Krasinski as Jim in The Office.
Krasinski has booked The Office
but he's only just shot the pilot.
That's amazing,” Krasinski says when informed of his room's place in Doors lore.
She and Krasinski chose the names Hazel
and Violet because they liked their“antique” British vibe.
Near the end of the interview Krasinski tells me a story about Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Accordingly, when asked to name a hero outside his own profession, Krasinski doesn't hesitate: Dad.
There's a shot in 13 Hours in which Krasinski walks out onto a Benghazi porch.
As Hoffman's character, Jamie, delivers his final monologue,
confessing his love and envy for his brother, Krasinski cries- hard.
Rise founder Jason Walsh trains an A-list roster that includes Men's Health cover guys Matt Damon and
John Krasinski.
When the show is over, Krasinski's buddies pressure him to go say hello to Hoffman and,
reluctantly, he goes.
As of our conversation, Krasinski has finished shooting the first season
of Jack Ryan for Amazon(available to stream August 31).
Hoffman was one of the leads, and Krasinski, who was still in college,
made an uncredited appearance as a caddie.
Krasinski steps back inside,
kills the air-conditioning, and leaves the balcony doors open to let the breeze cool down the room.
Amazon pitched it to Krasinski by suggesting that serialized TV might be
a better medium for the sprawl of Tom Clancy's books.
Not present were writer-actor Paul Lieberstein(who was originally going to make an appearance), Steve Carell,
John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, and Jenna Fischer.
And yet the fact that Krasinski, with his Soft Batch heart,
ended up directing a blockbuster horror movie isn't actually as counterintuitive as it seems.
Then, Krasinski says,“in true New York fashion,
a garbage truck rips around the corner, screeches up to these cans, and the guy jumps off the back.
When Fischer finished her scene with Krasinski, he told her that she was his favorite Pam,
to which she reciprocated that he was her favorite Jim.
John Krasinski both directs and stars in A Quiet Place,
a film about a family of survivors beset by monsters who use their extremely sensitive hearing to hunt humans.
I ask Krasinski if- despite what he would achieved in film and television up to that point-
the reception to A Quiet Place felt like a similarly huge existential shift.
Krasinski's Ryan is a low-level modern-day CIA drone-
the human, cubicle-bound kind- who gets pulled into the line of fire after picking up the trail of a terrorist he's convinced is the next Osama bin Laden.
More than once over the course of our conversation, Krasinski alludes to a“dark hole” he might have
fallen into in response to a setback, or a success, if not for his upbringing, his wife and kids, and certain tough or fortuitous breaks that came along later in life, when he was ready to deal with them.
The two actors were in Hawaii,
shooting an as-yet-untitled comedy in which Krasinski, best known for playing Jim Halpert
in The Office-- and, if we can take a moment to brag, for being a Men's Health cover guy back in 2007-- plays a muscled-up military man who happens to be married to the ex-wife of Cooper's character.