The following is an excerpt from an interview with Rainn Wilson and Greg Daniels of The Office from monstersandcritics.dom:
Were you able to kind of recapture the energy at all when you guys got back from the convention in Scranton?
Greg Daniels: Sure. The convention was very fun and, it was a wonderful experience to see how many thousands of fans came from all over the world and there were people from Ireland and Oregon.
People came from a really great distance. This was my first time in Scranton although we’ve done so much research on the Internet. And I was really struck by how beautiful Scranton is, which is not what we really have been portraying in here. But we saw some of the sights like Nay Aug Park and the Treehouse, which is this amazing wheelchair accessible treehouse that they’ve built over this gorge.
There’s a lot of weird kind of Scranton-specific things that we saw, that will I’m sure come into different episodes. And the entire writing staff was there and they all had different experiences at driving around and going to Scranton bars, and meeting the policewomen. Stuff like that. So I think it was very good for the creativity of everybody here.
Rainn Wilson: Really it’s a lovely town. Like there are big old buildings, 100 years old, all over the downtown - big brick buildings that have a really cool industrial look, and a lot of iron work. And stuff like that.
And there’s beautiful hills all around Scranton. It’s like down in this little valley and there’s lovely trees and hills all over the place. A very green city…Brought to you by the City of Scranton Tourist Bureau. [M&C]
