While undoubtedly fodder for an extra juicy, albeit heartbreaking, installment of The Office, actor John Krasinski ultimately vetoed the concept, refusing to partake in the makeout session in what he says is the “only time” he remembers “putting my foot down” while working on the show.
“I remember saying things that I never thought I’d say before, like, ‘I’m not going to shoot it,’” he recalled of learning his character was set to smooch a Dunder Mifflin employee that was notably not Pam. “I remember Paul Lieberstein was in the room, who I think was very much into it. He was like, ‘No, you’ll do it.’ Not in an aggressive way, but it was like, he saw the benefit of doing it.”
Despite the urging of his costar and the show’s creative team, Krasinski stuck to his guns, refusing to do the scene. “I remember saying to Greg, ‘My feeling is there is a threshold with which you can push our audience. They are so dedicated. We have shown such great respect to them. But there’s a moment where if you push them too far, they’ll never come back. And I think that if you show Jim cheating, they’ll never come back,’” he explained, an argument that apparently resonated with the writer’s room.
However, this wasn’t the only change Jim and Pam’s relationship faced throughout the series. According to Baumgartner, the U.S. iteration of The Office was the first to treat the pair’s romance as a subplot.
“One of the most interesting conversations, which also came from Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais, really had to do with the fact that they did something that had never been done before, which was they inverted the love story between Jim and Pam ,” Baumgartner told the Washington Post. “As opposed to it being central — which it is on every other television show — they inverted that into the background. Yet, that is an iconic love story that people are still talking about today,” he added.
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