Though The Office had loads of turnover, some followers are nonetheless curious why Dwight Schrute by no means bought the complete managerial remedy.
On a current episode of the Office Ladies rewatch podcast, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey defined why Rainn Wilson‘s character wasn’t featured on the finish of the title sequence when he lastly took over for Steve Carell‘s Michael Scott as supervisor of Dunder Mifflin.
After reaching out to David Rogers, who directed the ninth and remaining season’s penultimate episode ‘A.A.R.M.’, Fischer defined “that there was dialogue about including a Dwight-as-manager shot on the finish of this title sequence.”
She added, “However, finally, they by no means filmed something new for it, and right here is why: The principle purpose was they needed to make use of Pam and Jim kissing as the ultimate picture in the primary title for a number of episodes as a result of they felt that, at this level, the concept of who’s his supervisor had been eclipsed by the character’s private lives, they usually felt like the main target right here of those remaining episodes was extra about summing up Jim and Pam.”
Fischer’s Pam Beesly had an onscreen romance with co-worker Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), with the characters tying the knot in Season 6 and occurring to have children.
L.D. Baker, A. Kinsey, E. Kemper, C. Bratton, P. Smith, B. Shafer, Ok. Flannery, J. Fischer, J. Krasinski, M. Kaling, B.J. Novak, S. Carell, R. Wilson, B. Baumgartner, E. Helms and O. Nunez in The Workplace. (Chris Haston/NBC/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
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Rogers additionally famous to her that “they had been actually pressed for time, they usually actually didn’t have time to shoot a brand new little supervisor title with Dwight. And in addition there was a lot on this episode that they needed to make the primary titles actually quick anyway. So there have been type of three causes,” Fischer stated.
Tailored from the 2001-’03 UK sequence, The Workplace ran for 9 seasons on NBC from 2005 to 2013. In the meantime, a followup series is about at Peacock, and Prime Video is getting ready to launch an Australian Original adaptation of The Workplace on Oct. 18.
