Angela Kinsey Shares How 'The Office' Folks Would've Handled Working From Home
Angela Kinsey can imagine how the characters of “The Office” would’ve handled working from home as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
“It would be very different from house to house,” the actor told HuffPost while promoting her partnership with Staples’ “Thank A Teacher” initiative. “I think Angela Martin (her character) would be very efficient, and I think she would probably enjoy the extra time with her cats. She has so many.
“I think Kevin (played by Brian Baumgartner) would be a hot mess. It would be like me trying to keep all three kids focused on school all day ― just getting Kevin to do any work from home would be very difficult.”
Kinsey has a 12-year-old daughter, Isabel, with her ex-husband Warren Lieberstein, whose brother Paul played Toby on “The Office.” She also helps raise her stepsons Cade, 10, and Jack, 12, with her husband, Josh Snyder.
She continued, “I think Michael Scott (Steve Carell’s character) would be sad because he wouldn’t have his audience. He loved to play to the room. It would be interesting to watch them all do it.”
Kinsey recalled that she sometimes pitched the show’s writers on the idea of seeing more of the characters’ home lives.
“I remember I’d be like, ‘I would just love to see what Creed’s home life is like!” she said. (Creed Bratton played a fictionized version of himself.) “Can we see an episode where we go and see where everyone lives? But that’s not really what ‘The Office’ is. ‘The Office’ is in the office.”
Through her partnership with Staples (a competitor of the fictional Dunder Mifflin company in “The Office”), Kinsey is working to recognize a group of people who helped ease the quarantine burden for countless families: teachers. The office supply brand is holding its second annual #ThankATeacher contest, in which people can nominate educators to receive $5,000 in Staples Gift Cards.
Appreciation for teachers runs in Kinsey’s family. Her...
