Although John Krasinski‘s Jim principally solely had eyes for Jenna Fischer‘s Pam on The Office, he definitely had a kind.
Fischer lately famous that Amy Adams “was not the primary individual solid within the function” of Katy Moore on the NBC mockumentary sitcom’s Season 1 episode ‘Hot Girl’, which aired in April 2005, as a result of they “regarded too related.”
“We initially shot ‘Hot Girl’ for a whole day with a totally totally different actress within the function of Katy,” she recalled to co-host Angela Kinsey on their Office Ladies podcast. “And sadly, she simply wasn’t fairly proper for the function. They needed to let her go. We changed her with Amy.
“I bear in mind when Amy got here on the set, she was so seamlessly Katy. She improvises lots, you guys. We’ll get to it. But loads of her improvs make it in. She simply knew who this lady was,” added Fischer.
Although she stated Adams was everybody’s first selection, Fischer defined, “There was this concern that Amy and I regarded too related. I assume one of many writers even stated, ‘I’m sorry. We can’t solid her. She’s like Jenna 2.0.’ And so that they obtained chilly toes they usually solid another person.”
The author’s remark impressed a line when boss Michael Scott (Steve Carell) compares their seems and refers to Katy as “Pam 6.0.”
While Pam was engaged to warehouse employee Roy (David Denman) within the first few seasons, Jim struck up a romance with Katy. She later returned within the Season 2 episodes ‘The Fire’ and ‘Booze Cruise’ earlier than Jim broke it off as he was secretly in love with Pam. Jim and Pam ended up tying the knot within the Season 6 two-part episode ‘Niagara’ in 2009.
Based on the 2001-’03 BBC collection of the identical title, The Office ran for 9 seasons on NBC from 2005 to 2013.
