Fans of The Office are looking forward to the upcoming series The Paper, which is set in the same universe as the fan-favorite show, which followed employees at the Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
While it was a mockumentary-style show set out to capture the daily lives of a group of co-workers and their cringy boss, it was also so full of heart and fantastically-written characters, it has stayed at the top of rewatched series since it aired.
John Krasinski, who played Jim in The Office, got to know the star of the upcoming spinoff, Domhnall Gleeson, while working with him on recently released Apple TV+ adventure flick Fountain of Youth.
The Office showrunner Greg Daniels created the spinoff with Michael Koman (Nathan For You), and Daniels is showrunning the new series set to stream on Peacock in September.
When asked by Entertainment Tonight if he could see himself reuniting with Daniels on The Paper, Krasinski said, “I would do anything for that guy. He calls, I’ll show up.” He went on to say that Gleeson is “amazing,” adding, “He’s one of my favorite actors. I remember we were in Cairo [filming Fountain of Youth], and he said, ‘Can I talk to you about something?’ And it was real serious. He said, ‘I just got offered this part in The Paper. What do you think?’”
“I said, ‘You’ve got to do it,’” Krasinski continued. “He’s like, ‘I think it’s going to be really good.’ I said, ‘As long as Greg is behind it, it’s going to be great.’ We’re all so supportive. The whole cast [of The Office] was texting about these guys making their show. It’s going to be awesome.”
The Paper also stars Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus), Melvin Gregg (Nine Perfect Strangers), Chelsea Frei (The Moodys), Ramona Young (Never Have I Ever), Gbemisola Ikumelo (A League of Their Own), Alex Edelman (Just For Us), and Tim Key (The End of the F***ing World) as the staffers of The Truth Teller. The Office actor Oscar Nuñez recurs alongside Nancy Lenehan (Veep), Molly Ephraim (Last Man Standing), Tracy Letts (Homeland), and Allan Havey, who appeared as Henry Bruegger — a Brussels sprouts farmer and father of Nora Kirkpatrick’s Esther Bruegger — in The Farm episode of The Office that doubled as a backdoor pilot for a potential spinoff fronted by Rainn Wilson’s Dwight Schrute.
The Paper premieres this fall on Peacock.
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