James Spader Says He Took "The Office" Gig to Finance "Lincoln" Role

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TCA: James Spader Says He Took "The Office" Gig to Finance "Lincoln" Role
by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
Saturday July 27, 2013


“I had a ball doing that one episode… and two things happened,” Spader said.

“I was offered Lincoln – a film everybody was doing [long pause] for very little money, and yet the commitment was going to be eight months in advance. And I had just finished doing a play in New York and need to make some money.”

“I needed a job that actually paid my bills, and lo and behold they aired the seven-season finale and people responded to the finale, and they [the producers] called and said ‘we’d love to have you back in any capacity you’re willing’,” Spader told the dumb-struck, "Office"-idolizing crowd.



Spader said he agreed to return, “As long as you let me out in the fall, for this film…And that, probably more than anything, dictated the trajectory of the character on the show…So in a sense I never felt like I was more than a visitor there. I was fine with that.”

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/tca-...-lincoln-role/

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Originally Posted by JamesG

TCA: James Spader Says He Took "The Office" Gig to Finance "Lincoln" Role
by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
Saturday July 27, 2013


“I had a ball doing that one episode… and two things happened,” Spader said.

“I was offered Lincoln – a film everybody was doing [long pause] for very little money, and yet the commitment was going to be eight months in advance. And I had just finished doing a play in New York and need to make some money.”

“I needed a job that actually paid my bills, and lo and behold they aired the seven-season finale and people responded to the finale, and they [the producers] called and said ‘we’d love to have you back in any capacity you’re willing’,” Spader told the dumb-struck, "Office"-idolizing crowd.



Spader said he agreed to return, “As long as you let me out in the fall, for this film…And that, probably more than anything, dictated the trajectory of the character on the show…So in a sense I never felt like I was more than a visitor there. I was fine with that.”

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/tca-...-lincoln-role/

I saw him in the movie White Palace with Susan Surandan and it was good.