Ron Livingston was on Late Night yesterday and the first thing Seth Meyers asked him about was Office Space. Which has to be the best workplace movie ever made even though Jennifer Aniston was in it.
Anyways, Livingston said that out of all of the characters that he has ever played, Peter Gibbons is the one that most people stop to talk to him about. Some of them tell him, “‘This movie and you were the reason I quit my job and gave up my livelihood.'” How does he react? He waits a few seconds and then tells them, “Good for you.” He wants to make sure that they don’t him what Milton did as revenge for taking his stapler. Poor Milton.
That movie has never made me want to quit my job, but I did have fantasies about taking a printer/fax machine to an abandoned field and beating the crap out of it with a baseball bat. How orgasmic would that be?
When it comes to Livingston’s new show A Million Little Things, just watch Office Space or anything else instead.
