Steve Carell who is clearly one of TV’s best comedic actors has just confirmed that he is leaving The Office this May – and seems to think no one will care…
“I just think it’s time,” Steve told E! News. “I want to fulfill my contract. When I first signed on I had a contract for seven seasons, and this coming year is my seventh. I just thought it was time for my character to go. I didn’t see it as a huge thing and I certainly didn’t anticipate any sort of hubbub over it. I’m just not going to extend my contract, but I didn’t see it as a huge deal. And the show is great, and the ensemble is so strong, and the writers are great, so it’s just one part of that ensemble drifting off. They’ve incorporated so many new characters and so many new, great storylines that I have no doubt it’ll continue as strong if not stronger than ever.”
Hopefully this is just a bargaining ploy! I cannot see Dunder Mifflin without Michael. Can you?
He is amazing in everything he does, I have no doubt he’ll contiinue to move on to bigger and better things.
He’s so out of there! And frankly, I’m becoming more disenchanted with the show. I don’t know if it really did jump the shark after Jim and Pam got married, but something is definitely off with this show that I used to love.