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Steve Carell wasn’t supposed to kiss Oscar Nunez in The Office
Remember Michael Scott and Oscar Martinez’s gay kiss in Season 3 of The Office? Oscar Nunez claims that Steve Carell, his The Office co-star, did it because he wanted to.
The legendary kiss took place in the third season episode “Gay Witch Hunt,” in which Carell’s character seeks atone for homophobic behavior at work.
In the sequence, Carell’s character Michael summons everyone to a meeting room to address Oscar’s problems after his coming out as gay.
Michael accidently “outs” Oscar to the whole workplace after learning that Oscar finds Michael’s usage of certain phrases offensive since he is gay. When Oscar is on the verge of quitting, Michael chooses to openly and “bravely” demonstrate his non-homophobia by hugging Oscar in a forced embrace. Oscar dismisses his attempts, calling him “small” and “ignorant.” Oscar tries to reconcile with another embrace after seeing Michael’s sad response, but Michael chooses to “raise the stakes.”
He tells the staff, “I want to burn this into your brains. Because this is an image that I want you people to remember for a long time to come.” Following that, the two engage in a kind of tug-of-war that culminates with Michael initiating a kiss on the lips.
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Steve Carell’s move stunned the audience, the other characters who saw the kiss, and even the actor Oscar Nunez.
Nuez and his co-star Jenna Fischer confessed in a recent edition of the Office Ladies podcast that the kiss was not planned — and that they were just as astonished as everyone else.
In The Office, Steve Carell was meant to kiss Oscar on the forehead.
“Originally he hugs you and he was supposed to go in for a kiss,” Fischer said. “But he chickens out and is supposed to like kiss you on the forehead or something.”
Fischer added while recalling what Carell improvised: “But I remember sitting in that room and when Steve said the line ‘I want you to burn this into your brains’ that was the moment. We were like, ‘That was not scripted. What does Steve have in his head right now?’”
When Carell leaned in for a kiss on the lips, Nuez claimed he was taken aback since the moment had not been planned.
Reflecting on the moment, Nuñez simply said: “Carell’s insane.” That is something that no one can deny.
Oscar Nuez said on TODAY, “I remember it being improvised. He wasn’t supposed to kiss me, but that made the scene.” The choice by Steve Carrell to go for the kiss was a game-changer. “The scene was flat. It wasn’t really happening, it was just a regular scene. And Carrell […] made it an Office scene by making it inappropriate and totally uncomfortable. And it was great cause we did it in one take, no one knew what was happening, only Steve knew.”
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