Month: May 2006

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John Krasinski Hails Office Romance

TVGuide.com’s Insider column features an interview with John Krasinski (“Jim”).

An excerpt:

TVGuide.com: You always hear stories about how Office cast members pass the time on the set, blogging or playing games on their characters’ computers. What do you tend to do?

Krasinski: I check e-mail here and there, and maybe read some articles online, but I’m in an awkward position because when they shoot outside of Michael’s office or from any angle, because of where my desk is located, you can always see my screen. [Laughs] Right before every shot, it’s like, “John, [put up] something we can use, buddy!”

Read the full article here. (Some spoilerish Casino Night details; proceed with caution.)

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Jenna and John’s Wednesday TV interviews

Jenna Fischer (“Pam”) just posted in her MySpace blog that she and John Krasinski (“Jim”) will be doing a slew of TV interviews tomorrow morning, May 10th.

Check her post for the complete schedule.

Update: Here’s a link to one of Jenna’s appearances, Jacksonville, FL, NBC12. Can’t believe the reporter didn’t know Steve Carell’s name. Sheesh!

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Steve Carell video clip

First an article, and now a video of Steve Carell talking about his first Office writing gig on Casino Night. He channels a little bit of Michael Scott at the end of it.

To access the clip, go to the main NBC Office site and click the Feature Video link in the right column.

(For Mac users, follow the instructions here, and then enter this link in the Open URL window: mms://od-msn.msn.com/3/mbr/office_int_scarell_051106.wmv)

Thanks to Lori over at Northern Attack for the tip!

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Steve Carell talks about writing ‘Casino Night’

Steve Carell talks to Lisa Rosen of the L.A. Times about what it was like to write the upcoming season finale, Casino Night.

For one thing, he tried to get out of writing the episode at one point:

He had essentially one weekend to write the script, and his parents were coming to town for that weekend. So he went into Daniels’ office to try to get out of it. “I said I don’t know if I can give it my full attention, and I don’t want to do a half-baked job of it,” said Carell by phone from the set of “Evan Almighty” in Virginia. “But he is a very persuasive gentleman, and I walked out of the meeting not only still writing the episode, but filled with all sorts of hope and excitement about the episode.”

Read the full article here — which validates what the rest of the cast has always said — that Steve is the nicest, most normal kind of guy.