Jenna Fischer Exclusive Interview with ALIVE

The Office’s Jenna Fischer recently left the bright lights and horrible traffic of Los Angeles to spend some quality time back home in St. Louis, MO. While in town, Jenna was honored with the National Woman in the Arts Award which recognizes the success of those from St. Louis who contribute to the arts on a national level. Go Jenna!!

During her presumably busy trip home, Jenna found some time to sit down with ALIVE Magazine, a local St. Louis magazine geared to the fashionable hip trendsetters in the area. ALIVE gave Give Me My Remote a sneak peek at the great interview, which is now online for you to check out.

Here’s a little excerpt:

ALIVE: Do you and Pam share a lot of characteristics?

Jenna Fischer: I think Pam and I are both riddled with a lot of self-doubt, but I think the difference is that I’ve managed to overcome that. Certainly I would have been married to Jim already [laughing]. But Pam is able to tolerate a lot more than I am in terms of her jerky boss…I would have told that guy off a long time ago. She’s also a bit more mischievous than I am. But the things we look for in a man are pretty similar—good father, stable but adventurous, funny, a sense of humor—I think that the biggest thing that attracts Pam to Jim is his sense of humor and that’s certainly what attracted me to my husband.

ALIVE: You’re half of one of TV’s most talked-about “will-they-or-won’t-they” couples; people often compare Pam and Jim’s relationship to Ross and Rachel from “Friends.” Do you think they’ll end up together?

JF: I would either like to see them eventually get married and have kids and be meant to be, or it could be that they were meant to show one another who they’re meant to be with. I think that the really cool thing about our show is that it’s a documentary of these people’s lives in an office and the writers try not to create contrived situations [the show is scripted but the actors are encouraged to come up with alternate jokes]. It’s really rooted in being real first, so I always say nothing that you expect to happen is going to happen, because that’s just life—it’s kind of unexpected that way. But in my heart it does feel like Jim is Pam’s soul mate, so they’d have to do something pretty surprising for me to be convinced otherwise.

ALIVE: Do they ever have to do multiple takes because you’re cracking up at a funny scene?

JF: I laugh a lot—and I mess up the most takes either by laughing or sneezing. The editor was putting together the DVD and said he wants to insert a track just with all the takes I’ve messed up from sneezing because I have bad allergies. I have allergy pills hidden all over the place—in my bedroom, in my purse, in my trailer. [Ironically, cats are one of the things she’s allergic to.]

Click here to read the rest of ALIVE Magazine’s interview with Jenna Fischer