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Idris Elba Joins The Office

Source:  Variety
Variety reports that actor Idris Elba was recently cast on The Office. He will play a rival to Dunder Mifflin's tightly wound manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell).

The actor is scheduled to appear in 6 episodes later in the year.

The plan is for NBC to announce the casting of Elba at NBC's TV Critics Association press tour on Thursday.


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mr_keys
January 15th, 2009 6:47am
The guy can act. Now can he do comedy. And if the die hard fans can put up with Rashida Jones (whom "they" claim can't act) then Idris will do just fine.
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MaViNx
January 15th, 2009 1:54am
I dont know about this one.
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