The Office Jenna Fischer Exposes Reality Forced Her To Quit Tv Career
Landing a lead role on a television show may seem like the ultimate Hollywood dream, but the reality of life on screen can be far less glamorous than it appears. Jenna Fischer, who played Pam Beesly on all nine seasons of NBC’s beloved sitcom The Office, knows that all too well. The actress recently opened up about the pressures of a showbiz career and the circumstances that eventually led her to step away from it and embrace podcasting. “The hours were so intense. It was like 65, 70 hours a week, and my kids were very small,” she said. Jenna Fischer wanted to be a present parent, but TV’s grueling schedule left little room for family life Eric McCandless/Getty Images Fischer’s time on The Office was as lucrative as it could get. She was not only starring alongside well-known faces in the industry, including Steve Carell and John Krasinski, but also earning a paycheck that made it all wo
