Actress Angela Kinsey, recognized for her function as Angela Martin Schrute within the hit comedy, The Workplace, revealed that she would like to reprise her character for the Peacock spinoff sequence, The Paper.
Throughout a latest look on the FAN EXPO San Francisco 2025, alongside Rainn Wilson, who famously performed Angela’s love curiosity, Dwight Schrute, Kinsey was requested if she can be curious about becoming a member of The Paper‘s solid. She shared that she has spoken to Greg Daniels, who developed The Workplace and created The Paper, about probably returning as Angela. She additionally referenced that Oscar Nuñez reprised his Workplace character, Oscar Martinez, on The Paper. As followers are conscious, each Oscar and Angela had been accountants on The Workplace, which had a nine-season run till 2013.
“I used to be like, ‘Greg, in the event you want Angela Martin to come back, you recognize, if Oscar’s having an accounting drawback and Angela Martin wants to come back, Schrute, Angela Martin Schrute wants to come back and assist Oscar, I might be more than pleased to,'” stated Kinsey throughout the FAN EXPO San Francisco 2025 panel.
Oscar Nuñez Defined Why He Got here Again to Play His ‘Workplace’ Character in ‘The Paper’
The Paper, which premiered in September 2025, takes a take a look at a neighborhood newspaper. The sequence has been renewed for a second season.
In a September 2025 interview with BAFTA, Nuñez shared why he determined to affix the solid of The Paper. He defined that he knew that the present was “going to be high quality as a result of it’s Greg Daniels.” The actor additionally quipped that Workplace followers can be sad with him if he turned down the chance to play Oscar once more.
“What if I didn’t? What if I stated no? And that will be the headline, ‘Oscar refuses to… What does he do? He is doing puppetry in Venice Seashore.’ I imply, you recognize, I might be superb at puppetry, nevertheless it does not pay very nicely,” joked Nuñez throughout the interview.
He shared that Daniels approached him about The Paper whereas they had been getting lunch.
“He talked about it. He goes, ‘I’ve an concept for one thing. It’s simply this concept. Would you have an interest?’ I stated, ‘Yeah, in fact,'” stated Nuñez.
Nuñez additionally instructed that he did not suppose The Paper would come to fruition.
“Then subsequently, following conferences and lunches, it grew and grew and grew till lastly he is like, ‘Come meet the writers.’ I am like, ‘What?’ And it occurred,” stated Nuñez within the September 2025 interview.
