Rashida Jones was on The office For a while, not long. But it may not have even a good time either.
In the episode of Tuesday of Good hang Podcast, Jones reflected in his brief passage on The office As Karen Filippelli, employee of the Rival branch of Dunder Mifflin Stamford and also competes Jenna FischerPAM for the affection of John Krasinski‘S Jim. “I had done a year The office And they let me go, which made sense. It made sense, “Jones told the host Amy Poehlerwho would go to Costar with Jones on Parks and leisure for seven years.
“You had such a difficult job there, because everyone wanted Jim and Pam, then guess who presents himself? A very friendly, cool … And everyone was like” Oh no, wait, “replied Poehler, trying to strengthen Jones critical estimate of his time in sitcom NBC.
“It didn’t feel that,” Jones quickly cut. “People didn’t like me. As fans were not about it.”
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Karen appears for the first time in the first episode of DeskThird season. Jim has just transferred from the central location of the show, the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch, to the Stamford branch. Anxious to integrate, Jim is relieved when Karen roasted with playful his habit of looking at the camera. The obvious feelings of the pair for each other are transformed into a relationship that takes off almost, until Jim throws her without ceremony in the last episode of the season.
Jones now understands that his character worked to “create a tension for the relationship” between Jim and Pam “to be won later”.
“I was therefore the third point of the triangle. It’s good. I accept it,” she said.
Jones returned as Karen for two episodes of season 4, an episode of season 5, and made a final appearance in cameo in the episode of season 7 “Threat Level Midnight”. As this episode was broadcast in 2011, Parks and Rec was already in his third season.
Parks star Jim O’Heir discussed in the fact in His memories in 2024 Welcome to Pawnee that The office Creator Greg Daniels initially designed the show that would become Parks inasmuch as Desk temporarily entitled The Stamford branch. Jones would have been the link between the series.
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Poehler revealed Good hang That when she and Jones, whose friendship precedes the two series, learned that they were both approaching the potential spin-off, “we both fear having taken the part of the other”. When Poehler finally proposed the main role, Jones remembered that Poehler had asked him to have lunch and said: “” I am really sorry, they offered me the game. “We both think that it was the same part that I was waiting, created by one of our friends.”
The confusion was quickly eliminated, and the grief avoided when Jones was offered the role of Ann, allowing best friends out screen to play the best friends for the years to come.
You can look at the rest of the poehler interview with Jones on the Good hang Podcast above.