John Krasinski - News & Appearances #2: If John's In It, Said It or Done It, We've Got It Here! - Page 3

**blue sky blues** · 03-21-2008, 04:59 PM

Awesome! I love when he hosts the block of episodes.

**ILoveOTH23** · 03-21-2008, 06:11 PM

Thanks for the news! Can't wait!!!

***Enigma*** · 03-21-2008, 10:13 PM

It's going to be fun. Awesome!

girl in a cardigan · 03-22-2008, 08:13 AM

No idea where to put this tidbit, but I sorta love that John is mentioned in reference to his brother instead of the other way around

From the Providence Journal:

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•John Krasinski of The Office fame is the younger brother of former Brown basketball player Paul Krasinski.

**blue sky blues** · 03-22-2008, 11:54 AM

Oh that is cool that hes referenced like that! I like that Paul got some recognition.

Sara23 · 03-22-2008, 01:21 PM

Leno appearance date has changed to Wednesday, 3/26.

The sooner the better.

girl in a cardigan · 03-22-2008, 06:04 PM

Thanks Sara! I actually have some chance of staying awake and being home for that one

Rian · 03-22-2008, 07:13 PM

Anyone know how much older his brothers are than John?

girl in a cardigan · 03-22-2008, 08:21 PM

I want to say 3 years and 5 years, but I don't know why I think that.

**blue sky blues** · 03-22-2008, 10:32 PM

I'm not sure how much older they are either.

girl in a cardigan · 03-25-2008, 01:29 PM

According to this, John was at the "Run Fatboy Run" premiere last night, but I don't see any photos of him.

I know he'd walk the carpet to do free press for "Leatherheads" so if you find photos, please post here or the photo thread!

**blue sky blues** · 03-25-2008, 04:05 PM

I can't wait to see that movie.

Awesome that he was at the premier!

**ILoveOTH23** · 03-25-2008, 06:18 PM

Very cool!

girl in a cardigan · 03-26-2008, 05:41 AM

John is #30 in Boston magazine's "61 Best New Things About Boston:

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30. John Krasinski, 28, actor
We cogs in the machine—and here in Boston, that's more than half a million of us—know that you rarely get to pick your coworkers or, for that matter, your cubicle neighbors. There's always going to be the loud talker, the weird eater, the social butterfly who spends her days flitting from one desk to the next. Barely 8 inches separate me, for instance, from a guy who frequently chuckles to himself, and can spend hours tossing a baseball up and down. Once I thought I heard him fart. (Maybe he's heard me, too.)

Perhaps our desk-bound existences—and the fact that we're a town of cynics—explain Boston's particular affinity for NBC's hit sitcom The Office (returning this month, post-strike), in which an ensemble cast of paper-pushers deal with one another's quirks, most of them annoying. As Jim, the amiable, moderately ambitious voice of reason, John Krasinski—who can also be seen starring this month opposite Renée Zellweger in the new Clooney-directed, football-themed romantic comedy Leatherheads—calls on dry wit and a cache of goofy looks to express the disdain he feels for his more ridiculous office-mates. Whether confined in our own offices, stranded on the Expressway, or wedged onto the Green Line, we can relate to his perpetual exasperation: It's not me, it's the other guy.

Of course, Krasinski never actually had an office job. Growing up the youngest of three boys in Newton, where his parents still live (mom Mary Clare is a nurse; dad Ron is an internist), he spent his afterschool hours playing sports and his summers counseling 12-year-olds at Camp Chickami in Wayland. He was the good boy—did well enough at competitive Newton South High School to get into Brown, didn't really date, and generally behaved himself. "I was probably a wuss," he admits. I feign surprise. "Yeah. I never wanted to get into trouble. Like on Halloween, if my friends were like, ‘Let's go egg blah-blah-blah,' I'd be like, ‘Aww man, I'm sick, I gotta go home.'"

Over breakfast, Krasinski works the just-rolled-out-of-bed look: shaggy hair damp on the ends, hooded sweatshirt, scruff. He's just heard he's nabbed the lead role in an as-yet-untitled Sam Mendes movie penned by author Dave Eggers, and we celebrate with camera-friendly egg whites and avocado (for him) and desk chair–friendly oatmeal (for me). "When someone tells me they're from Boston, there's a whole other level of connection (31)," he says, and I don't believe he's making a pass. "It's like you don't have to start with commonality. You're just like, ‘Oh, you're from Boston?' Got it." He was raised on the Celtics (32) and the Pats (33), a love that's gotten easier to pursue since he became famous: In February, he and his dad caught the Super Bowl in Phoenix ("You can't just blame one person," he says, then silently mouths, "Gisele!"), and over Thanksgiving, he attended a Lakers-Celtics game. "When I was in high school, those games were so boring," he says. "Now, every single little kid has a Celtics shirt on, everybody is screaming at the top of their lungs, Donnie Wahlberg's there freaking out (34). It made me feel really proud, which I didn't expect."

What he has come to expect is that people are paying attention. "Every once in a while, a picture will show up of me eating lunch with my buddy, or getting out of my car in my own driveway," he says, then scans the room. For a brief moment in time—a week, really—Krasinski and the arguably better-looking and definitely much better-paid Zellweger were a tabloid item, victims of a paparazzi manipulation. "Our entire cast was going out together, but they just showed me and her," he says of the Us Weekly story. "You know, I really made out like a bandit there. I got the better end of that deal for sure." —Alyssa Giacobbe

**blue sky blues** · 03-26-2008, 05:42 AM

Ahhh! Those pictures are seriously TO DIE FOR!