The Office has been off the air for more than a decade now, but we’re about to go back to that wild and utterly ridiculous world with Peacock's new spinoff The Paper soon landing on the 2025 TV premiere schedule. The new comedy series, which features the same documentary crew from the Dunder Mifflin following a Toledo, Ohio, newspaper, includes several callbacks and staples from one of NBC's best sitcoms, including the iconic Jim Halpert “stare.”
I recently sat down with the new stars of The Paper to talk about the upcoming series, and during our chat, I made sure to ask if they had any advice for pulling off that classic “stare.” Chelsea Frei, who takes on the role of Toledo Truth Teller journalist Mare Pritti, told me that while she was “scared of those stares,” she figured something out:
