So all of that was willing and ready and, on their side, honest.
He told his manager and his manager contacted them and said he’s willing to sign another contract for a couple years. I don’t know if it was a game of chicken or what… He planned on staying on the show.
But for some reason, they didn’t contact him. He was willing to and his agent was willing to. He had told the network that he was going to sign for another couple of years. Hairstylist Kim Ferry backs up Wittle’s recollection of the events, noting that the network decided not to pick up Carell’s option for another season: Maybe I should go do other things.’ So I think that made it easier, because when the news broke that he was considering it, the people that are in charge of keeping him there didn’t make a big effort to do so until afterward.” When he realized he didn’t get any kind of response from them, he thought, ‘Oh, maybe they don’t really care if I leave. They didn’t call and say, ‘What? You wanna leave?’ He said he didn’t get any kind of response from them. Then what he said was the people connected to the show had no reaction to it. He was kind of thinking out loud, but he did it in an interview in public and it created news. He didn’t plan on saying it out loud and he hadn’t decided anything. He was doing a radio interview and he haphazardly mentioned, almost unconsciously, that it might be his last season. “I sat with him one time and he told me the story. With the final year of his contract looming, the actor noted that Season 7 would “probably be my last year.” But as Carell explained to The Office boom operator/sound mixer Brian Wittle, it was the reaction to these off-the-cuff comments that actually convinced him it was time to leave: It all started when Carell gave an interview in April 2010 to the BBC. Interviews in Andy Greene’s newly released book The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s claim that Carell’s decision to leave The Office had more to do with network ambivalence than a burning desire to break free from the constraints of a broadcast sitcom. Some shows can soldier on with cast changes, but when it came to The Office, the series was a shell of its former self without Michael Scott.īut new revelations have pulled back the curtain on the circumstances of Carell’s exit-namely that the insanely talented performer wasn’t actually itching to leave the show at all, and was game to return for at least Season 8. After Carell’s exit in the show’s seventh season, the NBC series had serious trouble recovering, and the quality certainly dipped in its final two seasons. For seven seasons, Carell amazed with his phenomenally nuanced performance as Michael Scott-at once the world’s worst boss, but also a deeply empathetic and lonely human.
Few actors have left as big a void on a TV series than Steve Carell on The Office.
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