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Jenna Fischer’s No Stranger to Office Jobs: The popular actress says she’s had her fair share of boring office jobs. “Oh, more than I can say. That was how I earned my money as a struggling actor. I worked in various investment firms, medical facilities. I transcribed press tours. I transcribed the Television Critics Association Press Tour. That was my first job in LA. I sat in a hot little hotel room typing away listening to stuff, listening to actors be witty. It was awful.”
When the tables were turned and she was being interviewed for The Office during the Television Critics Association Press Tour, she really felt for the people who handled her old job. “I so wanted to send a huge fruit basket to all the transcribers saying been there and know what you're going through. It's smelly in there. They put like 12 people in a room this size with computers and you just sit and type away all day. It was brutal.
Actually at that press tour, I pretended to be sick one day when they had this Saturday Night Live party afterwards with all these SNL folks. I feigned sickness starting in the morning and I even sneaked into the bathroom and put a little yellow makeup under my eyes to make them look sunken in. I started coughing. I had this whole plan so I could leave at 5:00, so I could leave early. Then I went to my car, I changed into other clothes, put on makeup, I walked over to one of the limo drivers who had driven one of the stars to the show. I said, ‘Dude, could you just like drop me off at the front door?’ He dropped me off at the front door, I walked down the red carpet right into the SNL party and ran right into my boss. He fired me on the spot.”
Up Next – A Movie with John C Reilly: “I get to full on co-star in this movie with him and get to be like the girl, you know, that is holding her own hopefully with him because he's pretty amazing. It's basically a take-off on Walk the Line. It's a fictional music biopic and just sort of satires the crazy world of musicians. I play like a June Carter Cash to his Johnny Cash. I'm sort of that one woman who believes in him and stands by him through his drug abuse and his hits and his pitfalls. It spans from the ‘50s to the present. It's just like a crazy comedy. Judd Apatow is producing and Jake Kasdan is directing.”
Fischer will even get to do a little singing. “Yeah, I sing a duet. A country duet with John. I have not actually recorded my voice yet. I'm still in training. Who knows if I will be actually singing in this film. I'll be doing my own acting in the film though, for sure.”
