Before the series finale of the office on thursday night nbc took a look back at the show s nine season run with a special the office retrospective and fans got a look at john krasinksi and jenna fischer s audition for the roles of jim and pam from a decade ago. This is a small excerpt from a much longer conversation that. If you liked this video there s a lot more where it came from.
John krasinski talks to sam jones about his audition for the office. When john krasinski auditioned in 2005 for the role of jim halpert on the office he was only two years removed from brown university and he was working as a waiter he d had a few bit parts. John krasinski was called in to audition for dwight but he read the script and knew he was meant to be jim.
But the vision for the cast was originally a little different. I think i don t need to be the one to tell fans that the office is perfectly cast the way it is. 7 john krasinski was originally called in to audition for the role of dwight.
Krasinski replied that he wasn t. Krasinski once shared with fans that in the waiting room for his office audition he was asked by a man he didn t recognize whether he was nervous. The office alum john krasinski recalls a blunder he made when going to audition for the role of jim halpert.
Developed by greg daniels the workplace comedy ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013 out of the office s 201 total episodes krasinski directly appeared in all but one of them his time on the sitcom opened many doors in his. John krasinski might be synonymous with the name jim halpert thanks to the office but the actor had his sights set on another role when the nbc sitcom was casting. And her co star and onscreen love interest john krasinski predicted her casting the moment he first saw her during auditions for the beloved nbc comedy which ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013.
