'Ed told me that he was a huge fan of the original BBC Office,' Jenna Fischer said on the latest episode of her Office Ladies podcast
"Ed told me that he was a huge fan of the original BBC, and he said not many people know this, but he originally auditioned in New York for the role of Jim," said Fischer, who along with Kinsey, 48, admitted that it was a fact they didn't know about their costar.
Fischer added that Helms "said he didn't get the role obviously, but he heard that Steve [Carell] got the role of Michael Scott and he was so excited because he had worked with Steve on"He was so excited for our American version of the show and he watched it and loved it, and somewhere near the end of season 2, he got a phone call to meet with Greg Daniels and Paul Lieberstein about a new character that they wanted to introduce in Season 3," Fischer continued.
Fischer added that Helms was only initially hired for eight episodes. "They thought that the Stamford storyline would not necessarily end in a merger, and that his character would be finished when Jim went back to Dunder Mifflin," Fischer said. "That was the plan, that Jim would eventually return. But this idea that the other Stamford characters would return wasn't quite in the works yet.
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