Jenna Fischer always had great hope for John Krasinski while starring together in NBC sitcom The office.
The 51 -year -old actress appeared in a recent episode of Fly on the wall with Dana Carvey.
During the interview, the conversation changed to its old The office Costa, 45, and the host asked Fischer if he was surprised to see Krasinski Direct 2018 A quiet placeStarring his wife, British actress Emily Blunt.
“It was a surprise for none of us,” Fischer said in the program. “I would always tell John: ‘I think you’re going to be like our Tom Hanks.”
Fischer referred to how Hanks’s popularity replaced his 1980 comedy Friends of the Breast Although the two season series is “a very famous successful television show.”
“But, as, when you think of Tom Hanks, you don’t think about chest friends,” he said about the 68 -year -old academy award winner. “You think about everything else that Tom Hanks has done.”
Then he remembered to have told Krasinski: “‘I think The office It will be your Friends of the Breast. As, you go to places. ”
Fischer also found Krasinski “very humble in that way”, since he would find the comparison of the “very shameful” hacks for him “while he had Hanks in greater consideration.
“He doesn’t want to be, as, worried like this. But I was, no. It’s true, Lord,” added Krasinski, who was named the sexiest man of people.
In May 2024, NBC announced a spin -off of The officeentitled The paper.