Happy anniversary to the Halperts!
Considering how muchThe Officestill seems to be in our everyday life (thanks, Netflix!
Yes, a horse, that’s what we said.
It was just this natural chemistry that flowed between us, and we just locked into those characters together.
I knew I had the right partner.
Our scenes together were always my favorite part of an episode.
And it just became very important that we really nailed those moments.
You could feel how important it was to so many people.
KALING:I remember being assigned the wedding and thinking, “Wow, this is a doozy.”
[Laughs] A few days later, Greg Daniels said he’d love to write it with me.
KALING:It was a pretty fresh slate.
DANIELS:We wanted it to be like theOfficemovie.
One of the great things about it was seeing the characters outside.
It really opened up a lot of fun story pitches for all the different characters.
And a wedding is a classic comedy setting; like, all Shakespeare comedies end with a wedding.
KALING:The episode was very ambitious for us.
FISCHER:I felt way more pressure with their first kiss and engagement.
I felt like the wedding was going to be a celebration.
When Jenna did that in the show, it was awesome.
FEIG:The original ending was a big controversy.
And she’s like, “What are you doing?
No, I want to get married.”
She sends him away, so he has to ride his horse back out of the church.
DANIELS:I was really committed to the horse for the longest time.
Then we got to the table read and I was the last defender of the horse.
FEIG:We were all like, “This is insane.
you’ve got the option to’t send a horse over the falls.”
And Greg was like, “No, it would be really funny.”
DANIELS:I finally backed down and took the horse out.
FEIG:This was right when that viral video came out.
It was so popular that we went, “Let’s just re-create that.”
It was a real last-minute addition.
KALING:That video was so joyous and fun.
From the perspective of the audience, that’s Jim and Pam’s family.
FISCHER:Since I don’t dance, that was a rehearsal that happened without me being there.
And these moments happened sometimes onThe Office.
That was similar for me with this dance scene.
I went up to the front to watch it and I was actually crying during the first rehearsal.
It’s so sweet and joyous.
I think it was a stroke of genius.
But you see that weirdo that works in the cubicle next to you every single day.
FEIG:Honestly, that was a really tough shoot.
We were in the church on a really tight schedule and I had like half an hour.
I remember being so happy and in tears while it was going on.
DANIELS:It had a great feeling on the set.
It had a beautiful feeling, almost like it was a wedding for the cast.
There was a very beautiful sense of merging fiction and reality.
[Laughs]
FISCHER:It just felt very special.
I mean, we got excited to film in the parking lot.
KALING:Going on the actual boat was so special.
It was just me, Jenna, John, Paul, the script supervisor, and the cameraman.
It was very guerrilla-style filmmaking.
FEIG:That was very challenging because it’s very wet.
We went in the morning and shot it and it was completely dry.
It worked fine, but we thought we’d take another crack at it in the afternoon.
That’s the one we used because suddenly it was soaking wet.
It was hard, everything was blowing around.
We recorded the sound but we knew we weren’t going to use much.
It just felt real and pure.
KRASINSKI:That day was insane!
We had to get it all done in a matter of an hour or so.
On top of it all, I had the flu.
DANIELS:The number of 14-year olds who are into the show is insane.
To see other people embrace it and feel about it the same way I did is really special.
It makes me so happy.
It really does deeply resonate with people and is meaningful beyond just being entertaining.
I feel honored and love that the show is still out there and making people laugh.
KRASINSKI:To be honest, it’s hard to compute.
There’s no cheating, there’s no crazy weird breakups and makeups.
They just gently weather the storm.
It was a little bit of a romantic fairy tale.
But I really have to give credit to John Krasinski’s performance.
In our second episode, Jim goes after a big sale and Dwight ends up stealing it from him.
KALING:Their relationship was the best example of what could happen when you go to work every day.
