Best friends and former costarsJenna FischerandAngela Kinseystill have many stories to share from their time onThe Office.
The revelation came during a spring cleaning session.
Were there findings that didn’t make it into the final book?
‘The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office From Two Best Friends Who Were There’ by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey is out May 17.Dey Street Books
We did our best to whittle it down.
Those are pictures that we love so much but we didn’t have space for in the book.
And we were trying to think, ‘How can we share these amazing pictures?’
An image of John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, and Angela Kinsey from ‘The Office BFFs’.Courtesy of Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
And so we made them our end papers.
This was during season 2.
This was such a big deal for the cast.
An image of Angela Kinsey from ‘The Office BFFs’.Courtesy of Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
And for a while we had this memo.
KINSEY:It’s a total inside joke.
FISCHER:There’s little things like that.
A cast image from ‘The Office BFFs’.Courtesy of Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
So I went around and I took a Michael Scott business card.
I took the name plate off of my trailer door.
So there were just things like that.
KINSEY:I saved an accounting profit and loss form that said Dunder Mifflin at the top.
That was just like a big piece of paper we did for busy work.
And I have my security badge with my photo that we took on set that day.
And I have Angela Martin hair.
It’s an Angela Martin security badge, except she’s smiling.
You share fun anecdotes from various episodes.
I have so many questions.
FISCHER:They were doing those scenes kind of on the fly.
I guess you could put that in the column of things I learned when we were writing the book.
So until the words ‘Action!’
are yelled you have to puke off this side of a boat.
I mean, I almost really did vomit.
And you know, we talked about that in the book, about just everyone being so nauseous.
Then to pretend to vomit when you were already on uneasy legs.
So that episode was just so much fun.
I’m glad we got to share more about it in the book.
I think I did three takes, but that was three takes too many.
Cold vegetables in your mouth in a liquid form is not good.
It’s pretty gross.
You all decided to end together after 9 seasons.
Can you speak more on that bittersweet decision?
It just felt sad and wrong.
And we got to share with him.
And I mean, that was just such a gracious thing that he did.
Did any of your pitches make it into the final season?
KINSEY:Creed [Bratton]’s did, which I think is so sweet.
So Creed in that Halloween episode, it was between Creed and Devon, right?
Who’s getting fired.
FISCHER:John [Krasinski]and I were very involved in the Jim/Pam storyline for the final season.
Gosh, you should probably ask John.
Wouldn’t it be so amazing?'
Their life has been documented and they’ve never seen it.
How would that impact you?
If you could go back and someone had taped your first date?
That would be incredible.
Steve returns in the final season, in the finale.
Jenna, you touch on how only you, John, and Rainn Wilson knew about this at first.
Tell me more about keeping this big secret.
FISCHER:It was really hard not to tell Angela.
Rainn was like, ‘Jenna, don’t you dare.’
I was like, ‘Oh my gosh.
I don’t want to start something.’
So I did keep the secret from Angela.
I was so excited when she knew, but then we all had to not say anything.
We had to do all of our press for the finale.
We taped a lot of stuff before the episode aired.
We never even teased it.
We never even said, ‘Oh, there might be a fun surprise.’
We didn’t say anything like that because Greg really, really wanted to surprise the audience.
He did not want promos.
He did not want teases.
He wanted that moment to just shock the heck out of people.
I mean, I remember the online response.
KINSEY:And I think about the world we live in now with social media, right Jenna?
How could we have ever pulled that off?
I still can’t believe we pulled it off.
I still can’t.
You touch onThe Farm, the spin-off with Rainn that never reached fruition, in the book, too.
Would you both be open to a spin-off if the opportunity presented itself?
KINSEY:Well, me and Brian and Oscar for years joked about the spin-off calledThe Accountants.
And that maybe we started our own accounting firm.
I’d say, ‘Of course.’
We get to be an audience.
FISCHER:I agree.
You write about the challenges of being working moms while filming the series.
In your jointKelly Clarkson Showappearance, Angela, you said your daughter started watching it.
What does she think about the show?
Jenna, would you be open to your kids tuning in?
KINSEY:Well, my daughter’s in middle school.
And I will tell you, middle schoolers loveThe Office.They love it.
She is sometimes upset with me because she thinks I’m too mean to Phyllis.
She’s like, ‘Mom, you’re so mean to Phyllis.’
And I’m like, ‘That’s not me!’
But it is a really fun thing to see the show through her eyes.
I’ve really enjoyed that.
FISCHER:Yeah, my kids are a little too young to have an interest in it just yet.
So they appreciate Dwight.
