know. 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.200 Um do you remember having any reaction with Ben Silverman 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.400 or Koppus Coappus. I loved, like right away, he was 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.880 just amazing, And I'll never forget our scene when we 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.120 did the pilot. It was the last shot of the 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.240 day and we had had a long day and I 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.600 could tell Ken was done. He wanted to go home, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.720 and he has this two line scene and accounting he 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.120 sends everyone home but us. We're over there in the corner. 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.520 You and I have been waiting all day for this moment. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.680 And I said my line, you said yours and he goes, okay, Um, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.160 why do you First of all, Ken doesn't say action, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.200 you know, he goes go in and then you do 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.720 your scene and he's like, you know what, why don't 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.680 you do it again? But like give it half of that, 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.920 like give it half of that. So I say my 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.680 line was like, well, if someone's gonna be fired, I, yeah, 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.320 it's probably gonna be me. And he was like, YEA, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.000 give it half of that. And I'm like, do I 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.640 sound like some vaudeville commy? Am? I like, if someone's 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.040 going to be fired, I don't probably maybe, Like I 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.360 was like, give it half of that. So I was like, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.960 someone's gonna be fired, It'll probably be me. And he 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.560 was like and one more less. I'm like what? And 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.800 then and then I remember you and I so I did. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.200 I said it. I just like gave it nothing right. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.040 And then he was like, I think we got it. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.720 And then he left and I turned you and I 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.760 was like, are we going to be fired? And You're like, 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.160 I think we just I think we're fired. I think 0:15:52.200 --> 0:16:16.200 we suck. Oh my gosh. What do you remember that 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.320 was different about shooting the pilot for the Office than 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.320 anything else you'd worked on before. Is there anything different 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.000 that you remember? Well? Sure, I mean there were a 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.600 few things. First of all, like the tone, like just 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.360 the fact that can like made us get there early 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.880 and do work. We were to go to our desks 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.760 and do work like we were filing papers or typing 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.280 something and sit in silence, take a call if you 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.720 want to take a call. It was very method kind 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.160 of go there and work on your desk and he 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.240 just rolled b roll camera. And then also like we 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.040 had no marks, like the sort of um the idea 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.880 that you were on a TV show. It didn't feel 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:55.720 like that. It didn't feel like any other set I'd 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.640 been on. It almost was like I was on a 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.120 reality TV show and I had been miked untild to 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.000 go work in an office somewhere. Like the feeling of 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.840 the crew, all of that was just like it wasn't there. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.800 There were only like the crew felt very small, like 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.119 Skeleton Crew and all the other shows you're on. It 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:16.720 feels like a production, right, that's very interesting. The idea 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.480 that we didn't have marks, right then, In normal television 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.679 shows they mark where you're supposed to stand so the 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.280 camera can capture you perfectly in your scene and focus 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.760 walking up delivering your lines, and we didn't have that. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.560 This was a documentary, so the camera was expected to 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.320 find you wherever you happen to land. Yeah, they would 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.200 say walk up to reception and you're going to deliver 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.639 your lines at reception and you know, Angela you're going 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.479 to stand over by the copier and Brian you're going 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.920 to stand over by the coat rack. But they didn't 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.280 within three ft of that area. We could roam around 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.880 and do whatever we wanted. Right. Also, there was no 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.119 there was no missing wall, right we were in and 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.680 in fact the pilot we shot in an actual office space, right, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.479 and so the walls were not moving. Bowl. They had 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.480 to truly work in the space they were in, which 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.479 I thought was great because it is a documentary. They 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.520 can't fudge that. They have to. Like if the walls 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.760 there on other TV shows, they'd be like, well, fly 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.639 out the wall, move the wall, it's messing up my shot. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.479 But this you had to work around it. And I 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.040 think like the camera finding you and if it was 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:17.760 blurry or a little bit, if they missed you and 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.399 then had to find you, all of that was gold 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.520 for this type of show because they didn't want it 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:28.480 to feel like a polish, polished network television show. Yeah, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:33.560 how do you feel like choosing Scranton to set the 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.320 space and what do you think that did for us? Well? 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.320 I think it grounded it and made it like any town. Right, 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.240 it could be anywhere, so these things can happen anywhere 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:46.200 to anyone or just a normal town. I really liked that. 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.399 I also think that a lot of the shows skewed 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:55.000 towards big cities, and um, I like seeing the smaller towns. Yeah, 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.919 I think that also. I mean, you're right, but I 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:02.200 think also Greg taking it a step further and saying 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.880 we're going to create in any town by being as 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.840 absolutely true and specific as we can to this town, 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.080 right and it. It is one of the things that 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.919 doesn't make me sad. If if you were going to say, 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:17.919 what are some regrets about filming The Office, is that 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.200 we never got to film an episode there on location. 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.439 And they tried, they really tried, but it was a 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.080 lot of moving parts to move a whole cast and 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:28.880 crew and set up for a week. But we tried 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.119 to do the St. Patrick's Day, remember the parade, and 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.320 that would have been so cool. You know what's so 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.760 crazy is that Jenna said the same thing, and I 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.400 said the same thing. It's one of my biggest regrets 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.040 that we never went there as a production. Now we 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.520 all went there and it was I fell in love 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.000 with the place, so did you. I still think you 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.679 should have a bar there called Malons. You should have 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.439 a bar called Malons and Scranton. You and I were 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.879 the first ones to go. We were yes, and then 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.320 we came back and we're like, you guys, you all 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.680 have to go. It's amazing. That is one of my 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.399 favorite weekends of my life. And that is you guys, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.680 that includes becoming a mother. Like that's how much fun 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.359 this weekend was. It was just a blast. First of all, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.440 they sent a limo for us. We were in New 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.600 York City doing press and I got in at first. 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:18.000 They picked me up first, and they were going to 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.040 pick up you. You guys, this is before you texted people. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.280 This really dates us. But I had like a BlackBerry 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.399 and I was trying to tell Brian we were We 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.679 had arrived to pick him up, and I was like, 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.639 we're in a stretch limo that looks like a truck, 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:35.680 like an suv. It was, and they had it all 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.440 the stuff in there because we were gonna then drive 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.120 to Scranton. And I was like, Brian, what is happening? 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:45.120 Where are we going? Yeah? I that first time in Scranton. Actually, 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.919 you and I it was like we were the Beatles. Yeah, 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.720 we went up to a rooftop in Scranton because they said, oh, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:53.439 a few people from the city want to meet you. 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:55.359 Love some drinks. We went up there and they were 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.639 like four thousand people on the roof and it was 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.239 just me and you no, I know, yeah, And then 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.400 when we all went back, everyone was like, oh my god. 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:05.800 I remember ed. Helms turned to me. He wanted to 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.600 go into this train store and we had to go 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:09.600 out the back entrance because the store had been surrounded 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:11.760 by people, and he said, angel this might be the 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:16.240 closest will ever be to being a beatle um. I've 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.840 been talking to people a little bit about creating their characters. 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.040 Was there because your training was an improv Well, I 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.480 did theater like all through you know, high school and college. 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.640 I did theater, But my love and passion was improv 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.439 and comedy and sketch comedy, right, And so creating the 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.560 character of Angela, did you? Was there like a special 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:41.600 sauce that you had about creating her physically or well? 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.040 The way I dressed for my second audition. When I 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.760 came back in for what would end up being Angela, 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.080 they asked me if I could bring my own clothes 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.600 to the pilot. I wore my own clothes in the pilot, 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.520 So yeah, I guess my gray on gray that I 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:58.800 what I had in my closet ended up being a 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.320 color scheme for her. Um. I brought a photo of 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.879