Regarding the types of characters that an actor can play, there are few more ungrateful roles than the bad choice in a love triangle. The first seasons of “The Office” focused a lot on PAM before choosing between his sweet colleague Jim and his rude fiancé, but I don’t think that a spectator really approached Roy there. While Jim’s Season 3 Girlfriend Karen (Rashida Jones) At many defenders in the Fandom, there are much fewer tests that explain why Pam should have chosen Roy instead.
The actor of Roy, David Denman (who also Played in the “Brightburn” very under-sown-estimated), Always knew in a way that it was how it would work, although NBC briefly tried to convince him of the contrary. As a Hollywood journalist explain In a Denman 2019 profile:
“Before what would be his last race, it was not completely clear that he would be released on the program. During contractual negotiations before season three, NBC offered the actor a rich agreement that would be triggered if he was asked to continue for season four.
How the “office” got rid of Roy
With hindsight, it seems inevitable that Roy is written of the show. It was characterized as a kind of idiot, someone who was rude and inattentive to PAM. He was the boring obstacle in the path of two star lovers. But it is easy to forget that there was a brief moment in season 3 (Aka the second best season) where he seemed to be a viable Jim alternative. In season 3, Roy had cleaned his act and had started to make a real effort to be a good boyfriend.
Halfway through the season, Pam was back with Roy and Jim seemed satisfied with Karen, and he was not clear how it could change so early. As Denman said, “we had led this third season, maybe Roy and Pam will meet.”
But then Pam tells Roy his kiss with Jim, and Roy responds by vandalizing a bar and trying to attack Jim at the workplace. It was a time when any suspicion of the end of the game Pam / Roy crashed, and Denman knew it when he read the script. “All of a sudden, Roy was again an idiot,” he said. “I went, ‘uh. We are certainly not going to come together.'” As he explained more:
“At this same table, we discovered”The office ‘ has been picked up for three years. Everyone goes: “Oh, my God! It’s amazing! And I turned to [showrunner] Greg [Daniels] And I’m going to, “I’m not going to be on it, right?” And he says, “No. It’s not you. Honestly. I need to collect Romeo and Juliet, and I can’t really do that with you. ‘”
Roy left in season 3, but he would return to triumph
Naturally, the show wanted Roy out of the image. After all, they would do the same with Karen in the first of season 4, which quickly established that Karen had left his job in the scranton branch just after Jim broke with her. Season 4 was Jim and Pam’s honeymoon period, where their young love seemed as healthy and carefree as ever; Having Roy or Karen Stick around would have killed the vibrations.
Fortunately, Roy would return to “The Office” for the occasional scenario of an episode, most of which established it as being in a more stable place from the last time we left him. In his appearance of season 5, he especially seemed to be on his relationship with PAM, and in the episode of season 9 “Roy’s Wedding”, he seemed inexplicably prospered. He would become a sensitive man, successful and playing the piano; After the first three seasons suggested that Roy’s presence retained PAM back, season 9 suddenly raised the idea that may also be Roy.
“I discovered most of the time I came back [John] Krasinski was fighting for Roy to come, “said Denman.” He wanted to mix things, create more tension and more conflicts and stuff. “Of course”, the one who really seems to prefigure the disappearance of Jim and Pam’s marriage. They six years later.
