“THE OFFICE ”SERIES WELCOMES NEW HIRES FROM “STAR WARS ”AND “WHITE LOTUS”
Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore are the first two actors attached to the news series from Greg Daniels and Michael Korman.
The Office is hiring two new employees.
Entertainment Weekly has learned that Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore are the first two actors attached to star in a new Office show from the U.S. sitcom's creator Greg Daniels and Nathan for You's Michael Korman. The Hollywood Reporter was first to report the news.
Gleeson played General Hux in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and led films like Ex Machina, About Time, and Frank. He also played Bill Weasley in the two-part finale of the Harry Potter series and had supporting roles in films like The Revenant, Brooklyn, and Never Let Me Go.
Impacciatore played Valentina, the manager of a Sicilian resort, in the second season of The White Lotus on HBO. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the series, but ultimately lost to her costar Jennifer Coolidge. Impacciatore has primarily acted in Italian-language film and television projects like Disokkupati, 7 Women and a Murder, There’s No Place Like Home, and The Last Kiss, though she also played St. Veronica in The Passion of the Christ.
Reps for Gleeson and Impacciatore did not immediately respond to EW's requests for comment.
EW has learned that the Office project is not being described as a reboot or a revival, but a new series focusing on new characters working in a new office that is likely set in the same universe as the original show, allowing for potential crossover with the original Dunder Mifflin staff.
The mockumentary-style sitcom based on the British series of the same name, followed the employees of a Scranton, Penn., paper company. It ran on NBC from 2005 to 2013, earning 42 Emmy nominations and five wins, including Outstanding Comedy in 2006. The ensemble included Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, Brian Baumgartner, Ed Helms, Kate Flannery, Leslie David Baker, Angela Kinsey, Oscar Nunez, Creed Bratton, Craig Robinson, Paul Lieberstein, Ellie Kemper, and Phylllis Smith.
Earlier this week, Wilson, Fischer, Robinson, Baumgartner, Flannery, and Bratton reunited for a six-minute AT&T commercial set in an office.
Daniels expressed concern about reviving the series in 2019. "It was such a perfect thing that I would hesitate to open it up," he told EW at the time. "We got the chance to end it the way we wanted to end it. It wasn't like we were interrupted in the middle of a run or something. So in a sense it's completely an artistic whole." The news that the new Office series is a continuation of the show's universe but not a revival with the original cast presumably keeps Daniels' hesitations at bay.
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