Sabrina Impacciatore reveals Steve Carell and John Krasinski visited the set of The Office spin-off The Paper on the first day of filming.Carell and Krasinski just so happened to be shooting a commercial for an Italian coffee brand next door that same day.Impacciatore also recounts a spontaneous trip from Rome to New York to meet Carell, where she asked him to “bless” her for The Paper.<\/p>\n
Michael Scott superfan Sabrina Impacciatore<\/a> nearly fainted when The Office<\/a> alums Steve Carell<\/a> and John Krasinski<\/a> stopped by set on the very first day of filming the sitcom\u2019s offshoot, The Paper.\n<\/p>\n Allow Impacciatore\u00a0 to set the stage: It’s an early morning in the makeup trailer at Universal Studios Lot in Los Angeles, where she and fellow costars Domhnall Gleeson<\/a> and Chelsea Frei<\/a> are preparing to take on the big day. \u201cNo makeup yet. We are very anxious. Like, oh my God, we’re so scared. And then we hear, knock, knock,\u201d Impacciatore recalls to Entertainment Weekly for The Paper’s cover story<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \u201cSomeone enters the trailer, and it’s Steve Carell and John Krasinski!,” the Italian actress continues. “We\u2019re fainting. Like, what? Can you imagine? Isn\u2019t it crazy? The first day of shooting!”<\/p>\n Steve Carell and John Krasinski on ‘The Office’.<\/p>\n Paul Drinkwater\/NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty<\/p>\n As fate would have it, Carell and Krasinski happened to be filming a commercial for the Italian coffee brand Lavazza right next door. Yes, Italian coffee! \u201cI thought, this is a blessing. Italian coffee, which is the coffee that I’ve been drinking all my life,\u201d adds Impacciatore. The supportive duo popped in simply to wish the cast good luck on their first day.\n<\/p>\n It’s worth noting, however, that the encounter was not the first time Impacciatore met Carell.<\/p>\n Impacciatore, who had never seen The Office before boarding The Paper, binged episodes prior to the start of production, becoming “addicted” to the show. “Steve Carell became someone that I loved,” she says, soon divulging that she booked an impromptu flight from her native Rome to New York the moment she learned Carell was headlining a Broadway production of Uncle Vanya.\n<\/p>\n Series creator Greg Daniels<\/a> let it slip that Carell was in the city, after Impacciatore asked him to relay a message of adoration to the actor. “I said, \u2018Greg, if you are still in contact with Steve, can you please tell him that I think he’s one of the most incredible artists on this planet?'” she recalls.<\/p>\n Sabrina Impacciatore and Domhnall Gleeson on ‘The Paper’.<\/p>\n John P. Fleenor\/PEACOCK<\/p>\n Sign up for\u00a0Entertainment Weekly’s<\/a> free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.\n<\/p>\n Welp. \u201cI bought a f—ing flight,” Impacciatore continues. “I went to see the show. I went to the green room. I waited for him. He came out. I was shaking. I said, \u2018I’m Sabrina! Can you bless me?\u2019 I needed his blessing [for The Paper]! He was the\u00a0sweetest. He was so warm. He was encouraging me so much. He said, \u2018These people are brilliant. You are going to have the best experience of your life. You’re going to be great.\u2019\n<\/p>\n \u201cHe was giving me confidence,\u201d she says. \u201cI will never forget that. Never. It was so right to do that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Consider Impacciatore’s spontaneity Esmeralda-coded. On The Paper (out Sept. 4 on Peacock), the documentary crew that immortalized the dysfunctional Dunder Mifflin workplace find new subjects with the staff of The Truth Teller, a historic but failing newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. Esmeralda, the chaotic and larger-than-life managing editor, finds her newsroom turned upside down with the arrival of new editor-in-chief Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson<\/a>), who has an infectious passion for old-school journalism. Ned works to revive the paper back to its glory days, recruiting the wholly-unequipped staff \u2014 including one recognizable former Dunder Mifflin accountant \u2014 to become reporters.\n<\/p>\n