Wendy McLendon-Covey

And I was like, oh, that's awesome.

I'm hoping to audition for them as well.

And he said, yeah, it's for this part.

I guess Pam goes to art school and she's going to meet some guy at art school.

And I was like,

Uh-huh.

Oh, good, good, good.

And in my head, I knew what Mindy had said.

And we hadn't finalized anything yet.

And you know how these things work in the business.

They'll keep auditioning, even if they have an offer out to someone or in conversation with someone, they'll keep auditioning other people.

I'm usually on the auditioning end of that, where I'm throwing an audition down a hole rather than, you know, being the one that's actually being considered.

But this was one of those rare times.

So as soon as the offer came through officially, I...

I accepted immediately.

But yes, I did audition for The Office a time or two with Alison Jones, but I didn't get those roles.

And then this came through and it was just an offer.

It was a really...

sort of spectacular odd marriage between the shows because we ended up, like you say, our groups, because the way the SAG Awards work in particular is the entire cast of each show is seated together at one or two tables, depending on the size of the group.

And, you know, and then at the party, there's usually like there's this corner for Mad Men and this area for The Office.