Dakota Johnson doesn’t have fond memories of her days at Dunder Mifflin.
On Wednesday’s edition of Late Night with Seth Meyers, the Madame Web star, 34, opened up about how filming the final episode of The Office didn’t live up to her expectations.
“That was honestly the worst time of my life,” Johnson shared with a laugh. “I love that show so much, and they were like, ‘Do you want to be in the series finale?’ and I was like, ‘Of course,’ thinking that I’d show up for, like, half a day. I was there for two weeks and I’m barely in the f---ing show.”
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When host Seth Meyers asked if the cast was “super sad” on set as they prepared to wrap the NBC comedy, she responded, “They were sad and also, like, there were weird dynamics that had been going on for the last 10 years.”
“Some people didn’t speak to each other,” she added. “And I’m coming in like, ‘So excited to be here!’ No one wanted to talk to me. No one gave a f---. I was like, in the background of all of these scenes, faxing things.”
Meyers, 50, then jokingly praised her background acting, saying, “Can I tell you I recently watched it, and it was some of the most believable faxing I’ve ever seen and a lot of people I think mail it in when they’re in the background of those shows.”
In the show’s final episode, Johnson played an accountant who was hired by Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) to replace Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) after he was fired. The Office — which ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013 — also starred Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, John Krasinski, Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, and Ed Helms.
Back in 2021, Johnson revealed that her appearance was to introduce a potential spinoff of the hit series, which ultimately didn’t come to fruition.
“If everything else just falls away, maybe you’ll find me in that Office spinoff that no one wants to watch,” she told The Hollywood Reporter at the time. “I don’t know in what world that would’ve worked for me creatively. I have found that when something is successful, even when there’s nothing left, they just keep trying to wring out the towel of story. Sometimes things need to end when they’re supposed to end.”
The Office can be streamed in full on Peacock.
