John Krasinski Reveals His Daughters Thinks He Works In An Workplace

John Krasinski’s breakthrough function was taking part in Jim Halpert on “The Workplace”, and through a current look on “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” he defined why that’s led his daughters — Hazel, 8, and Violet, 6 — to consider he works in an precise workplace.

“The explanation I believe that’s as a result of I used to be strolling them to high school at some point, and this man got here up, and he was very good, he went, ‘John! From “The Workplace”!,’” he mentioned. “I went ‘Yeah,’ and he mentioned, ‘Oh my god, it’s so good to see you,’ and I mentioned, ‘Thanks’ and he saved strolling.”

After that, Krasinski continued, certainly one of his daughters requested him, “‘So, you’re employed with him?’ I went, ‘No.’ And she or he goes, ‘Why are you mendacity to me?’ I went, ‘I’m not mendacity to you.’ She goes, ‘No, he simply mentioned he is aware of you from the workplace.’”

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In the meantime, he additionally revealed that each women — whom he shares with spouse Emily Blunt — have seen “The Workplace”, however don’t consider that it’s him they’re seeing onscreen.

“My 6-year-old saved asking, ‘Is that you just?’” he mentioned. “And she or he says, ‘You look very completely different.’ I used to be like, ‘I’ll strive to not take that as a hurtful factor,’ however positive, I say, ‘No, that’s me, I used to be simply taking part in a personality, and she or he went ‘Pfff, that’s not you.’ Then we watched two extra episodes, and she or he goes, ‘That’s not you. That man appears rather a lot such as you although!’”

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Whereas the women are nonetheless uncertain of what their dad does for a residing, they’re very conscious that their mother is a film star. Actually, Krasinski joked, they assume that “she had married me out of charity, like, ‘You’re so good to marry an accountant’ as a result of they don’t know what I do.”

“The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT on International.