Wendy McLendon-Covey

So, you know, looking at Jenna Fisher standing across me, John Krasinski is crumpled up into a ball under the table in that room reading his lines for the Bluetooth recording.

There was nowhere for him to hide in the room because it was a small conference room.

And the cameras, as you guys know, were moving all the time.

There was no safe space.

So he just hid under the desk.

Yes.

And I'm just mortified.

I'm like, well, this is it.

I'm never acting again, obviously, because Stephen Merchant's never going to cast me in anything.

Jenna and John think I'm absolutely out of my mind.

It was a stressful day.

It's all great now, but it was a stressful day.

That's right.

I love that movie.

And believe me, in the month or so following that,

my final day at the office and we had exchanged information because we, you know, it was clear we were gonna be friends.

My recollection is when you and Lee reached out to ask if I would come and do a table read for this movie that you guys were working on, it was both so exciting, but also such a relief that you had not written me off after that day.

Because it was just such a stressful, you know, you've had those days on a set where you feel like this is my last day on a set.

I'm never acting again.

Obviously, I'm garbage.