Rashida Jones was at peace when it was time to clock out of labor for good.
On Tuesday’s episode of the “Good Hang” podcast, the actress, 49, obtained candid on briefly showing on “The Office” as Karen Filippelli, who was an worker of Dunder Mifflin’s Stamford department.
“I had done a year on ‘The Office’ and they let me go, which made sense. It made sense,” Jones informed host Amy Poehler, who the actress co-starred with on “Parks and Recreation” for seven seasons.
“You had such a tough job there, because everybody wanted Jim and Pam, and then guess who shows up? A very likable, cool… and everyone was like, ‘Oh no, wait,” the host replied.
Karen went face to face with Jenna Fischer’s Pam for Jim’s affection.
“It did not feel that way,” Jones rapidly said. “People did not like me. Like, fans were not about it.”
Karen first seems in episode 1 of Season 3 in 2006, when Jim (John Krasinski) has simply transferred from Scranton to the Stamford department.
The 2 flirt forwards and backwards till Jim dumps Karen within the season finale. In actual life, Jones and Krasinski, 45, briefly dated.
Jones now realizes that her character’s objective was to “create tension for the relationship” between Jim and Pam “to be earned later.”
“So I was the third point in the triangle. It’s fine. I accept it,” she informed Poehler, 53.
Jones returned to the sequence as Karen for 2 episodes in Season 4, one episode in Season 5, and finally for a last episode in Season 7.
When the final episode “Threat Level Midnight” aired in 2011, Jones was already in full swing as Ann Perkins on Season 3 of “Parks and Recreation.”
Jim O’Inheritor, who performed Jerry Gergich on “Parks and Rec,” spoke in regards to the connection between the 2 comedies in his 2024 memoir “Welcome to Pawnee.”
The actor, 63, wrote that “The Office” creator Greg Daniels initially created the seven-season sequence as a by-product of “The Office” tentatively titled “The Stamford Branch.”
Jones would have acted because the hyperlink between the 2 sequence if it got here to fruition.
Poehler revealed on her “Good Hang” podcast that she and Jones, who have been longtime pals previous to the present, have been each approached a couple of potential spinoff.
“We both were worried that we had taken each other’s part,” the “Mean Girls” actress stated.
When Poehler landed the lead position as Leslie Knope, she requested Jones to lunch to interrupt the information.
“‘I’m so sorry, they offered me the part,’” Poehler recalled saying. “Both of us thinking it was the same part I was on hold for, being created by a friend of ours.” However quickly after, Jones was supplied the a part of Ann Perkins.
