Things could have been very different if Ed Helms scored the “Office” role he originally auditioned for. Jenna Fischer told her “Office Ladies” podcast co-host Angela Kinsey about how he joined the ranks of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. “Ed told me that he was a huge fan of the original BBC ‘Office’, and he said not many people know this, but he originally auditioned in New York for the role of Jim,” Fischer told Kinsey via Mashable. “Oh!
I didn’t know that,” Kinsey said. “[Helms] said he didn’t get the role [of Jim] obviously, but he heard that Steve got the role of Michael Scott and he was so excited because he had worked with Steve on ‘The Daily Show’,” Fischer continued.
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