California will bring out both the best, and worst, in the Dunder Mifflinites simply by being the big man on a small campus. "He always feels like the alpha male in the room, which is really exciting, especially because everyone on our show is funny with an alpha male," co-executive producer B.J. Novak says. "He's extremely intelligent, almost too intelligent. He's an intellectual, and we've never had an intellectual in the Scranton office before so it's very funny to hear him talk to people."
Fittingly, Dwight (Rainn Wilson) will feel threatened by the new boss. "Dwight is extremely torn around Robert California because, on the one hand, Dwight wants to be an alpha male, on the other hand, Dwight admires nothing more than an alpha male who will put him in his place, which is what Michael Scott was to him," Novak says. "So Dwight is torn between loyalty and competition."
The three front-runners? Darryl (Craig Robinson), Dwight and Andy (Ed Helms), Novak says, adding: "Those became the three leading candidates in our minds when it came time to shoot."
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The Office - Season 8 - Who's the new manager?
2 Aug 2011
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I'm calling Darryl.
ReplyDeleteI hope to god it isn't Daryl. He's never been even remotely interesting, let alone funny. I think he'd be better off like he was in the first five seasons, where he only made limited appearances.
ReplyDeleteAnd about the other news about the producers bringing in new actors long-term......WHY??!! The already existing cast is big enough as it is (and some of them have barely ever gotten more than five seconds of screentime per episode).
I'm thinking Daryl... I'm hoping for Andy or Jim...
ReplyDeleteGuess all will be revealed soon!
I'm disappointed that Creed isn't keeping the job.
ReplyDeleteReally, I always loved Daryl and thought he wasn't shown enough and was perfect for the boss once Michael left.
ReplyDeleteIn reality, it should be Jim. Jim already had the job once. Jim only willingly moved back to sales because of the uncapped commission. A sales cap was put in place during season 7. Jim wants to advance in the company. There's no reason for him to stick in sales when he could get a higher paying job elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that Dwight's character really works well as manager, if I thought that he would become manager I would have to stop watching the show it just wouldn't flow right anymore. Darryl would also be another bad choice, whoever they choose has to have a similar personality to Michael Scott and he just doesn't have it. Andy is the only real choice from the list in my mind.
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