Jenna Fischer

And I had a pretty specific take at that point.

And it wasn't Ricky Gervais's, you know, and I and I've told this story a million times that I chose not to watch the British version because I just didn't want that to influence whatever this version was going to be.

And because he was so he was clearly so great at it was such a distinctive character.

I didn't want to do an impression of him.

I watched like a minute of, just to get a sense of the tone of the show, sort of how dark and very dry, very dour, kind of bleak, which I loved.

I loved how still it was at times.

But his character was so specific, I thought, no, I can't because...

That's what I'll want to do.

I won't see it any other way.

And I think Greg agreed with that as sort of a template for doing it.

And we were definitely on the same page in terms of who this guy could be and could become.

And I, early on, I started thinking about an arc too, like where, where, because you hope, you know, you don't go in thinking this is just going to be a pilot or this is just going to be six episodes.

The hope is the character starts here and ends up way somewhere else.

There's no way of really knowing where a character is going to, to end in the last episode.

But yeah,

But I kind of, in my mind, I had a plan.

Because these characters, the hope was that all of these characters would change and evolve and grow.

And that's part of what's fun about watching a show, is to see progress in these characters.

So that was sort of the plan going in.

That was sort of the hope.