Interview: The Office's Angela and Andy

Ed Helms & Angela Kinsey Talk: Will Angela Choose Andy or Dwight?

Nov 11, 2008

Actors Ed Helms and Angela Kinsey talk about the love triangle; the allure of Dwight vs Andy and complicated office romances

Betty, Veronica, and Archie. King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere. Brenda, Kelly,and Dylan. Dwight, Ed, and Angela?

Ah, love triangles. They’ve been immortalized in the comics, in the legends of Camelot, and in countless cheesy teen soaps including Beverly Hills 90210. Now, The Office enters the fray. When viewers last saw the bizarre love triangle of Andy, Angela, and Dwight, Angela had rejected Dwight and ignored his 6:14 p.m. deadline to choose him.

Actors Ed Helms and Angela Kinsey (who play the engaged couple Andy and Angela) revealed to Suite101 that the game isn’t over, telling viewers to expect complications this season. At the same time, during a conference call from Los Angeles, the pair cheekily refused to confirm or deny if a wedding is in the works.

Suite101: Angela, you’re playing quite the saucy office minx on the show now.

Angela Kinsey: I don’t know what’s happened to my character. She’s crazy. It is so much fun to play because it’s like a buffet. There’s so much to choose from.

And so as an actor I love it. My poor dad is being put through the ringer though. He’ll like watch an episode and he’ll be like 'are you serious man', what’s going on, you know, because his daughter is like kind of the office skank. I don’t know. But it’s definitely a lot of fun to play.

Ed Helms: I love it. I found so much to love about Andy and I think there’s a lot of me in him. Like there - the things that I’m kind of ashamed of, I just like blow out of proportion for Andy and - or the things that I might be insecure about I just make them the biggest parts of Andy. I love the dynamic. I love his passion for Angela. And it’s - as the show - as sort of Andy has grown on - in the world of The Office and all the characters continue to get more and more fleshed out, it just gets more complicated which is so much more fun as a performer.

Decisions, Decisions

Suite101: Okay. Now Angela, you’re sitting at your desk. Angela Martin, she’s making a decision tree. Dwight or Andy?

Suite101: What are some of the pros and cons, like the positives and negatives of each guy?

Angela Kinsey: There’s a part of Angela Martin that kind of wants to do what society would think would be appropriate. And I think Andy seems very sort of appropriate. She could bring Andy to church. I don’t know if she could bring Dwight to church.

He might show up with like some squirrel pelts to give people. It’s a little off-putting, you know.

And I think Andy sort of, on paper, is what she thought she wanted. And I think Dwight sort of has that sort of - she has this kind of crazy chemistry with Dwight that she doesn’t understand.

It doesn’t fit into her plan for her life, and that’s sort of the thing she goes back and forth with.

And Andy has this enthusiasm and he wants to plan this perfect wedding. And he’s so accommodating to all her needs and her needs are crazy.

And Dwight is kind of more in her face, and I think challenges her, and they fight more. But maybe she’s more exhilarated by that.

Anger Management

Suite101: Ed, what do you think Andy will do if and when he finds out about Dwight and Angela? Like will his anger management training still hold?

Ed Helms: Andy’s anger issues - I’d like to think that they’re still very much there. I’m not sure anyone who has a real problem with that ever fully gets past it. But he’s really learned a lot of coping mechanisms and has - I like - I have this image in my head. You can buy like an inflatable, like a little inflatable gremlin or something and you can beat this up and take your anger out on this thing. So Andy has one of those at home. But for some reason I like the idea that Andy beats up this little inflatable doll, so much that - he like swings it around his room and he’s actually damaging things around his house. [So] it’s not working because he’s still damaging things around him.

Baby Bump Watch?

Suite101: Is Angela pregnant with Dwight’s baby? And if so, are they going to have a shotgun wedding?

Angela Kinsey: Wouldn’t it be funny if all of a sudden I had to be pregnant since I was just pregnant for real? Oh my god. Lady, I cannot answer your question. I can tell you this. Things get really complicated pretty quickly.

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