Actress Dakota Johnson recently reflected on her one-time cameo in the hit NBC comedy “The Office,” saying she wasn’t happy with the result.
The 34-year-old star said she was excited to get a part on one of her favorite shows, but disappointed with how little screen time she had in the series finale, which aired in 2013.
“That was honestly the worst time of my life,” Johnson said during a Wednesday appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”
She continued, “I love that show so much, and they were like, ‘Do you want to be in the series finale?’ and I was like, ‘Of course,’ thinking that I’d show up for, like, half a day. I was there for two weeks and I’m barely in the f***ing show.”
Meyers asked if the cast of “The Office” was “super sad” about the show ending.
“They were sad and also, like, there were weird dynamics that had been going on for the last 10 years,” Johnson explained.
“Some people didn’t speak to each other,” she said. “And I’m coming in like, ‘So excited to be here!’ No one wanted to talk to me. No one gave a f***. I was like, in the background of all of these scenes, faxing things.”
During a previous interview, Johnson had explained that she was included in the finale as a means to set up a potential spinoff series that never happened.
“If everything else just falls away, maybe you’ll find me in that Office spinoff that no one wants to watch,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “I don’t know in what world that would’ve worked for me creatively. I have found that when something is successful, even when there’s nothing left, they just keep trying to wring out the towel of story. Sometimes things need to end when they’re supposed to end.”
Rumors of a remake of the popular series have been circulating for years. A female-led version of the show is currently in development in Australia. “The Office” is based on a U.K. comedy by the same name starring Ricky Gervais.