JENNA FISCHER
(Pam Beesly)
On Pam's awesomely strange tchotchke:
I think my favorite thing on my desk is that crappy weird plastic flower thing. What is that for? It's broken and still after three years I don't know what that's for. It doesn't hold anything. It's just like a decorative spray of plastic. It's weird, and it's totally impractical. If you hit it in the middle of a take it makes this clanky sound and ruins the take. I feel like, couldn't Pam throw that away someday? Someone should ask her, ''Okay, I've been wanting to know, WHAT IS THIS?'' I don't know. It was here when I got here. Maybe the other receptionist had it.
On the changes in Pam this season:
This year she takes her hair down. Literally — she doesn't wear it back in that clip anymore. She's dressing differently. Last year I think we had this idea that when she broke up with Roy, she was going to try and experiment, so we had, like, ''Low Pony Day.'' We had fashion-show-at-lunch. A couple headbands. But nothing really stuck. I think last year was for her to experiment, but like, in baby steps. She got her own place, and she painted it. I had this whole story: She would go home at night and buy a new wastebasket at Bed Bath and Beyond. Just little things where she was branching out. She took her art classes. But I think the big piece of her that was missing was the part where she had to actively follow her heart. It was one thing to break up with Roy, but the next step for her was making the move toward Jim. So I think the fact that she did that at the end of that episode, that now gives her permission to really change, and go for the new Pam.
On all the show's couples:
I think Jim and Pam are the couple you most relate to, that you most want to be. They're true love. And then you have Dwight and Angela, and they're weird and bizarre, and then there's Kelly and Ryan, which, we've all been there, we've all done that. And then there's Michael and Jan, and it's like, I hope to God that never happens to me. Michael and Jan are that couple where you're friends with Jan, and then your husband says to you, ''You just need to be friends with Jan on your own. We're not hanging out with them as a couple anymore.''
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