Here’s All ‘The Office’ Cast Members Who Want A Reunion
“The Office” went off the air 2013, but that hasn’t stopped cast members from the defunct NBC comedy from talking about its future. Several years after the series wrapped, stars of the program have spoken out about wanting to revive the show, which brought the likes of Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski to fame.
Here’s what they had to say:
Angela Kinsey
Kinsey is the most recent cast member to speak out about a possible reunion. The Angela actress told Us Weekly on Friday that she considers the show a big part of her life and still talks about it all the time with fans. “It’s such an amazing chapter of my life,” Kinsey gushed.
When asked if she thought there would ever been an “The Office” reunion, Kinsey had high hopes there will be. “I would love it, but I have no idea,” she shared. “Everybody's doing so many things, but sign me up. I would do it.”
Rainn Wilson
What’s an “The Office” reunion with Angela’s Dwight? Like his former on-screen flame, Wilson has said he’s also onboard for a reunion. “Yeah I’d be up for that,” the actor told CinemaBlend earlier this year. As for what type of reunion, he had some specifics in mind. “A reunion episode or kind of like... continue on with a couple little movies here or a little limited series there,” he said.
Craig Robinson
Robinson may have several other projects in the works, but that doesn’t mean he’s unwilling to return to his “The Office” roots. Speaking to International Business Times in January, the actor said if there was a reboot of the show, he would participate. “Anything to do with ‘The Office’ I would revisit,” he told IBT.
Robinson also shared that he’s in frequent contact with several of his former co-stars. “You know, every once in awhile there will be an email chain. So once in awhile we keep in touch. Not that often, but if people are available, we come running.”
Mindy Kaling
Kaling not only portrayed Kelly on the comedy, she also wrote many of the series’ hit episodes. In September, during an interview on “The Talk,” she said she could see herself lending her expertise to “The Office” U.S. showrunner Greg Daniels in the future.
“I loved working on the show and I was there for eight years,” Kaling said. “I think that if Greg Daniels, who did the American version of the show, he’s such a genius. And if he were to be in charge of it, I can’t imagine that I wouldn’t want to help out in some way, or write, and I feel like probably the rest of the cast feels the same.”
John Krasinski
As one of the show’s leads, Krasinski’s desire to see a reunion has to stand for something, right? The actor told Huffington Post in August 2016 that he’d return to the story “in a heartbeat” should someone come up with an idea “that made sense.”
Jenna Fisher
Luckily for Jim and Pam fans out there, actress Jenna Fisher is also onboard with the idea. When Kaling tweeted in August 2016 that there were numerous pop culture items Carell’s character Michael Scott could react to in new episodes, Fisher made it clear they needed a reunion.
Phyllis Smith
While promoting her film “Inside Out” in October 2015, Smith said she considered an “The Office” reunion a “really great idea.”
“I haven’t heard anything. It was such a joy to work with those people, so any time they want to pull us back together, I’d be on board immediately,” she told Entertainment Weekly.
Ed Helms
Helms was more than willing to rejoin his old cast when asked to share his thoughts on the matter with E! in May.
“Hey, sign me up. I’d be there in a second. I miss those people so much. I miss that whole world. It was such a fun universe, Dunder Mifflin. It was an incredible place to just hang out and play as an actor. Those are some of the most wonderful people you’d ever hope to work with.”
Steve Carell
Unfortunately for the cast members and fans wanting a reunion, two of the show’s longtime stars, including former lead Carell, are not smitten with the prospect of a reunion.
After teasing the return of the show in January on Twitter following NBC’s renewal of “Will and Grace,” only to later reveal he was joking, Carell explained why he doesn’t want to participate. “I don’t think so,” the Michael Scott actor told The Insider in June. “I think people think they want to see a new Office but they don’t really. Truly, because it just would not be the same. I think people would be disappointed.”
Paul Lieberstein
Like Carell, Lieberstein, who played Michael’s nemesis Toby, said he doesn’t see a reunion happening. “There is no chance,” he said told TMZ in 2014 when asked about the possibility of a movie about the series.
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