‘The Office’ star Angela Kinsey reveals why she was excluded from Dwight’s axed spinoff
nypost.com“The Office,” revealed that she was excluded from a spinoff show about Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), which was in the works before NBC pulled the plug.Kinsey, 53, explained what happened on the most recent episode of her podcast with fellow “The Office” co-star Jenna Fisher, “Office Ladies,” released on Aug.
14.Fisher explained that the Season 9 episode “The Farm” was filmed in 2012 and was supposed to be a backdoor pilot to a spinoff about Dwight.
Kinsey, whose chilly character, Angela, was Dwight’s love interest, said that Wilson took her aside to drop the bombshell. “He said, ‘Angela, I’d love to talk to you about ‘The Farm.’ And I went to his trailer on my lunch break, and he said, ‘Listen,’ he said, ‘Ang, I’m gonna do this show,’” she recalled.
Kinsey continued, “And he said, ‘You know, I sort of saw your character like Lilith for the ‘Frasier’ spin-off, you know, where Lilith is the mother of Frasier’s child, and she pops in every once in a while.
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