That One Time When Angela Kinsey Saved The Office From a Very Controversial Joke

Summary:

• The 2000s’ cult sitcom show The Office is mostly known for its unhinged jokes that the characters make about each other on a daily basis, but several lines like this eventually never made it to the series.
• According to Angela Kinsey, who portrayed Angela in The Office, she had to confront one of the creators to remove one line that was pretty stereotypical about one religious matter.
• The fact that the joke was removed from the script was a huge relief for the actress as she felt that her character wasn’t supposed to be that mean.

The 2005’s mockumentary sitcom show The Office is surely one of the best examples of chemistry formed among an absolutely random group of people whose personalities almost never match in anything.

Yet the strategy worked out in its best way bringing the television history’s best jokes to the screen — though not all of them actually made it to the series from the script pages.

Angela Kinsey, who portrayed Angela Martin throughout the whole show, has recently revealed that she didn’t feel like some of the jokes that she had to say were appropriate enough, so the actress was brave enough to intervene.

It’s fair to say that many of her character’s most explicit features were actually borrowed from Kinsey herself, but got pretty much exaggerated — like, for example, her religiousness or her unconditional love for cats.

At some point the former went a bit too far, according to the actress herself. While talking to her co-star Rainn Wilson on his podcast Soul Boom, Kinsey admitted that she was persistent enough to make the writers change their mind about one particular joke.

In one of the episodes, Angela was supposed to be “super judge-y” towards her colleague Oscar and, though the actress didn’t cite the whole line, she clarified that the joke had initially mentioned Jesus — which raises a thought whether the line had something to do with religious superstitions given the fact that Oscar was the only gay character in the show.

Raised with a “very warm, meaningful relationship” with the church herself, Kinsey didn’t feel like she was able to deliver a line like this in a series watched by millions of viewers across the world. According to the actress, she shared her feelings with one of the creators Greg Daniels and he eventually took the joke out of the script.

The final decision turned out to be a big relief for Kinsey who always thought her Angela had “more depth than that”.

Source: Soul Boom