Sometimes your chums fromThe Officebecome the best friends of all.
Luckily, her formerOfficecostar (and currentOffice Ladiespodcast cohost)Angela Kinseywas there to talk her down.
Fischer recounted of that fateful call.
Jenna Fischer and Matt LeBlanc.Chris Haston/NBCU; NBCU Photo Bank
“And they said, ‘It’s worse than that, hun.’
And I was like, ‘What’s worse than that?’
They said, ‘It’s getting picked up, but without you.’
That’s what friends are for, Kinsey said.
“I didn’t want you to cut your hair that day,” Kinsey recalled.
“I said, ‘You know what?
Let’s pick a different day.
Let’s pick a different day to change your whole look.'”
“I got hired, I shot the pilot,” Fischer said.
“While I was there, the web link said they wanted more scenes with me.
I was like, ‘I am nailing it!’
More scenes means you’re doing a good job.
Well, I guess after we finished it, they showed it to focus groups.”
“And they didn’t like you?”
Kinsey asked, laughing.
They liked Fischer just fine.
It was the pairing of the woman fromThe Office, with the notoriously “How you doin’?”
single guy fromFriendsthat proved a difficult sell.
The chemistry doesn’t work between these two,'” Fischer said.
“That was the feedback they got.”
“They could only see you as Pam and Joey?”
“Yeah,” Fischer replied.
“So it wasn’t working for them that we got married and had a family.”
“Jenna’s a good actor.
She did a good job,” he said.
