Call it a “back to ‘The Office’” mandate.
“The Office” star Melora Hardin says she is “certainly” up for a reboot of the smash-hit sitcom more than a decade after it went off the air — but believes other cast members might be more interested in returning for just a single film.
Hardin, 56, who played Jan Levinson on the NBC show, made the revelation in an interview with The US Sun on Friday.
“I would certainly show up,” the actress enthused about a possible reboot. “I think a lot of us would.”
However, she added: “‘I would love to make a film because then it would just be quick and we would do it. I think we could bring everybody back for that.”
Rumors of a reunion have been circulating for almost six months after industry journalist Matthew Belloni wrote in Puck last September: “[Showrunner] Greg Daniels is set to do a reboot of ‘The Office.’”
Hardin didn’t address that report specifically during her interview with The US Sun, but admitted she had already talked to Daniels about storyline possibilities for her character if a reboot series or film goes ahead.
“‘I actually have talked to Greg about some ideas,” the star gushed. “I thought this would be funny if Jan was like a self-help guru because she was so kind of flawed.”
Meanwhile, Daniels himself has previously addressed the possibility of reviving the show — but said it might have to be with an all-new cast.
‘I can’t tell whether fans would want more of it, and when I say more of it, I don’t think it would be the same characters,” he told Collider in 2022.
“I think it would just be sort of like an extension of the universe, you know what I mean, like the way ‘[The] Mandalorian’ is like an extension of ‘Star Wars,’” he added. “But I don’t know if that would be something people would want or not, it’s hard to tell.”
The original series, which was an adaptation of Ricky Gervais’s UK comedy of the same name, ran from 2005 — 2013.