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One on One With...Angela Kinsey of "The Office" I promised you interviews and I have delivered. Here's the first installment of "One-On-One" with the adorably bubbly Angela Kinsey... Well first off congratulations on being a new mom! Thank you. It's awesome. Steve Carell told me that every cliché would be true and it absolutely is. It's the happiest I've ever been. The most tired I've ever been and really the most fulfilled. I know you spent most of your childhood in Indonesia. What was that like? I sort of thought everyone grew up in Indonesia cause I moved there when I was two years old so I didn't realize it was so different until I came stateside when I was 14. But it was an unbelievable childhood and I realized that as I got older. Like on a field trip, we wouldn't go to the local zoo. We would go to an orangutan sanctuary. When you came back to the states, how was that transition? Horrible! You know 14, junior high, is really tough anyway you look at it. I mean braces, training bra, weird hair. You're trying to figure out who you are and then you move to a whole new country. Oh and I didn't have television so I didn't know pop culture references and most of my friends were European so the music I listened to was completely different. I was a complete fish out of water. But I had always done theater and was always the one to tell a joke or something so that's really when I think comedy became my best friend. As long as I could make a joke or something, as the new kid, that's how I made friends. Well where are you from originally? I was born in Louisiana and my dad is a drilling engineer. My family is from Texas and Louisiana. My dad was working for an oil company in Louisiana and there's lots of oil in Louisiana so we got sent there. We would come back to the states during the summers and split our time between Texas and Louisiana. So it was a really interesting mix of cultures. So at what point did you realize you wanted to act? My mom tells this story and she swears it's true. When I was 4 years old my sister and I were sitting together and she asked my sister Janet what she wanted to be when she grew up and Janet said "a dump truck driver." My Uncle Carl at the time was driving dump trucks and she thought it was the coolest thing. Then my mom turned to me and asked and I said "Carol Burnett." From when I was a kid I was writing little skits and was getting my mom and dad to act out little parts with my sisters and my friends. I was always wanting to put on a show. Was your family very supportive as you started to get serious about acting? You know I think the thing that was hard for mom and dad was having their youngest, their baby, move so far away. If I could have had a really successful acting career in television right there in Archer City, Texas, they would have loved it. But they've always been very supportive but moving so far away was really hard for them. How did you actually get your foot in the door? What was your big break? I feel like you really have a lot of little breaks that sort of add up. When I first moved out here, (Los Angeles) I booked one of my first auditions and it was just like a one line and that sort of gave me that moment of hey I'm doing the right thing. I started performing improv at Improv Olympic Theater. I started doing shows, an agent saw me, signed me and then started doing commercials and little TV shows. I became the gal that people would see and say "You look so familiar. Oh, you're the girl from that potato chip commercial." I just kept performing. As long as I was I felt fulfilled. What was 1-800-DENTIST? Oh, my goodness. I was doing a sketch comedy show and I needed a job. My friend Mario was like "Hey, I work at this place and the hours are really flexible." I was like what is it and he said "Oh you talk to people about their teeth." So I worked there for a while and it's just you know one of those crazy jobs you have in your '20s. On the highlight reel of your acting career, where does working with Joey Lawrence fit in and did you ever get to "Woah" with him? I'd put it in the top 5. I never got to "Whoa." I think he buried it and was trying to move past it. So in 2005, you get cast in "The Office." How did that come about? Greg Daniels was really looking first for actors that weren't very well known so I fit the bill there. And also for people who had a good improv background. I went in and auditioned for the role of Pam. I was really happy with my audition. But I do remember everyone laughing at a moment when I was pretty sure that it was supposed to be a vulnerable moment. It's when Michael fake fires Pam and Pam tears up and calls him a jerk. So I did that and it got a big laugh. I later found out that they thought I was great but they thought I might have a little too much spunk, a little too feisty to play Pam. And it works cause Jenna (Fischer) really possesses that vulnerability. So I didn't get it but they told me they thought I could be in the world of the show and that if it went to series I might get called back. And then there was a part in the accounting department. They didn't know much about the role but they know she was a little bit prissy so they brought me in and I got that role. What's it like to work with a cast like you have on "The Office"? There are many times where I'm in the middle of a scene and I want to stop and pinch myself. To do a scene with Steve Carell or Rainn Wilson, they're just gonna commit and connect you 100 percent and to do that dance with them is such a privilege. And I have to say that about everyone in the cast. I mean Jenna (Fischer) and John (Krasinski). If I get do a scene with Oscar (Nunez) and Brian (Baumgartner) in accounting, it's like I won the lottery. It's amazing start to finish. The character Angela and the real Angela seem worlds apart. How hard is it for you to play a character that is so different from yourself? Well yeah we are really different but we have some things in common too. Like, I have a drawer in my office that's just for ribbon and tissue paper. I'm one of those people. But then the rest of my house might be a wreck. And Briam Baumgartner likes to say that I'm bossy so there are some similarities I guess. But it's fun to play someone so different. I'm not very confrontational so its fun to play someone who is judgmental like she is. It's almost liberating to let yourself go there. I know you can't give too much away but with the way last season ended, what can we look forward to for Dwangela? I can say that things will get a lot more complicated. Source |
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