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Speaker 1: I'm John Krasinski and I played Jim Helbert on The Office.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by today. You know what
Speaker 1: today feels like, Well, it feels like the perfect day
Speaker 1: for a new episode of The Office Deep Dive. Do
Speaker 1: you see what I did? I am your host Brian
Speaker 1: baum Gartner, and I am beyond excited, giddy in fact,
Speaker 1: to bring back my main man, John Krasinski for the
Speaker 1: second half of our conversation today, and boy, are you
Speaker 1: in for a treat because this time we go deep. Okay,
Speaker 1: we always go deep, but seriously, I made him blush.
Speaker 1: I made him cry. Well, he didn't quite cry, but
Speaker 1: he did go into details of the way he cries,
Speaker 1: which is all in like everything else he does. I
Speaker 1: even got to well, or I was forced to hear
Speaker 1: his sexy voice in my brain, and if I'm honest,
Speaker 1: I would be okay never hearing that again. But maybe
Speaker 1: you'll feel differently now. If you've been listening to this
Speaker 1: podcast since the very beginning, you've heard me talk about
Speaker 1: how The Office is a family a few times. Well,
Speaker 1: John really gets into why that's the case, and why
Speaker 1: The Office is not just a family for the cast
Speaker 1: and crew who were there, but for you too, Yes, you,
Speaker 1: the person listening to this right now. So few shows
Speaker 1: have been able to cross that threshold where it really
Speaker 1: feels like you know the characters that you're watching on screen.
Speaker 1: And not to toute our own horns, but I really
Speaker 1: think with this show we achieved that. And that's why,
Speaker 1: no matter how many movies he directs, or how successful
Speaker 1: he becomes, how many billboards he is on, John Krasinski
Speaker 1: will always be Jim Halpert, Everyone's favorite goofy haired prankster.
Speaker 1: So please join me in welcoming back my old friend
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Speaker 1: Lift over from the nubby people. The Office was constructed
Speaker 1: in the opposite way than most comedies, or certainly television comedies,
Speaker 1: where typically the leads are the young lovers and then
Speaker 1: you've got a crazy uncle or the crazy boss that
Speaker 1: that is back in the corner coming. No. Um, this
Speaker 1: show was the reverse, which which is which? Which was
Speaker 1: putting and specifically the moments and examining like why Jim
Speaker 1: and Pam, Like why that relationship became so important to
Speaker 1: people and so charged was People weren't watching a half
Speaker 1: hour of it. They were just stealing a moment from
Speaker 1: the corner, which makes you like, I want to lean forward.
Speaker 1: And the other thing was, there's an idea that when
Speaker 1: you generalize, it becomes more universal, right, like this is
Speaker 1: generally who this guy is from this midwestern town. But
Speaker 1: the amount of specificity and reality both in those moments
Speaker 1: between Jim and Dwight and Jim and Pam, the opposite
Speaker 1: is true that the more specific you get that the
Speaker 1: characters become infinitely more real and therefore universal and relatable.
Speaker 1: To me, that idea is is interesting. No, I think
Speaker 1: it's I think it's really true, and I think that's
Speaker 1: sort of the magic trick of the show is, and
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know the picks of why it's
Speaker 1: so huge now. I mean, it's mind blowing to me.
Speaker 1: A four year old came up to me at the
Speaker 1: airport and was like, it's my favorite show and I
Speaker 1: was like, do you get any of it? And they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like it totally universal, like you said. But I also
Speaker 1: think that the stakes were set up so wonderfully because
Speaker 1: that's real life, right. I think when you're in love
Speaker 1: with someone, especially someone at work, you very much look
Speaker 1: forward to those interactions at work. But that means that
Speaker 1: when you go home, in your home life with your
Speaker 1: friends or whatever else you're doing, you will not see
Speaker 1: that person. So you are sort of, I don't know,
Speaker 1: tantalized by the idea that like, when I get that moment,
Speaker 1: I'll savor it. And I think that's real life, and
Speaker 1: that's what we did in the show. I particularly, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking right now about the relationship with Roy, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like a it's like lighting a
Speaker 1: fuse that might blow six weeks from now, but it
Speaker 1: was a very specific fuse. Right. So the first time
Speaker 1: you saw me and David together, people were like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: so you just told me that this is a potentially
Speaker 1: explosive thing, and then we didn't go into it. You'd
Speaker 1: reference him a couple of times, and it was very
Speaker 1: specific references, and she said that he brought me to
Speaker 1: the game and left me at the arena, like things
Speaker 1: like that, where you're just slowly leading the breadcrumbs back
Speaker 1: to the trigger, and then by the time he comes
Speaker 1: in and pushes me, you're so invested in that. Not
Speaker 1: in a television way, I think in like a like
Speaker 1: these people are my friends, oh right, my friend as
Speaker 1: much as I love them together, is trying to go
Speaker 1: after a girl who's taken. That's real life steaks rather
Speaker 1: than TV steaks. And I think that's what made it
Speaker 1: like the first time that we accidentally kissed at Dundees
Speaker 1: and like that's real life, whereas a regular television show
Speaker 1: would have a big, huge kiss scene like they finally
Speaker 1: got together, and it was I remember reading that script
Speaker 1: and being like, man, that is so smart that have
Speaker 1: the audience be like did they just this? And it's
Speaker 1: and not give them what they thought they want. It
Speaker 1: was so because that's how I felt. I felt like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I thought we were gonna do some
Speaker 1: huge kissing and instead she just did it at Dundeees
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god. And of course I
Speaker 1: would have stewed on that for months and been like
Speaker 1: was that did that count? Was she just drunk? Rather
Speaker 1: than if it was a big kiss scene where I
Speaker 1: took her out back and like, you know, made some
Speaker 1: huge overture, you'd be like, oh good, I'm being entertained
Speaker 1: by this moment. But I don't feel anything. I'm not connected.
Speaker 1: I don't know if any of that made sense. No,
Speaker 1: that's so smart. I think I um. I think people
Speaker 1: see themselves in the show, and it's a combination I
Speaker 1: would imagine of every character. You know. I don't think
Speaker 1: you look at one character and you go like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm Michael. I hope you're not my go. But it's
Speaker 1: more like, oh, man, I have a co worker that
Speaker 1: loves cats, and I have a co worker that drives
Speaker 1: me insane. I don't know. Maybe that's it. And certainly
Speaker 1: people bosses that are crazy. Right, Yeah, it's what you
Speaker 1: were talking about. I think is so true. I had
Speaker 1: a conversation with Greg where traditional sitcoms there's a rhythm,
Speaker 1: there's a rhythm to the joke. It's it's it's totally
Speaker 1: on the beat. And I think that in the relationship
Speaker 1: between Jim and Pam, everything happened off of the beat,
Speaker 1: not at the time you expected right from way early,
Speaker 1: like right like in terms of like the progression. But
Speaker 1: then also what Greg talked about a little bit was
Speaker 1: once it got to a certain point that he was like, well,
Speaker 1: we need to get them together, Like, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to create artificial impediments that make everybody go like come on,
Speaker 1: because I think he had brought this audience in to
Speaker 1: a very seemingly realistic relationship. So if you started doing
Speaker 1: weird things that felt fake and people wouldn't relate to
Speaker 1: it anymore. I'm saying, like, I love I can admit
Speaker 1: on this podcast. I was never like a casting No,
Speaker 1: I wasn't really great with dating, and I feel and
Speaker 1: I think that's what's so great about the show is
Speaker 1: how do you go about that? Like, how do you
Speaker 1: start a relationship with someone who's already with someone. It's
Speaker 1: a great place to start, and then just you know, slowly,
Speaker 1: you know. I remember also how bold it was that
Speaker 1: when you thought you would do something, you know, like
Speaker 1: proposed to her. He would write an entire episode where
Speaker 1: you're like, oh man, and at the end, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be the proposal because again in TV, you know
Speaker 1: that like the big scenes are coming, and he wouldn't
Speaker 1: do it. And then when I did propose, I love
Speaker 1: that talking head where I was like, I've been planning
Speaker 1: on this forever, Like I love that, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: I've said to people that nothing shut down production like
Speaker 1: an important in pay A moment, like when there were
Speaker 1: moments between two down. No, I mean like shut it
Speaker 1: down right right, like like like you're blushing right now.
Speaker 1: But it's I mean like Casino Night and not and
Speaker 1: not just one, two different moments in Casino Night because
Speaker 1: the relationship was so important to the two of you
Speaker 1: and getting it right totally. I remember those two moments
Speaker 1: very well. I remember the parking lot. Yeah, it's funny
Speaker 1: now that you say that. Yeah, which must have been
Speaker 1: frustrating for you. Oh you'd be like, oh, please just
Speaker 1: get me out of here before they filmed this, or
Speaker 1: it's going to be seven hours. Yeah, well we were
Speaker 1: in there that seven hours. But again I had never
Speaker 1: experienced anything else, so that was weird for me. Was
Speaker 1: I remember, like there was an energy around those moments
Speaker 1: I remember. I remember so many different things, but I
Speaker 1: remember that parking lot scene. I remember not knowing where
Speaker 1: Matt was, yes, and Ken wouldn't tell me, and he
Speaker 1: was like, don't worry about it, just do the scene
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, and I thought that was cool.
Speaker 1: And then certainly I remember the like the big moment,
Speaker 1: the big kiss that was shut down, like that was
Speaker 1: nobody was on set, nobody was around the craft service table.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know that was happening. So I walked on,
Speaker 1: you know, ready to joke with folks, and they were
Speaker 1: like not wanting to make eye contact with me, and
Speaker 1: I was like, what happened? I feel like I said
Speaker 1: something to you, like I was going on. I know.
Speaker 1: I kind of remember that too. And then it made
Speaker 1: me more nervous because then they were like, all right, now,
Speaker 1: maybe you should go out the door and whenever you're ready,
Speaker 1: come in. And I was like, what's happening is no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call action and they're like, no, man, well
Speaker 1: do you remember that night. I remember that night. I
Speaker 1: remember because you were so frustrated you were still there. No,
Speaker 1: I just I remember it being so big. I think
Speaker 1: the thing that I am most proud of artistically, he
Speaker 1: is not blowing your top in that moment in the
Speaker 1: Shock and the Show was every say goal shot where
Speaker 1: the camera was positioned, just the discussion about are the
Speaker 1: cameras in the room? Are the characters aware the cameras
Speaker 1: in the room? Right? How does that change behavior based
Speaker 1: on the fact that the cameras are in the room
Speaker 1: or if they think that they're alone. And I think
Speaker 1: that at that moment, specifically at the end of Casino
Speaker 1: Night you see the slats in the blinds and then
Speaker 1: shooting and catching you guys, that there are such an intimacy,
Speaker 1: you know. It's like Randall and Matt were to my
Speaker 1: favorite people on Earth and I couldn't see them and like,
Speaker 1: I don't even think I got to see the set
Speaker 1: before I went up, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: it was also weird, and I'm sure for a better
Speaker 1: actor you'd think like, oh, that's what you need, right,
Speaker 1: And so I was like, I am a terrible actor
Speaker 1: because I don't know, I'm nervous, and maybe that was
Speaker 1: the intention, but I was like, I don't even know. Remember,
Speaker 1: Randall wasn't anywhere, and usually I was like, what are
Speaker 1: we doing, like what what? What? What? How? Where do
Speaker 1: you want me to be whenever? And it was really weird.
Speaker 1: I was so freaked out. And I remember I was
Speaker 1: on set for a while before Jenna got on too,
Speaker 1: because Jenna was taking her moment, which is fine, but
Speaker 1: again I was so not knowing of that world that
Speaker 1: I didn't know that I could take thirty minutes in
Speaker 1: my trailer to prepare. Mentally, I was like, mentally, what's happened?
Speaker 1: And then I got so much more scared, and I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, then you start to think like,
Speaker 1: oh god, I didn't do my homework and she's doing
Speaker 1: your homework. Right. Were you on board with the trajectory
Speaker 1: of Jim and Pam's relationship, like just in terms of
Speaker 1: the timing, did you have concerns about it happening to soon? No,
Speaker 1: it sounds like a hallmark version of Greg, But I
Speaker 1: truly and Greg I trusted. I could tell that he
Speaker 1: had to beat on it. He was always so nice
Speaker 1: to involve Jenna, and I remember that he would tell
Speaker 1: you kind of when things were going to happen, and
Speaker 1: he would remind you in scenes you know, don't worry,
Speaker 1: this isn't the moment that's going to lead to this
Speaker 1: that will happen later, like he he had it all
Speaker 1: tracked out. Also, we were what in season five or
Speaker 1: six by the time him that I was in that
Speaker 1: motel with that other girl and stuff like that, And
Speaker 1: that's the only time I remember putting whatever, put my
Speaker 1: foot down, not really, but I remember I got that
Speaker 1: was the only time I was very much against because
Speaker 1: he was saying, you're going to actually make out with
Speaker 1: her in this scene, and that was the episode I directed. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right, but the bed bucks and I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It might have been an earlier version about you guys
Speaker 1: making out, but I remember that was the only time
Speaker 1: we had like a it was like a bad negative moment.
Speaker 1: But I remember being in a room and it was
Speaker 1: like I remember finding myself kind of saying things that
Speaker 1: I never thought i'd say before, like I'm not going
Speaker 1: to shoot it. Remember Paul Lieberstein was in the room.
Speaker 1: He was like, no, you you will do it in
Speaker 1: an aggressive way, but it was like he saw the
Speaker 1: benefit of doing it. And I remember saying to Greg,
Speaker 1: there's a threshold with which you can push our audience.
Speaker 1: They are so dedicated. We have shown such great respect
Speaker 1: to them. There's a level of messing with them that
Speaker 1: you've done, like in a great way. I mean like
Speaker 1: you've messed with them by the whole kiss happening too early.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a moment where if you push
Speaker 1: them too far, they'll never come back. And I think
Speaker 1: that if you show Jim to be cheating, they'll never
Speaker 1: come back. Yeah, and I what did you think? That's right?
Speaker 1: You directed? What what was your feeling? Well, my recollection, well,
Speaker 1: it was never that you were going to make out,
Speaker 1: but it was about there was what was the line?
Speaker 1: How far can we go? I was supposed to kiss
Speaker 1: her in that bathroom? I remember that's what they were pitching,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know that that's going
Speaker 1: to go well for us. Yeah, but even just you
Speaker 1: being in a room with her, you know, how would
Speaker 1: you behave even if you didn't think the cameras were there,
Speaker 1: because the cameras were shooting from outside and they weren't
Speaker 1: in the room except when Dwight came in. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the whole point is the passion for which you fought,
Speaker 1: and Jenna fought and Greg like that. Everybody was collaboratively. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's it wasn't a negative fight. It was a big
Speaker 1: conversation because again it was so important to everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but also I had trusted Greg up to that point,
Speaker 1: and it was really hard for me to say, I
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with us. When you found out that
Speaker 1: Steve was leaving, Oh yeah, what did you think was
Speaker 1: the greater loss? Michael or Steve? Jesus, It's like a
Speaker 1: existential crack right there in the Yeah, my brain literally
Speaker 1: just melted. Oh my god. I mean, it's weird, right.
Speaker 1: I think there might be one of those esoteric, kind
Speaker 1: of actory bogus things that happened, which is we kind
Speaker 1: of started blending ourselves and our characters because we spent
Speaker 1: so much time together, and Steve and I had a
Speaker 1: really wonderful relationship. We started because we were both from
Speaker 1: Boston and we really had a great friendship. And even
Speaker 1: though we didn't hang out all that much, I felt
Speaker 1: very deeply connected to him and he was always so nice.
Speaker 1: So I think that I think I have to be
Speaker 1: honest and say it was losing Steve because as much
Speaker 1: as he was so good on the show, his presence
Speaker 1: on the set was fantastic. I mean he was he
Speaker 1: was as professional as it gets. He was your clean
Speaker 1: up hitter, just crushed everything that he was thrown. And
Speaker 1: so I think I'm I think what I'm getting at is,
Speaker 1: in that moment, it felt like the end of an era.
Speaker 1: It felt like the end of something more than even
Speaker 1: losing Steve or losing Michael. It felt like the end
Speaker 1: of our show in a way, or that evolution of
Speaker 1: our show. It's like when you graduate college. Your life
Speaker 1: isn't over, but that version of your life will never
Speaker 1: come back. You'll never have your college years again or
Speaker 1: your high school years again. Um, that's what it felt like.
Speaker 1: I felt like we were graduating college that day. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out in real time. Why I
Speaker 1: cried so hard when we did that scene. I also
Speaker 1: remember him crying, and I was not expecting that. I
Speaker 1: thought that he was so good at comedy that he
Speaker 1: was able to be like, it's just a scene and
Speaker 1: then will cry after or not or whatever. And the
Speaker 1: energy in that room was so thick and palpable that
Speaker 1: when they called action or go ahead, I remember Steve
Speaker 1: tiered up right away, and that was so unlike him.
Speaker 1: Not that he was emotionless, but it was like it
Speaker 1: was so unlike him to let real life bleed into
Speaker 1: the moment, right. I think, I think, I actually remember.
Speaker 1: The actual number was seventeen takes of not even speaking,
Speaker 1: just just dribbling crying. For me, it's I mean, you
Speaker 1: talked about it, you were waiting tables. I was doing
Speaker 1: theater for you know, some class sometimes seventeen people you
Speaker 1: know or whatever, Like everybody, we all grew up together
Speaker 1: and there was like Greg as like our on set dad,
Speaker 1: but like Steve as like the greatest brother you could have. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like the steady brother, you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: like John Steinbecker, Arthur Miller, like there was always like
Speaker 1: a steady brother and we were all the crazy people
Speaker 1: and he was always really steady. Yeah no, But I
Speaker 1: mean I was twenty three years old when we started
Speaker 1: shooting season one, and I look back and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I basically graduated college, had two and a half years,
Speaker 1: Like I was shot out of a literal canon, because
Speaker 1: my my life wasn't real life. I was living in
Speaker 1: a fantasy camp because every day I was going to
Speaker 1: work on something I loved and something that was edgy
Speaker 1: and fun, and I would have watched it anyway. But
Speaker 1: like you said, we were also intermingling in a way
Speaker 1: that was such perfection. I've never been on a job
Speaker 1: since where every single human being, from crew member to
Speaker 1: you know, actor was so in tune and such a family.
Speaker 1: I always felt bad for the guests. Actress. Did you
Speaker 1: feel that? And you had to pop in for one episode? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: I thought that must be awful because here I am
Speaker 1: being like, right, who are you picking up in the
Speaker 1: second round of fantasy and like they're like, no, this
Speaker 1: is a big show, and I'm like, it's not. It's fine.
Speaker 1: I mean some of your m and m's are like
Speaker 1: just goofing off and and like throwing things at each
Speaker 1: other in the middle of scenes, and people were probably like, dude,
Speaker 1: this is my big break. We were trying to throw
Speaker 1: stuff at each other when the camera, when the camera
Speaker 1: wasn't on us. We were throwing a football in the
Speaker 1: middle and I remember there were a couple of people
Speaker 1: who were like, did not like the football throw? Yeah,
Speaker 1: stop you jackasses, And I was like, what's the deal?
Speaker 1: And yeah, like Amy Adams, I thought did the best
Speaker 1: job of it. She came in and somehow felt like
Speaker 1: she was always on the show. Remember she wasn't the
Speaker 1: original purse girl did kill someone else. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden Amy showed up and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's been a recast. And she was not nervous, not scared,
Speaker 1: came in and was like yeah, I'm I'm not taking
Speaker 1: this too seriously either. I'm just super good at my job,
Speaker 1: and then crushed. It was one of the best storylines
Speaker 1: we've ever had. I love that storyline because I loved
Speaker 1: how she ended her character where she was understanding of
Speaker 1: how much I loved Pam and you're like that was
Speaker 1: also Rob Wriggle, Right, that was Riggles Boosts Riggle god,
Speaker 1: one of the funniest human beings I've ever met in
Speaker 1: my life. Do you remember anything about that? Speaking of
Speaker 1: boost Cruise, the twenty seven seconds of silence, that was
Speaker 1: a big deal for the fans. I remember was there
Speaker 1: a discussion when you were shooting? I remember I felt
Speaker 1: it was a big deal when someone gave me the
Speaker 1: number of twenty seven seconds, because if someone counted it
Speaker 1: surely wasn't us, and so it had aired and someone
Speaker 1: timed it, which meant that it was a big enough
Speaker 1: deal to time it rather than remember how silent they were.
Speaker 1: I remember that. I also remember, do you remember we
Speaker 1: had shot to like the wee hours and the sun
Speaker 1: was cracking and we drove back on a boat and
Speaker 1: it it conked out. It conked out, and we were
Speaker 1: in pitch black water, like terrifying, scary, shark infested, shark
Speaker 1: infested water, and we were just kind of crapped out
Speaker 1: on a tiny boat and we were all exhausted and
Speaker 1: the other boat got there just in time. They had
Speaker 1: left and we were like, this is gonna be a while.
Speaker 1: Remember that was terrifying. Yeah, I remember Phillis was on
Speaker 1: our boat. It was you, Phillis. It wasn't coopas he
Speaker 1: got off on the good One. Was it Angela? I
Speaker 1: think Angela was there anyway? Was that season two? Well?
Speaker 1: And that was the episode. As we're filming, you know,
Speaker 1: seven pm to seven am. I wake up from like
Speaker 1: sleeping all during the day and have like seventy four
Speaker 1: messages from my agents saying the office wants to make
Speaker 1: you a serious regular. Where are you? I remember that.
Speaker 1: I remember being in the parking lot before we went
Speaker 1: to the boat, and you were very nice to say,
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about this and get
Speaker 1: your take on it. And we talked a lot about it.
Speaker 1: You took none of my advice, No, none of them. Um,
Speaker 1: did you think the show could go forward? When Steve left?
Speaker 1: I knew the show could go forward. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what the plan was. I couldn't see through the trees, um.
Speaker 1: But again that's where I really trusted Greg. I remember
Speaker 1: when they came to us for season nine. I had
Speaker 1: a very honest conversation with Greg. He called me about
Speaker 1: season nine and said, what do you think? And I said,
Speaker 1: you have to end the show. I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to negotiate because we none of us had contracts.
Speaker 1: Since I was like, this isn't about a negotiation. You
Speaker 1: have to end the show before they end it for us,
Speaker 1: because I was like, it's coming to an end regardless.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be the one that like. And
Speaker 1: he by the way, it wasn't. I wasn't telling him anything.
Speaker 1: He didn't know. I just felt with the landscape of
Speaker 1: what other shows were on and whatever that like. And
Speaker 1: again keep in mind we were not even as popular
Speaker 1: then as we are now. It's like I remember that
Speaker 1: feeling of like we don't want to be taken out
Speaker 1: back right, I think I'll go up behind the shed.
Speaker 1: I don't want to avoid the woods. Yet. For sure,
Speaker 1: that is a lesson you everyone should abide by. Um,
Speaker 1: what did you think did you want to did you
Speaker 1: think we should have kept going? I remember being conflicted,
Speaker 1: but ultimately I felt like that was the right decision.
Speaker 1: And I mean conflicted just that you didn't one to
Speaker 1: end well, yea that it that it could have. Well,
Speaker 1: I think what was inevitable was and I just call
Speaker 1: it the e er syndrome. Like, I think the writing
Speaker 1: was there that people were going to begin to leave,
Speaker 1: and so it's like, oh, okay, are we going to
Speaker 1: eer this and are we going twenty? To me, there
Speaker 1: was sort of like are we going to stop at
Speaker 1: nine or we going twenty? It totally could have gone
Speaker 1: twenty because everybody would have slowly cycled out and we
Speaker 1: just kept the reality of it. My question is would
Speaker 1: people have wanted to see that, not not that people
Speaker 1: are leaving, but that they would be like, I am
Speaker 1: now aware of the fact that is the TV show
Speaker 1: and we ended it before you. Technically you gave them
Speaker 1: that respect of say, you guys have been so good
Speaker 1: to us. We don't want to be taken out back
Speaker 1: behind the behind the wood shed. No. I think, so
Speaker 1: here's what I know that I believe that that story,
Speaker 1: like the idea that this documentary is actually going to
Speaker 1: air and these characters are going to watch it, that
Speaker 1: had to happen right then, or that never happens, I think,
Speaker 1: because you can't do that after twenty years, when you're
Speaker 1: on your and your third cast. I think that's that's
Speaker 1: really true. Um, finale comes. I mean you mentioned that
Speaker 1: you you felt like we needed to end, and you
Speaker 1: were clear with Greg season nine. Once the finale finally comes,
Speaker 1: are you prepared for it? No? No, But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I might have an issue that I need to look into,
Speaker 1: which is like I I think, I try to disengage
Speaker 1: from things and then they kind of catch up to
Speaker 1: me later. So while we were shooting, I was very
Speaker 1: disengaged to the fact that that also meant that it
Speaker 1: was ending, that we had called our shot, which I
Speaker 1: loved in theory, but I didn't really let my brain
Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, only two weeks left, only
Speaker 1: two episodes left, only two scenes left, only you know whatever.
Speaker 1: And I think a big thing that helped was when
Speaker 1: we went to Scranton. I think that getting together and
Speaker 1: having some version of a life experience that felt like
Speaker 1: we were memorializing it helped because I don't know if
Speaker 1: I would have been good having the finale just come out.
Speaker 1: What do you do? Do you do? I like call
Speaker 1: you and be like, so, what what did you think
Speaker 1: about last night's episode? You know what? I mean? Like there,
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do. So I think that
Speaker 1: really helped. When we went to Scranton, that felt really Um,
Speaker 1: that was a really special experience for me. Right, I
Speaker 1: want to show you something? Is it me behind the bar?
Speaker 1: I don't why Why would you ruin something when I'm
Speaker 1: I'm trying to like, I know you took a picture
Speaker 1: of me behind the bar because I got paranoid about it. Um,
Speaker 1: my favorite picture of me and you and Jenna behind
Speaker 1: the bar. Behind the baron that was so much fun
Speaker 1: and nothing that I would have thought I would be doing.
Speaker 1: But I remember you had told me you had done
Speaker 1: this before, and then you told me how awesome it
Speaker 1: wasn't how amazing all the people were Unlike anything else
Speaker 1: I've been a part of, the fans of the office
Speaker 1: had this incredible warmth. I don't know that I ever
Speaker 1: would have done that if the love for the show
Speaker 1: didn't always feel so warm. It never felt fanatical. Everybody
Speaker 1: in that bar felt like they respected the fact that
Speaker 1: they got to have this moment where we were all
Speaker 1: celebrating the show together, cast and fans alike, we're all together,
Speaker 1: felt so organic, rather than like a PR stunt where
Speaker 1: like and if you come down at seven, like I loved.
Speaker 1: I remember the decision to get behind the bar. There
Speaker 1: was only like fifty sixty people, and then by the
Speaker 1: end they were like five hundred. Maybe I'm not remembering.
Speaker 1: I remember even Steve stuck around for the end and
Speaker 1: he kept saying, like, to look at this, like imagine
Speaker 1: being at home right now and being told like, dude,
Speaker 1: you should probably come because Denzel Washington is bartending. Like
Speaker 1: I would if I was a kid in high school,
Speaker 1: I would be like, what you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And the fact that they were like, dude, the cats
Speaker 1: from the office is bartending right now. And Steve got
Speaker 1: back there, didn't He sure did. Yeah, I remember that
Speaker 1: being just so special. I remember they're like, they're going
Speaker 1: to be in a parade and we're gonna have the
Speaker 1: top down. I was like, top down, Like what's happening?
Speaker 1: And then Jenna and I got into a car with
Speaker 1: the top down, like straight like a convertible. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: drove up to the starting area and we saw some people,
Speaker 1: like a lot of excited people, and then we made
Speaker 1: that then and we took a left down some main
Speaker 1: street and it was like thousands of thousands of people.
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be the town of
Speaker 1: Scranton came out and thought it was cool that you
Speaker 1: shot in their town. It was people who had driven
Speaker 1: or flown like people traveled to be at that moment,
Speaker 1: and that I think was so moving to me. I
Speaker 1: was like, I knew our show was successful, but again,
Speaker 1: I always was moved by the success of the interpersonal
Speaker 1: connection that people had. That it wasn't fandom for the
Speaker 1: successful show. It was the feeling of connectivity that we
Speaker 1: were all part of this show. And so I guess
Speaker 1: that was even that late in the game, it was
Speaker 1: still not clear to me how big our show was
Speaker 1: in that level. Yeah, I mean to me, what did
Speaker 1: you what did you take from the from the set?
Speaker 1: What did you take on the last day? Um, I
Speaker 1: got a story. I bet jarb Eminem's smart, there you
Speaker 1: go jar Eminem's and the nameplate jarb Eminem's took home.
Speaker 1: Put it on my desk. Six months pass, A year passes.
Speaker 1: I look and I realized that the Eminem's were going down.
Speaker 1: I'm like, mm hmm, that's odd. I'm definitely not eating them.
Speaker 1: I know how old they are. Nobody in my house.
Speaker 1: Only solution I came up with was that my house
Speaker 1: cleaner every week was coming in walking into my office,
Speaker 1: cleaning my desk and grabbing a handful of looks like
Speaker 1: it looks like something that she could do. So I
Speaker 1: realized I potentially was poisoning her. Yeah, so I took them, panicked,
Speaker 1: I threw them away. So I have the jar still,
Speaker 1: there are no eminems. You should have put the You
Speaker 1: should have put that on a shelf or something, because
Speaker 1: you'd want the eminem's from the set right. Also, it's
Speaker 1: a great science experiment, eminem's lasting for a hundred years.
Speaker 1: It is probably something we should look into. We probably should.
Speaker 1: But no, I was like, I'm I'm poisoning her. I
Speaker 1: have to throw them away because what the The only
Speaker 1: solution is to say to her, I know you're stealing
Speaker 1: ms from by the way, you're poisoning yourself. Wait, what
Speaker 1: if it wasn't her and you're just a horrible person
Speaker 1: that accused her. What if she's like, actually broke into
Speaker 1: my house. Maybe I'm just saying it seems like you're
Speaker 1: leading the witness there and I don't like it. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, what if you asked her and she goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm allergic to chocolate and then you're like, come, come,
Speaker 1: and then the lawn order starts for the eminem Thanks
Speaker 1: for asking me what I took? Um, what did you
Speaker 1: take from the set? Well, it's funny. I'm only think
Speaker 1: about it now. I think it's the only time I
Speaker 1: ever lied to Greg so well. You remember the last moment, right,
Speaker 1: That was vicious. That was vicious. That was hard nobody
Speaker 1: saw Oh boy, god, what was hard? Um that Greg,
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to us, new what the last shot of the
Speaker 1: day would be the last shot ever of the show,
Speaker 1: but we didn't know. We're all goofing off and we
Speaker 1: were leaving the office, which was very poetic, and of
Speaker 1: course he's smart enough to have planned that, and we
Speaker 1: were like laughing and having a great time. And then
Speaker 1: we came back in for a reset and he was
Speaker 1: standing there weird in the middle of the room and
Speaker 1: he was like, that was the last take of the office.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what I mean, like a bus
Speaker 1: hit me. It was so intense, wasn't it, man? And
Speaker 1: I was like amazing and brilliant, but also, how dare you?
Speaker 1: I think I bent over like I was gonna puke.
Speaker 1: I cried very hard. Did you cry? You were you
Speaker 1: were like a stoic cryer, like a like a Gary
Speaker 1: Cooper kind of cry, whereas I was my cry like
Speaker 1: I laugh, I just it's it sounds like just way
Speaker 1: too much, just way too much. But anyway, so I
Speaker 1: remember that moment, and then everybody was going back to
Speaker 1: their trailers and stuff to change, to go to the
Speaker 1: warehouse to do like a big presentation of a game
Speaker 1: or something, right, and as Jim, I didn't have like
Speaker 1: a ton of stuff on your desk. Yeah, and like
Speaker 1: I took the nameplate for sure, but I was like,
Speaker 1: I want something that is undeniably from our set. And
Speaker 1: so I remember, like I think I lied to you,
Speaker 1: Like you were like, so what time, because remember we
Speaker 1: went right to the party, and I super shadily ran
Speaker 1: back in the five minutes that everybody was gone and
Speaker 1: stole the dunder Mifflin sign that we always used to
Speaker 1: walk by and do the talking heads and get this.
Speaker 1: So then I was like, I'm a little ashamed that
Speaker 1: I didn't tell anybody, but I really wanted it. And
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I'll look back on this
Speaker 1: and it'll be like, you know, a bad high school
Speaker 1: kid decision. So I get to the party and I
Speaker 1: was like, Greg, what did you take? And he goes,
Speaker 1: I'm really bummed someone took the dunder Mifflin sign. That's
Speaker 1: what I wanted. And he goes, do you know who
Speaker 1: took it? And I went no, and I legit to
Speaker 1: his face, was like no, that is terrible who took it.
Speaker 1: I was like, if you want it, that should be
Speaker 1: yours and he was like right, And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: all good news days. You got tons of other stuff.
Speaker 1: And remember he was talking about like we were going
Speaker 1: to donate the set to the Smithsony or something. He
Speaker 1: had that plan, so I was like, he has plenty.
Speaker 1: But then the longer I thought about it, I was like,
Speaker 1: you lied to your TV dad. Do you have it
Speaker 1: on your wall now? Oh? Yeah, it's in my office. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got it framed like it looks great. Oh look
Speaker 1: good for you. Away. That night, I hit a speed
Speaker 1: bump and the eye and under Mifflin flew off and
Speaker 1: I almost oh, I almost lost my mind. And then
Speaker 1: Phil Shay emailed him like a year and a half later,
Speaker 1: and I was like, bro, that's I won't go back,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to, you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the one to put it up,
Speaker 1: because it's like you being the one to add paint
Speaker 1: to a famous paintings. He was like, I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: you an eye, like the same type of foam and everything.
Speaker 1: I'll just send it to you. And I was like, great,
Speaker 1: and he sent it to me. And then later he
Speaker 1: sent me The Adventures of Jimmy Halpert comic my actual bag.
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say, the bag is
Speaker 1: what you took when I'm talking like five years later.
Speaker 1: I asked for and he sent it. I don't know
Speaker 1: how he knew where that was, but it was the comic.
Speaker 1: It was my dundee, and then my bag, and then
Speaker 1: maybe my watch. I think I had a watch that
Speaker 1: he put in there. Anyway, That's all I have now.
Speaker 1: That was the greatest decision props wise, that I ever
Speaker 1: made on that show, was not asking for a watch
Speaker 1: early on, so I'm not having to do that propless
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Speaker 1: You obviously wildly successful when people approach you. Now what
Speaker 1: percentage of it is about the office? Oh? Large majority. Again,
Speaker 1: I think it's the difference between fans who feel like
Speaker 1: they're a part of something and fans who have watched something.
Speaker 1: I think there's very few things that I watched when
Speaker 1: I was a kid that I felt so connected to.
Speaker 1: It was more like, oh, I like the movie e T.
Speaker 1: But there were very few things that I felt like
Speaker 1: if I ever saw that person, we shared a life
Speaker 1: moment together. Had I ever met Chris Farley, I would
Speaker 1: have said that because I watched Tommy Boy so many
Speaker 1: times that he didn't know he was my best friend,
Speaker 1: but he was my best friend. So I think that
Speaker 1: thing is like I shared so much in my life
Speaker 1: with that show. That's why I think that people, you know,
Speaker 1: people have seen other things, which is great. Certainly recently,
Speaker 1: like I think Quiet Place in Jack Ryan people are
Speaker 1: coming up a lot more. But I I think our
Speaker 1: fans see me and instead of going up to an
Speaker 1: actor to get a picture or something, they're actually seeing
Speaker 1: a friend of theirs. Is my point, My long meandering
Speaker 1: point is no one looks at Jack Ryan and was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, my buddy, Jack Ryan, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you're an actor. I didn't realize they do think that
Speaker 1: with Jim and I've had my favorite experiences with fans
Speaker 1: is when they think we've gone to school together or something.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite. Like I I had one where a
Speaker 1: woman said we know each other and I said do
Speaker 1: we and she goes, we went to school together, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't. I don't think we did,
Speaker 1: and she went, yes we did. And it was like
Speaker 1: that thing of like why am I being awkward about it?
Speaker 1: And where did you go to school? And she said
Speaker 1: some school and I went, I did not go to
Speaker 1: that school, and she went, yes you did, and like
Speaker 1: I was like okay, and then I left and I
Speaker 1: could see that either someone else someone else and then
Speaker 1: like you don't know that person. You just thought that
Speaker 1: it was at the airport bookshop and then through the
Speaker 1: window you saw them being like silence, being like oh god.
Speaker 1: It was great, but I think that that's such a
Speaker 1: credit to the show that you don't just like the show,
Speaker 1: you actually think you know those people. Yes, because I
Speaker 1: I By the way, I'm not necessarily comparing you to
Speaker 1: Ted Danson in exactly the same way. No, but I
Speaker 1: just mean, like Ted Danson was doing a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff and immediately after Cheers, but there was something about
Speaker 1: Cheers Sam alone that everything else, not even that a
Speaker 1: are things wouldn't have been as good or better. But
Speaker 1: Cheers was what I shared because there was a purity
Speaker 1: to that experience that you had watched the same with me.
Speaker 1: I mean I was I grew up in Boston, like
Speaker 1: Cheers was a form of like television religion or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will take a comparison to ted Dance in anytime.
Speaker 1: Then I won't do that again. God damn it. Here,
Speaker 1: put on these earphones. I want you to hear something.
Speaker 1: I'm playing something for everybody. Boy, Um, we should have
Speaker 1: had these on the whole time. I would have I
Speaker 1: would have changed my voice play. Um, don't ever, ever,
Speaker 1: when I have an earphone on and I have your
Speaker 1: tone right in my ear, don't talk low like that.
Speaker 1: My voice slips And Nope, I just slips around. I
Speaker 1: don't like that in my head. I don't like your
Speaker 1: voice slipping around in my ear. Um, we play clip
Speaker 1: six for me, Clip six. I thought it was weird
Speaker 1: when you picked us to make a documentary, But all
Speaker 1: in all, I think an ordinary paper company like dunder
Speaker 1: Mifflin was a great subject for a documentary. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of beauty and ordinary things. Isn't that kind of
Speaker 1: the point? So Gregg wrote that clearly for him, that
Speaker 1: was the point. What did you think the point was
Speaker 1: the point of what shooting the show? The show? Sorry,
Speaker 1: my brain just exploded again. Um. I think that that
Speaker 1: is so beautiful that writing. And I would only suspect
Speaker 1: that it came from someone who created the show, because
Speaker 1: someone who creates the show and doesn't just act on
Speaker 1: the show would have to have in their head at beginning,
Speaker 1: middle and end. And you're shooting for something. And I
Speaker 1: love that that's what he was shooting for. What are
Speaker 1: you most thankful for? Oh? My god? Everything? I mean,
Speaker 1: are you asking me as a person? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: without sounding hyperball, it's it is my everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: that show changed my entire life. Was twenty three when
Speaker 1: it started. So I hadn't even really formed an identity
Speaker 1: of who I was. And so that show, not only
Speaker 1: from a career perspective, where I've had more opportunity than
Speaker 1: I ever would have dreamt of having for one day,
Speaker 1: I have for an entire lifetime, is all due to
Speaker 1: that show. I never would be doing any other thing
Speaker 1: that you've seen me do, writing, directing, acting in something
Speaker 1: else if it wasn't for that show. But as a person,
Speaker 1: I think it sort of gave me this very quintessential
Speaker 1: building block that I got to stand on to build
Speaker 1: the rest of my life. Yeah, you're you're about to say,
Speaker 1: that's all crack of ship? What what? What? What would
Speaker 1: you say? I think it's very similar. I think I
Speaker 1: was processing what you were saying that because of the
Speaker 1: people who were working on it, not just the actors,
Speaker 1: but the writers who are like all showrunners. Now from
Speaker 1: the early season you shore extremely successful, fun, good shows.
Speaker 1: It's but also our crew. Like you said, like you
Speaker 1: know again in a very probably lame cliche hallmark way,
Speaker 1: like I don't know that as a person I would
Speaker 1: be able to have the luxury forget you know, success
Speaker 1: or finance or anything. It's the luxury of being who
Speaker 1: I wanted to be. I didn't know who I wanted
Speaker 1: to be. And because of such a warm environment where
Speaker 1: if everyone had a color, people were splashing their experience
Speaker 1: and their colors all over me. I got exposed to
Speaker 1: everything I wanted to be and then got to choose
Speaker 1: to move forward with my life in a way that
Speaker 1: I not only didn't know existed, but that I could sustain.
Speaker 1: Like that you could, you could do fantastic fun stuff
Speaker 1: every day for ten years of your life. And genuinely,
Speaker 1: I've been asked. I'm sure you get asked all the time,
Speaker 1: what year were you guys? All over it? Like when
Speaker 1: were you guys? Like, we're over it? And I genuinely
Speaker 1: am trying not to look back with revisionist history. I
Speaker 1: don't remember one moment where I was like, such a job,
Speaker 1: that's just yeah, would you do a reunion? I'm asking
Speaker 1: the questions, what are you? What are you doing now?
Speaker 1: I just feel like we're you picked up a pencil,
Speaker 1: You're like doodling. No, I just wanted I was thinking
Speaker 1: about writing some questions down for you, and then I
Speaker 1: started doing my um, what was your question? Would you
Speaker 1: want to do a reunion or a show? Like a
Speaker 1: reunion show. Yeah, I don't know that you want to
Speaker 1: be on a reboot, right? I think that I think
Speaker 1: with the right idea because clearly the show is bigger
Speaker 1: now than it was. Sure, and that's all great. That's
Speaker 1: again that's the that's the business side of it. I
Speaker 1: think that for me, it's really simply down to wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be fun? Like just throw an episode out there,
Speaker 1: almost like they did the Christmas specials for the British one.
Speaker 1: What I like about the idea is that it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be better or worse than any of the
Speaker 1: episodes we've ever done. It would actually be cool to
Speaker 1: just tell a story just like no stakes. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: thanks blood, You're welcome. Is it over? Yeah? I mean,
Speaker 1: do you have anything else you want to say? I mean,
Speaker 1: we feel like we covered a lot of topics, we
Speaker 1: covered a lot of ground. I don't know what I said. Um, John,
Speaker 1: I love you so much and I appreciate you coming
Speaker 1: and talking to me. This is great. But also it's
Speaker 1: just so good to see you. It's so good to
Speaker 1: see you. I feel like I just went to a
Speaker 1: therapy session. You did you did great? Which don't cut
Speaker 1: yourself out of this you you'll get my bill. Um,
Speaker 1: we still have headphones on which allows me to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to slip around. I don't want your slipper.
Speaker 1: I don't want your slipping around in my brain or ear.
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