For Jenna Fischer, playing “Pam” for nine seasons on The Office was apparently a blessing and a curse.In the latest episode of her Office Ladies podcast, Fischer finally split the tea on why she was recast after shooting a pilot for Man with a Plan, a show featuring Friends star Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey Tribbiani on that long-running sitcom.According to Fischer, she lost the role as LeBlanc’s wife when test audiences couldn’t get past that they were watching Pam and Joey.
They didn’t “believe Pam would marry Joey.”Fischer claimed that network executives initially asked for “more scenes” with her.
But the pilot and the focus group’s reaction sunk that opportunity.“They said — this is a literal quote, they said, ‘I don’t believe Pam
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