(2 Sep 2020) KEVIN SPILLS THE CHILI: BEHIND THE SCENES OF ONE OF THE GREATEST MOMENTS OF 'THE OFFICE'
It's one of the most shared and most memed scenes in the history of "The Office": When bumbling and beloved Kevin Malone spills an enormous vat of his special homemade chili in the middle of the office, uselessly tries to salvage it using a clipboard and ends up sprawled out and covered in the orange goop.
Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin, recently shared the story behind the famous scene. Incredibly, he said it was captured in one take.
Before they filmed it, he said the props department approached him and told him he would only get three tries because they only had three pieces of carpet for the scene.
"It was a gigantic piece of carpet that was actually laid on top of the carpet that existed. But I mean, gigantic -- like, from the front door all the way through Jim and Dwight's desk and the front of the reception area and stuff," Baumgartner said.
"They were like, 'We have three pieces of carpet. Like, that's it. So there's no more that can happen. We can roll it up. We can reset. We can blah blah blah, but we have three pieces of carpet.'"
Luckily, the first take was perfect.
"Had I not gotten it on the first take, we would have had a problem because they could have replaced the carpet, but I don't know that they could have replaced me and returned me to a normal place. My hands were stained for like, two days."
When fans of the show still approach Baumgartner, it's usually the chili scene they want to talk about with him.
"Some people are like, 'That is the funniest. That is so hilarious. I love.' And then I'll have other people that are like, 'I feel so bad for you. It breaks my heart.' And, you know, I partly think that the people who say it's just hilarious, they're psychopaths - like, that you can't have any feeling for him," he said.
"But I think it's somewhere in the middle. I mean, the physical nature of it. Like, rolling around and chili is so absurdist or whatever. But I think that it ties into that, he's so proud of this one thing. And of course, it fails, but it doesn't diminish the trying to me. And so to me that aspect of Kevin, that was always fun for me to play."
Baumgartner relives that moment and many more with almost every other actor and key creative mind behind the success of the show on his Spotify podcast, "An Oral History of The Office."
The podcast, which includes interviews with Ricky Gervais, Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski, among others, is out now.

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