Do you remember the very first time you witnessed Michael Scott tossing on a purple bandana to "transform" into Prison Mike? I, for one, promptly burst into a fit of laughter, but Kinsey, on the other hand, had to "bite the inside of [her] mouth" to stay in character as the stone-faced Angela Martin — a tactic she commonly relied on to refrain from laughing while filming.
"We broke [character] all the time . . . every day."
Many of her costars weren't as successful with keeping their cool on set. "We broke all the time . . . every day," Kinsey said, revealing that Mindy Kaling was the most prone to breaking character. Kaling, who played the office chatterbox Kelly Kapoor, attempted to hide her laughter by futilely covering her mouth with her hand.
Meanwhile, Baumgartner would pull a move Kinsey dubbed "the tea kettle." "He would be trying to hide his laughter by blowing the air out of the side of his mouth. That almost would make me laugh as much as what was happening in the scene," she said.
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