- You and I would talk to Ken all the time.
- All the time. - Yeah.
- Probably like, too much.
Like, he probably at some point,
"Ah, ladies, I kinda have work to do, really?"
Hi, Ken.
He's just so lovely.
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- When you finish a season of a have a show,
it's sort of customary to give out little presents
to your cast members or to some of your crew members.
Kate Flannery had these Dunder Mifflin candles made,
do you remember that?
- I have it! - I still have it!
- I have it.
- Yeah, and she gave out like, a Dunder Mifflin,
but we really gifted, we were like, we're done.
- I got everyone to sign my script, so I still have that
and that's really cool.
And Kate gave me a photo of herI
standing at our trailers, 'cause we shared a trailer,
Kate and I had a trailer
and just the only thing between our toilets
was like, a plastic accordion d.
So, if I sat on my toilet and she sat on hers,
our knees touched.
So, we made a vow to never use our toilets.
We were like, we just can't, we,
that's just not gonna happen.
- I remember that.
- You remember our plastic acco?
- I do. - It didn't even really shut,
so we just opened it and just shared basically one room
with two toilets.
- Well, when I think back to th,
I remember having anxiety about,
I mean, I've just had the most thrilling experience
of my acting life.
I had been a struggling actor for eight years
before I got my job on The Offi.
I'd never had a regular role on.
I done pilots, but they never got picked up,
so this was my first series and I thought, well,
what do I do if this show gets ?
I guess I just go back to the b.
I mean, we could have all had tk
and get day jobs again.
- I mean, so Kate Flannery and ,
we did not quit our day jobs
for the first season of The Off.
- Oh, I remember that!
- [Angela] Kate Flannery was still a waitress
at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hi.
And so, she would work on The Oe
and then she'd go wait tables.
- [Jenna] I remember that. - Yeah.
And I was working at IOS, which was an improv theater
and I was helping run The Offic,
and I stayed on and would help.
- [Jenna] Yeah. - I just would've gone back
to helping run a theater and improv classes,
and I ran the intern program.
I fired one of my interns.
He's a lovable person and I lov.
- Tell me.
- So, this was my intern who was always late.
He was always late.
The higher ups said, "Okay, you can be late three times
and then you get fired."
And so--
- As an intern, his job was to keep the restroom clean.
- Oh, he had to come early, set up The Box Office.
- Okay.
- Like, we needed him there early and he was late a lot,
but I really liked him.
And then finally they were like,
"You're gonna have to fire him."
So, he walks in one day and his name is Derek Waters,
creator of Drunk History.
And he walked in and he was rea.
And I was like, "Hey, Derek."
And he was like, "Hey, Angela, are you gonna fire me today?"
And I was like, "I am."
And he goes, "Okay."
- Oh my gosh, Angela, hee told me this story.
I wrote a book, everyone plug,
"The Actor's Life: A Survival G"
Check it out, local bookstores, check it out.
I wrote a book and I interviewed Derek in the book
and he told me the story of being fired from IO.
I did not know it was you that .
- It was me.
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- You know what I did?
- What?
- I made a mixtape.
- Oh my God!
- I made a mixtape and I called it something like,
Scranton Sounds.
Sounds of Scranton.
- Sounds of Scranton.
- And I gave it to John, Rain, Steve and BJ,
along with a tiny homemade scrapbook of some photos.
- [Angela] And then you said, "Hi, 1994: Cult."
(Angela and Jenna laughing)
"I want my mixtape back."
- I'm sure those guys were like,
"This is the girliest present I've ever been given."
- [Angela] I just picture you giving that mixtape to people
and some people like, they don't even have a tape player
in their car.
- It was a CD.
- Okay!
- It was a mix CD, I call it mi.
- Okay, I pictured an actual mi.
- No, it wasn't a cassette, it .
I am certain if I had to bet mo,
I am certain no one ever listen.
- [Angela] Oh.
- I listen to it all the time.
- [Angela] You listen to it in your car ride
'cause it was the Sounds of Scr.
- It was the Sounds of Scranton, this is real.
So, my commute to where we filmed the first season
of The Office was very long, it was over an hour,
'cause I lived in the San Fernay
and we shot in Culver City.
And if you live in Los Angeles or have ever been here,
that is a very long commute in the morning--
- Yes.
- And I wanted to, quote-on-quote, get in characte.
So, I wanted to pretend like I was driving in Scranton,
so I wanted some Sounds of Scra.
- Did you like, research what people were listening to
in Scranton?
Like, how do you know these are the sounds of Scranton?
- You know what? I really don't.
I wanna say, I made a lot of ass
and I kind of went back to my college days,
and I had some classic rock.
- [Angela] Mm-hmm.
- And a little bit of Garth Bro,
but now that I'm saying it, I re
I don't really know what East Coast people listen to.
I was so whatever, it put me in a head space.
- Okay, well, I just want you t,
I want the Sounds of Scranton on our website--
- I'm gonna look for it, I bet I still have it.
It's gonna be embarrassing.
- If it was a CD, I wanna know, did you make a little cover
and write out each song?
Or did you type 'em out and pri?
Is there a photo?
What's the cover of the CD?
- The cover of the CD is a collage of different pictures
that remind me of Scranton.
- Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no!
No, wait, please stop, please s.
These aren't photos of people o?
- No.
- They're images of Scranton that you got from the computer,
you got from the internet and it's a collage?
And so, they're photos of Scrann
and it's called, Sounds of Scra?
- Right, and I would listen to it on my drive
to get into character of Pam!
- Oh my God.
- And then I would go to work.
- This is all why I love you.
This is why I love you, because I wanna be best friends
with a person that prints images of places in Scranton
and makes a collage, and then makes up a CD, oh my God.
- As I'm telling this story, now it's occurring to me
that when you live in a city, you don't make a tribute CD
of the city you live in.
I lived in St. Louis my whole l,
and I never drove around with a,
Sounds of St. Louis.
- Well, I'm going to now, Sounds of Los Angeles.
It's gonna happen. - [Jenna] Oh, let's make it.
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This is to me, like, the quintel
accounting department dynamic.
- Here's the thing that I learnd
really quickly on this show,
and I learned it from our B camera operator, Matt Sohn.
Matt was like, "Ang, if you guys have bits, make 'em quick,
and they have a chance of getting in the show."
And so, we had this moment where we were all walking back
to our desks, and Oscar and I kind of improvised this moment
where I'm like, "Did you talk t"
And he's like, "What was that?"
And then we kind of just had this chit chat on the way,
and our B camera operator got i.
And he was like, "Guys, if you tighten that up,
it'll make it in, I think, if you tighten it up."
So we did, we had this back and forth, and then of course,
like I had no idea that Brian
was already walking up behind u.
And so he was like, "What are you talking about?"
So I was just like, "Nothing, K"
And it just sort of crystallized that, you know like,
Oscar and I have this weird sor,
office, dysfunctional marriage, in a way, you know?
And that Kevin is like, our child that we're like,
"Just stay out of it, leave him out of it."
And it was just so fun that it made it in for us,
that was really fun.
- How did that dynamic come tog?
'Cause I know you guys would have to get stuck
in the background, we've establ.
But for real, you did.
And I know you guys are all comedic improv performers.
- Well, Oscar and I had done a show together, you know.
We met well before The Office,
I've talked about this before,
we had done a sketch show together called, Hot Towel.
And we've known each other a lo,
we'd done the Groundlings toget.
And I think we just naturally fell into step
with one another.
I knew my character was always .
- [Jenna] That was your default.
- My baseline is, I was always d
and then just the way that Brian did Kevin,
he seemed a little bit like, th.
- [Jenna] Yeah, he was, yeah.
- So pretty much, if I had anyone I could go to
about something, it was Oscar.
And I was always annoyed and I was always going to him,
and he never had the answers I .
And then I just didn't want to even talk to Kevin.
So, that just sort of like, came about naturally, I think,
and Oscar and I just picked up on all those cues.
- Well, I love that Greg and ths
gave our camera operators the license to pick up moments
that they hadn't even been dire.
- To pick up.
- Yeah, like they would keep one eye open on everything
that was happening in the background, and especially Matt,
his job was to catch reactions
and to catch these little moments that were happening
off of the main action.
And Matt went on to direct episodes in later seasons.
- Yes, he did.
And our director of this episode, Ken Whittingham
was so great about letting us
have that creative opportunity.
So, when he saw us do that as we walked away,
he was like, "Yeah, yeah, keep doing that."
And so, he encouraged us and then, you know,
we used to joke that we would have just kept going
and going.
And so, I'd be like, I would say all the time to Brian
and Oscar, "It's not our show guys, it's not our show,
it's not our show."
And then we had this whole runnd
that we did for years, there was an actual spinoff called,
Los Contadores, Oscar, Angela, .
And it lived on Telemundo.
That was our spinoff.
- Angela, that is actually a really good idea for a spinoff.
The Accountants.
- [Angela] The Accountants! - And Creed.
- And creed, The Accountants an.
- Well, I just think Creed has to work in every Office
somehow, right?
Like, he's always there.
- I actually would like Creed to be in every project--
- I need a phone number, I need to call at NBC--
- Who are you calling? - I don't know,
I think this is gold!
- I actually would like Creed to just show up
in every project I have for the rest of my life.
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