When it comes to the types of characters that an actor can play, there are only a few roles that have more than the bad choice in a love triangle. The first few seasons of “The Office” focused very much on the fact that Pam had to choose between her sweet colleague Jim and her rude fiance Roy, but I don’t think that a viewer was actually there after Roy. During Jims Season 3 girlfriend Karen (Rashida Jones) Has many defenders in the Fandom, there are far fewer essays that argue why Pam should have selected Roy instead.
Roy’s actor David Denman (who too Played in the very underestimated “Brightburn”), it always knew that it would work like this, even though NBC briefly tried to convince him otherwise. As Hollywood reporter explained In a 2019 profile by Denman:
“Before his last run it was not quite clear season four.
How “the office” Roy got rid of
In retrospect, it seems inevitable that Roy is written from the show. He was characterized as a kind of idiot, someone who was rude and inattentive to Pam. He was the annoying obstacle in relation to two star lovers. But it is easy to forget that there was a short moment in season 3 (AKA the second best season) where he seemed to be like a viable Jim alternative. In season 3, Roy had cleaned up his crime and began to be a good friend.
At half -time of the season Pam was back with Roy and Jim seemed satisfied with Karen, and it was not clear how this could change soon. As Denman put it: “We had led this third season, maybe Roy and Pam will come back together.”
But then Pam Roy tells about her kiss with Jim, and Roy replies by destroying a bar and trying to attack Jim at work. It was a moment when a reference to a Pam/Roy endgame collapsed, and that it knew when he read the script. “Suddenly Roy was an idiot again,” he said. “I went, ‘um. We will definitely not come back together.'” As he further explained:
“We read it out at the same table. ‘The office ‘ has been picked up for three years. Everyone goes: “Oh my god! It’s incredible! ‘And I turned to (showrunner) Greg (Daniels) and I go: “I won’t be there, right?” And he goes: ‘No. You are not. Honest. I have to bring Romeo and Julia together, and I can’t really lurk that around with you. ‘”
Roy went in season 3, but he would return triumphed
Understandably, the show Roy wanted to get out of the picture. After all, in the premiere of the fourth season, they did the same with Karen, which quickly found that Karen canceled her job in the Scranton branch shortly after Jim had separated with her. Season 4 was Jim and Pam’s honeymoon period, in which their young love seemed more healthy and carefree than ever before. Having Roy or Karen would have killed the mood.
Fortunately, Roy returned to the “office” for the occasional one-episode act, most of which were in a more stable place than we last left it. In his fifth season, he seemed largely about his relationship with Pam, and in the episode of the 9th season “Roy’s wedding” he seemed to thrive. He would become a sensitive, successful piano player; After the first three seasons implied that Roys held Pam back, season 9 suddenly raised the idea that Pam might hold back Roy.
“I often found out that I came back, (John) Krasinski fought to get around Roy,” said Denman. “He wanted to mess things up, create more tensions and more conflicts and things.” Sure enough, “Roy’s wedding” is one of the exciting episodes of the show show, which really seems to say the death of Jim and Pams marriage. Roy may no longer be the obstacle that Jim and Pam’s romance stood in the way, but he was still able to cause trouble six years later.
