“Individuals didn’t like me,” Jones mentioned of her time on the present as Karen, who served as a love curiosity for John Krasinski’s Jim.
Rashida Jones is reflecting on her exit from The Workplace.
Whereas showing on the Good Dangle podcast together with her Parks and Rec co-star Amy Poehler, Jones dished on her temporary look on the beloved NBC comedy.
Jones joined the present in season three as Karen Filippelli, a love curiosity for John Krasinski’s Jim, after he was transferred to Dudner Mifflin’s Stamford, Connecticut department. Whereas she had a recurring function in that season, she says she wasn’t precisely beloved by the followers, particularly these delivery Jim and Pam (Jenna Fischer).
“I had accomplished a yr on The Workplace and so they let me go, which made sense. It made sense,” she mentioned.
Jim and Karen’s preliminary flirtation became a romance, resulting in a clumsy love triangle with Pam when the 2 characters needed to switch again to the primary workplace in Scranton, Pennsylvania following a merger.
“You had such a tricky job there, as a result of all people wished Jim and Pam, after which guess who reveals up? A really likable, cool… and everybody was like, ‘Oh no, wait,'” Poehler famous.
“It didn’t really feel that manner,” Jones replied. “Individuals didn’t like me. Like, followers weren’t about it.”
Jones would go on to return few extra instances, nevertheless, in seasons 4, 5 and 7 — although Jim and Karen’s relationship was short-lived.
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Within the present’s season 4 premiere, it is revealed that Jim broke up with Karen after studying that Pam nonetheless had feeling for him within the third season finale, and Jones’ character left the Scranton workplace.
Whereas the followers had been “not about it,” Jones mentioned the present needed to “create pressure” for Jim and Pam “for a relationship to be earned later.”
“So, I used to be the third level within the triangle. It is high quality,” she quipped.
See the place the remainder of The Workplace forged is now, 20 years after the sequence premiered, within the gallery under!
