‘The Office’ actress Angela Kinsey reveals the ‘judge-y’ Christian jokes she refused to say on the hit show

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The Office” star Angela Kinsey opened up in a recent podcast appearance about the few times her own faith caused her to speak out against certain jokes made on the popular sitcom.Kinsey, who played Angela Martin on the long-running show, talked about her Christian faith and her years on “The Office” with former co-star Rainn Wilson on the April 23 episode of his podcast, “Soul Boom.”Wilson, who played Dwight on the show, asked Kinsey what it was like playing an “uptight Christian” when she was raised having a “very warm, meaningful relationship” with her faith and the church.Kinsey explained how there were a few times when a joke was written for her character that she felt pigeonholed Christians and didn’t really reflect their views.In one episode during the show’s third season, she recalled her character being given a line she felt was “super judge-y” against Oscar, a gay character on the show.Kinsey said she felt the line didn’t reflect something a true Christian would say, and talked to “Office” producer and showrunner Greg Daniels about it.“Yeah, actually, there were one or two times in which there would be a joke written for her that I thought was just really stereotypical, maybe one note.

I like to think of her as a full, well-rounded person. I do remember I remember there was a particular storyline between Angela and Oscar, where Angela was being super judge-y.

I never went up to Greg about any joke, but there was a joke at Oscar’s expense, and I went up to Greg [Daniels] and I was like, ‘I can’t.'”Kinsey said she recalled the character invoking Jesus in the line and felt bothered by it.“I just was like, ‘I don’t feel good about it.