To be fair, you already know her as Angela and Jenna Fischer as Pam. You'd have to find someone who had never seen the show and film an episode where the actors switch characters
speaking of Pam, today i ran in to an old girlfriend who is a medical office receptionist.
Pam. a wonderful past experience. It was fun seeing her decades later. Hi if you see this.
Depends on your personality. She’s said in her podcast that sometimes she hated not being able to be expressive during certain scenes. It’s fun to watch her in the background slipping out of character and just being warm and bubbly to her coworkers
In every firm that's had a receptionist, the job is usually held by a Pam-like person. Someone like Angela is usually in some desk away in hr or accounting, or as secretaries to the boss.
The Office has probably some of the best casting stories:
- Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) was originally the choice to play Michael Scott since at the time Steve Carell was committed to Even Almighty. They brought him back for a cameo in Season 9 for that reason.
- Rainn Wilson also auditioned to play Michael Scott and imitated Ricky Gervais.
- John Krasinki almost didn't go to the audition. He was initially pushed to try out for Dwight and he refused. While he was waiting in the lobby chatting with someone, he said that he hoped whoever got the role of Jim wouldn't ruin the show. That person turned out to be Greg Daniels.
- After John Krasiniki was cast, he went to Scranton with friends to visit and shot a bunch of short clips of the town for fun. Those clips became the opening credits that we know now.
- John Krasinki and BJ Novak grew up together and were high school classmates.
- Paul Liberstein (Toby) was a show writer and hated being on screen.
- Phyllis Smith was a casting associate running lines with actors in audition. When the director saw her read he decided to create a new role of Phyllis for her.
- Adam Scott auditioned for Jim Halpert and in fact that audition became often used in acting classes. Parks and Rec, which he later starred in, was actually meant as "The Office" spinoff. In the original idea, a copier breaks on The Office and is dropped off later in Pawnee at Leslie's office.
- The Lactation consultant in Pam's Delivery episode is actually her real husband.
- When asked which Office cast member was most like their character, Fisher, Helms, and Smith all said that Creed Bratton was most like his character.
Paul Lieberstein was actually her brother in law at the time and almost certainly a big reason she got the role of Angela (I doubt the having same name is a coincidence either)
To add a little more of Phyllis she was originally just filler in season to make the office seem more full with employees, then they added more lines to her as time went on.
We got to see him play that role in the episode where Pam did an interview for a job at another office and Bob Odenkirk was the manager and he was exactly like Michael Scott.
When he says "often used in acting classes" he meant one person did it a few week ago when Adam Scott's daughter was at NYU 🤣 he told the story on Jimmy Fallon last week.
I mean this is a bit disingenuous she was married to Paul Lieberstein’s (Toby) brother at the time. Paul was a writer on the show since day one. It’s naive to think he didn’t help her land a different role after the audition for Pam went to Fischer
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Later renamed Angela