Kevin from The Office: A nothing role to something

Brian Baumgartner on how he got the part: “So I took a risk, and when I went in to the audition, I read those [lines] as though I were Kevin. At the end of the discussion someone said, ‘Why don’t we give him this other character?’ … And that’s how the part was won.”

When he finished, someone —- he thinks it was executive producer Greg Daniels —- asked him, “How did you do that?”

“I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘Well, it was like there was nothing happening but something was happening.’

How he did it was by performing all kinds of variable roles (including Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman”) in the theater for eight years after graduating from Southern Methodist University, where he majored in theater.

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