Plot twist! John Krasinski says he and Jenna Fischer weren’t ‘genuinely in love’

“I think that was wildly misquoted or taken out of context.’’

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By Emily Anderson @emilymands

January 26, 2016

2 minutes to read

Buzzkill of the day: John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer were not in love when filming The Office.

Last week, the world took a fragment of a complex interview quote from Fischer about her relationship with Krasinski and ran with it, bursting at the seams with rekindled The Office feelings.

In an appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Fischer said:

John and I have real chemistry. There is a real part of me that is Pam, and a real part of him that is Jim, and those parts of us were genuinely in love with one another. But in real life we aren’t totally Pam and totally Jim, so in real life we’re not the perfect match. So it’s a really complicated thing, but he was like a type of spouse that I had for a long time — he was my partner.

In a new interview with the The Daily Beast, Krasinski said that Fischer’s Jim-and-Pam-4-ever comment has been “wildly misquoted.’’

I’m sure she was trying to say something nice about how genuine the acting relationship was, of bringing a relationship that became that popular onscreen—and I think we both feel it’s such an honor to be a part of that relationship. As far as how she was quoted about saying we were ‘genuinely in love,’ I think that was taken wildly out of context and I feel bad for her.

Fischer, who said she and Krasinski are not a “perfect match’’ off-screen, has been married to screenwriter Lee Kirk since 2010. Krasinski also got married in 2010 to actress Emily Blunt. And that is who he is genuinely in love with—which was made especially evident in the second half of his interview with The Daily Beast, in which he went into detail about how gaga he is for his lady:

“She’s one of the coolest people, she’s so talented, she’s beautiful, and she’s certainly out of my league,’’ Krasinski told the publication of Blunt.

True love exists for Fischer and Krasinski. Just independently of one another.