The Workplace stars Oscar Nuñez and Kate Flannery scored massive on Thursday’s season finale of Who Desires to Be a Millionaire. The actors, enjoying for Deliberate Parenthood and Philadelphia meals financial institution Philabundance, gained the coveted $1 million prize.
On the sport present, the duo reached the ultimate query: “The phrase ‘planet’ comes from an historical Greek phrase that actually means what?” Flannery chosen “Wanderer” whereas Nuñez was so stressed he lay down on the ground of the studio. Host Jimmy Kimmel milked the second, delaying confirming that their reply was appropriate for a really tense minute.
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After Kimmel introduced the pair had gained, Flannery exclaimed, “What is occurring? What is occurring? What the hell, you guys? Oh my God.” The actors then accepted an enormous verify on behalf of their causes as confetti fell.
Through the competitors, Nuñez and Flannery used their Cellphone-a-Good friend to name The Workplace co-star Brian Baumgartner, making it a real Dunder Mifflin reunion.
Nuñez’s reunion with Flannery on Millionaire comes after he reprised his position as Oscar Martinez on Peacock‘s The Workplace spinoff The Paper, which debuted earlier this month. The comedy sequence stars Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Imappaciatore, Alex Edelman, Gbemisola Ikumelo, and Chelsea Frei.
The Paper co-creators recently told Rolling Stone they first approached Nuñez “years in the past” about coming again as Oscar. “I first pitched this in 2017,” Greg Daniels mentioned. “The Workplace was actually massive on Netflix. It was the primary present on Netflix from 2016 to 2020, I believe. On the time, there was numerous strain [for a spinoff], however I couldn’t do it but as a result of I used to be operating a present referred to as Add for Amazon. However I didn’t need them to start out interested by another person to return be introduced in. So I planted my flag saying, ‘That is going to be about journalism, and Oscar goes to be the character.’
He added, “I met with Oscar and mentioned to him, ‘Inform me when you’re about to take one thing that might intervene with this as a result of possibly we’ll give you some sort of holding deal.’ However I at all times thought that Oscar was the correct character. As a result of so lots of the different Workplace characters within the finale had a closure to their character arcs. They had been going into completely different fields and so they had been going to completely different cities. Oscar nonetheless labored at Dunder Mifflin and didn’t have an infinite change in who he was.”
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