From L-R, that’s Amber, John Krasinski, me, Jamsky and Pizza. The girls and I went to see David Sedaris at the Blumenthal yesterday. As we wealk inside to lobby, Amber spots a tall skinny guy and excitedly whispers, “OHMYGOD is that Jim??” and we told her no way, but it totally looks like him. A guy next to her told her it WAS in fact the guy who plays Jim Halpert from the Office. Here! In Charlotte! We pass by and stand about 15 feet away, trying to act nonchalant but not really pulling it off. We also realize that the short, skinny wrinkly blonde next to him was Renee Zellwegger! Who looks horrible in person! We wanted to get John’s autograph, but were faced with 2 dilemmas:
1) We didn’t really want to bother him – because what if he turns out to be one of those celebrities who are total jerks to their fans?
2) We really did not care about Renee, unless she could give us Ewan McGregor’s number.
I decided to take the chance and go over to get his autograph. Couldn’t hurt to ask. Renee was on the phone and John was just standing there. I walk up to him (and immediately have a brain fart and had to fight the urge to call him “Jim”) and say, “Excuse me, I’m sorry to bother you, but I just had to tell you that I’m a very big fan of your work. Would it be possible to get your autograph?” And he was SO NICE about it – he signed my journal – it was a brand new journal that I brought to sketch in if I had to wait, and to maybe get David Sedaris’s autograph in – and in fact I told him this, and he signed it “Karen – David Sedaris is WAY cooler! John Krasinski”. Since he was so nice about it, I pushed my chances and asked if he would be ok with taking a picture with me and my friends (standing now 20 feet away and trying to look without being spotted). He said sure, and we took a picture.
Meanwhile, Renee got off the phone, and as I was about to say, “Uh, I like your work too… can I buy you a sandwich?” she walked away.
We asked some stranger to take the picture – good thing Pizza had her camera! – and some jerk tried to get in the picture, which annoyed us and John and the dude taking the picture, who asked her to get out. After, I thanked him and said “Enjoy the show!” and then the girls and I walked away and dissolved into a puddle of giggles.
You should have asked Renee to take the picture. THAT would have been awesome.
Dana’s right – it would have been awesome if you asked her to take the picture for you.
did you happen to see kind of coffee he was drinking??? god… i’m pathetic.
I would have taken the picture, but the camera was too heavy. Holding up my own head is hard enough.
omg you’re SO lucky! is he cuter in person?
you are my hero!!!!!!
oh god, you are so lucky!! I love John… Is he friends with Renee Zellwegger??