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Tackling comedy outside ‘The Office’; Susan King
Los Angeles Times 01-13-2008
JOHN KRASINSKI fumbled as a football player in junior high school.
“I played one year organized football . . . and it was only one year because I wasn’t very good,” says the lanky 28-year-old best known as the sales rep Jim on NBC’s “The Office.” But that hasn’t kept him away from the pigskin. “I have played tackle football with my friends all my life,” he adds.
So when George Clooney cast him in his screwball football comedy, “Leatherheads,” opening April 4, Krasinski “finally felt like the hero of the backyard game where the clock is ticking down and you are running through the field and you score a touchdown. I thank George for giving me all my childhood fantasies back.”
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” Cary Grant must be tired of it.”
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