Ed Helms starred as Andy Bernard on The Workplace for seven seasons earlier than the present got here to an finish in 2009. However will his character be making a return within the follow-up sequence, The Paper, which started manufacturing final 12 months?
“I’ve zero intel on that, I’m sorry to say,” Helms stated on the Tuesday, April 29, episode of The View. “And I additionally don’t know but if Andy will probably be making an look. I haven’t heard. Nobody’s referred to as.”
Nonetheless, he stated he “hopes” to carry his character again, if attainable. “I’m simply gonna float that vitality on the market proper now,” the actor added. “Greg Daniels is making this present. It’s gonna be nice. It’s gonna be unimaginable.”
Up to now, the one forged member from The Workplace who’s confirmed for The Paper is Oscar Nuñez, who will probably be reprising his position as Oscar Martinez. In any other case, the Peacock sequence will comply with a brand new workplace with new characters. Nonetheless, will probably be based mostly in the identical fictional universe as The Workplace.
Helms additionally addressed the group chat he’s in along with his former costars from The Workplace. “It’s completely non-public and I’m not allowed to speak about it,” he joked at first.
Nonetheless, he ultimately added, “It’s form of a ravishing factor. The present ended a bunch of years in the past, however all of us have this unimaginable shared expertise and each now and again somebody will simply ship photos of their youngsters or simply form of a message of assist [if] any person’s going by one thing. It’s actually fairly beautiful.”
The Hangover star ended the group chat dialog by joking, “Often, in fact, Creed [Bratton] will publish loopy photos of himself.” When Pleasure Behar questioned whether or not they have been “bare pictures,” he added, “Not bare, however …”
The Paper stars Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore. Though manufacturing started in July 2024, a premiere date has not been set but.
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