John Krasinski nearly ruined his chances of playing Jim Halpert when he sat in the waiting room before his audition and told the showrunner to his face that American remakes of British shows are generally terrible.

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John Krasinski nearly ruined his chances of playing Jim Halpert when he sat in the waiting room before his audition and told the showrunner to his face that American remakes of British shows are generally terrible. His remarkable lack of a filter and complete inability to recognize the creator of the exact show he was trying to get hired for perfectly encapsulated the smug, mildly arrogant energy required to look directly into a camera for nine seasons. Fortunately, Greg Daniels found the accidental insult charming rather than fireable, allowing Krasinski to spend the next decade making millions of dollars by simply shrugging and smirking at a documentary crew while his boss did something incredibly stupid