He’s getting the stapler and Jello-O prepared.
“The Office” star John Krasinski “would be down” to do a cameo on the present’s spinoff collection, “The Paper.”
“Done! If they ask me, I’m in,” Krasinski, 43, stated when requested concerning the comedy throughout a latest interview with EXTRA.
“I’m excited to see what they do with it. It’s such an amazing idea, and listen, if Greg [Daniels] is behind it, we’re all in. And you can’t get a better actor than [Domhnall Gleeson] to take on the mantle,” Krasinski went on. “He’s so, so great. He’s going to be so perfect for it, and we’ll probably start doing watch parties again just to watch them.”
“The Office,” which ran for 9 seasons from 2005 to 2013 on NBC, was a mockumentary of a bunch of workplace staff at a paper firm going by means of their mundane days, consisting of ego clashes, inappropriate habits, and romance.
Krasinski, who performed Jim Halpert, co-starred alongside Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, Kate Flannery, Phyllis Smith, Brian Baumgartner, Leslie David Baker and extra.
Within the ebook “Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office,” authors Daniels, Baumgarter and Ben Silverman give readers and longtime followers the within story behind the hit present.
Some of the notable components of the ebook revealed that there was going to be a rift between lovebirds Jim Halpert (Krasinski) and Pam Beesly (Fischer).
Initially, Jim was going to make out with Pam’s alternative, Cathy Simms (performed by Lindsay Broad), in Season 8 of the present.
Nonetheless, there was pushback on that — particularly from Krasinski — saying that it might have altered the present’s legacy.
“That’s the only time I remember putting my foot down … I remember saying things that I never thought I’d say before, like, ‘I’m not going to shoot it,’” Krasinski stated. “My feeling is there is a threshold with which you can push our audience. They are so dedicated. We have shown such great respect to them. But there’s a moment where if you push them too far, they’ll never come back. And I think that if you show Jim cheating, they’ll never come back.”
Simply final 12 months, Krasinski stated that he wasn’t going to be in “The Papers.”
“As of now, I haven’t been asked,” Krasinski stated to Leisure Tonight in 2024. “But the truth is, I’d do anything for Greg Daniels. It sounds like they have a really fun idea.”
Carell, in the meantime, doesn’t plan to reprise his Michael Scott position.
“It’s just a new thing, and there’s really no reason for my character to show up in something like that,” Carell instructed The Hollywood Reporter in Could 2024, saying that he’s “excited” for the present and it “sounds like a great concept.”
The spinoff collection will observe Gleeson, alongside co-star Sabrina Impacciatore, 56 (“The White Lotus”), as new characters navigate their lives within the Midwest. He beforehand labored with Krasinski on this 12 months’s “Fountain of Youth.”
“The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters,” a Peacock synopsis reads.
Since “The Office” ended, Krasinski has been in a number of exhibits and films, together with “A Quiet Place,” A Quiet Place Half II,” and the “Jack Ryan” collection on Amazon Prime.
Most not too long ago, he stars alongside Natalie Portman within the new mystery-thriller film “Fountain of Youth,” which follows two estranged siblings on a world heist to seek out the legendary Fountain of Youth. The movie is about to be launched on Could 23 on Apple TV+.
“The Paper” will debut on Peacock in September 2025.
