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09-18-2022, 07:02 PM
https://www.looper.com/1006925/the-dreadful-office-episode-that-had-many-of-the-actors-gagging/
The Office ensemble ate way too many hot dogs for Beach Games
When the "Office Ladies" podcast covered the Season 3 classic "Beach Games," (https://officeladies.com/episodes/2020/11/04/episode-52-beach-games) actresses and co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey didn't filter out the worst parts of shooting this episode.
In "Beach Games," Michael Scott (https://www.looper.com/246820/the-untold-truth-of-michael-scott/) (Steve Carell) organizes a series of absurd contests by Lake Scranton for his employees, all to decide who his successor at their branch will be. One of these is a hot dog eating competition, and evidently, this was not easy for anyone to film.
"I was really lucky, Jenna, because I said, 'My character's a vegetarian. She's not going to be eating these," Kinsey told Fischer at the 38-minute mark of the podcast episode. The other actors weren't so fortunate. Both actresses remembered how their co-stars, including Brian Baumgartner, Leslie David Baker, and Ed Helms, really were eating the franks and buns and were doing so on every take. Part of the problem, Kinsey noted, was that the scene was a big group shot. "So these guys had to eat on every take because they never knew when the camera was specifically on them or not."
By the end, the actors began gagging from the sheer amount of food they had to go through, making full use of the spit buckets that were provided. Helms' character, Andy Bernard, may have triumphed in the contest by eating 13 hot dogs, but it's hard to imagine any of the actors feeling like they won that day.
The Office ensemble ate way too many hot dogs for Beach Games
When the "Office Ladies" podcast covered the Season 3 classic "Beach Games," (https://officeladies.com/episodes/2020/11/04/episode-52-beach-games) actresses and co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey didn't filter out the worst parts of shooting this episode.
In "Beach Games," Michael Scott (https://www.looper.com/246820/the-untold-truth-of-michael-scott/) (Steve Carell) organizes a series of absurd contests by Lake Scranton for his employees, all to decide who his successor at their branch will be. One of these is a hot dog eating competition, and evidently, this was not easy for anyone to film.
"I was really lucky, Jenna, because I said, 'My character's a vegetarian. She's not going to be eating these," Kinsey told Fischer at the 38-minute mark of the podcast episode. The other actors weren't so fortunate. Both actresses remembered how their co-stars, including Brian Baumgartner, Leslie David Baker, and Ed Helms, really were eating the franks and buns and were doing so on every take. Part of the problem, Kinsey noted, was that the scene was a big group shot. "So these guys had to eat on every take because they never knew when the camera was specifically on them or not."
By the end, the actors began gagging from the sheer amount of food they had to go through, making full use of the spit buckets that were provided. Helms' character, Andy Bernard, may have triumphed in the contest by eating 13 hot dogs, but it's hard to imagine any of the actors feeling like they won that day.