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Thursday, March 22, 2007
WIRED 15.05 Jenna Fischer Cover
"The April cover of WIRED features a package of stories about radical transparency, our notion that the next model of business success is laying your company bare to the world—sharing secrets with your rivals, blogging about ideas as you have them, and copping to fumbles and foibles as you make them. The concept was crisp, but we all struggled with how to portray a pretty complex idea in the three-second visual byte that is the modern magazine cover. If you're talking about transparency, the obvious metaphor is clear: you're naked.
So of course, WIRED being WIRED, we wanted a cover that was smart and showy. And as Creative Director I wanted something that hadn't been done before. We settled on the idea of printing on clear acetate. But it had to be interactive. Now you’re in a business suit—now you're not.
Then we wrestled with the question of how to best show the real goings on inside the modern American office. How about using "The Office" as a model? And who would we like to see practicing what we're preaching? Dwight? Ehhh...notsomuch. Of course, Pam. So we called NBC and pitched our idea and Jenna Fischer (thankfully!) liked the idea.
Michael Elins photographed her in Los Angeles in a dingy little studio. And yes, the whole thing is real; we shot it in two parts, Jenna in her business suit and her birthday suit (really). She was a great sport about the whole thing. Funny and endearing.
And no, I don't have outtakes."
Injured Jenna Fischer Still 'Sore,' Gets New Chair
FRIDAY AUGUST 03, 2007 01:50 PM EDT
By Nicholas White
Jenna Fischer spent her summer nursing four fractured vertebrae – but the Office Emmy nominee insists she's almost 100 percent as her hit NBC show returns for a fourth season.![]()
"I'm still sore," Fischer, 33, told PEOPLE at Thursday's Universal Media Studios Emmy party in Malibu. "I have good days and so-so days. I'm definitely able to work."
In The Office, Fischer usually sits behind a computer. She adds, "They got a variety of chairs for me. I had to sit in, I think, six different chairs, and got to pick my favorite one."
Fischer, who hurt her back after falling at an NBC party in mid-May, explains, "Truthfully, I'm not in a lot of pain anymore. It's more some discomfort. I don't have a headache, but I would say it's comparable to having a low-grade headache."
But her back has yet to recuperate fully. "I'm not allowed to start physical therapy yet. The bones have to completely heal first. I start physical therapy in about three weeks."
In the meantime, Fischer says some tasks are just difficult – or impossible. "There are little things all the time that I don't realize I can't do until I try to do them, like parallel-park my car," Fischer says. "It's the twisting behind me. It's certain muscles that you're not sure about yet. I'm just going to try to roll with it. Everyone is so supportive and concerned. I know it's going to be okay."
The show's first script read-through is Aug. 3 and production starts Aug. 6, cast members say. Fischer's Office co-star Kate Flannery attests to Fischer's recovery.
"I had lunch with her today," Flannery tells PEOPLE. "She's slowly healing, and I think she's going to be fine."