According to Paul Feig, it took till season two’s “Office Olympics” for Michael Scott to be depicted as somebody with humanity.

If you go by his espresso mug, Michael Scott is the world’s greatest boss. But for those who ask Jim or Pam or most definitely Toby, you’re going to get a really completely different reply. Ask Steve Carell himself, and he would possibly describe him in one of the best ways attainable: a lovable asshole.

While short-lived, the unique British model of The Office’s personal Michael Scott, David Brent, made his mark as perhaps the world’s worst boss, the kind of brash, conceited sort that you just wouldn’t need in command of you 5 days per week. And whereas Michael Scott would tackle a variety of these traits – particularly early on – he needed to be tailored for American audiences, lest viewers tune out.

As Paul Feig – who directed nice episodes like “Dinner Party” and “Niagara” – recalled, Steve Carell had develop into enormous by means of The Office and films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Thus, they needed to flip Michael Scott right into a extra likable determine. That resolution was made throughout season two’s “Office Olympics”, which Feig additionally directed. “It was the scene we were shooting when everybody was supposed to be working and they’re screwing off doing this thing. And in order to not get in trouble with Michael, they’re going to give him a gold medal. But we’re shooting it and Steve gets emotional. Steve as the character, ‘cause he’s had this terrible day. And so he starts like kind of crying, like a tear goes down his eye and we’re like, ‘Oh my God.’ And I’m going like, ‘Oh, do that again. Do that again. This is a great.’ And I think that was this moment of like, that’s him.”

This flip could not have helped Carell win an Emmy, however helped mark Michael Scott as somebody who really had depth and, when it got here all the way down to it, tried his greatest…nonetheless inept, infantile and inadvertently dangerous he may very well be. “He’s got a humanity about him and everybody figured out, ‘No, he’s not an asshole. He’s a misguided idiot who is an asshole because he’s trying to be funny.’ Right. So you go like, ‘Okay, he means well.’”

Through Michael Scott and his Dunder Mifflin staff, The Office remained probably the most rewatchable reveals in fashionable tv.

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