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But he did convince this 'Star Wars' actor to star in the show Steve Carell will not appear in The Office spin-off series, but he did convince Domnhnall Gleeson to star in the Peacock show. The two actors previously worked together in FX’s 2022 limited series The Patient , which earned Carell a Screen Actors Guild award nomination. Gleeson, meanwhile, was nominated at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards.

“I know Domhnall Gleeson – who I did ‘The Patient’ with – is going to be one of the leads. I know that for sure,” Carell told Jimmy Fallon during a recent interview on The Tonight Show . “He’s an excellent actor.



And he actually called me and asked, you know, ‘Should I do this? Is this something...

Did you enjoy it?’ I said, ‘Of course.’” Domhnall Gleeson stars in The Office spin-off series. Credit: Getty Images Gleeson is leading the The Office spin-off alongside The White Lotus Season 2 star Sabrina Impacciatore.

Production on the new series is expected to begin in July. As previously reported, the show is not a reboot The Office , and will instead focus on a new set of characters in the same universe . Greg Daniels, who developed the American version of the series, is co-creating the new show with Michael Koman.

The official longline from Peacock states: “The documentary crew that immortalised Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher t.

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