Melora Harden reveals the secret weapon the cast used. Office A comedy hit.
In a recent podcast episode of Still here Hollywood By Steve Kimtko, the actress opened up about filming comedy scenes for the sitcom.
“They’d do a thing where, we’d always do it the way it was written, and then they’d give us a bag of candy,” he said.
“They would call it a candy bag, and we could literally draw lines. It would just be little lines that were options that we could throw away if we wanted to.”
gave 17 again Starr said that the “Candy Bags” approach, which was half-formed from a bit of improvised improvisation, “was always something we did with scenes. Once we had it written, we’d play.”
Hardin, who played John Levison as a vice president of sales at Dunder Mifflin, also talked about improving scenes with Steve Carell. Their characters, Levison and Carell’s Michael, had an unlikely romantic relationship from seasons two to four.
“Most of my scenes were with Steve Carell,” he said in the podcast. “And working together, you know, Steve was great. I’d throw a straight ball one time, a curveball the next, and he’d send it right back.”
The 57-year-old artist further explained that they both had improv backgrounds and “so if you’re an actor who’s done improv and you work with other actors who’ve done a lot of improv, it’s really a lot.” It’s fun.”
In 2009, series creator Greg Daniels also explained the “candy bag” as a device where the writers used to leave extra dialogue in it for any actor to perform.
comedy sitcom series, Officeran away NBC From 2005 to 2013