“As soon as I saw you walk in Jenna…I genuinely had like a metaphysical event where I was like, ‘Oh, that’s who’s in the show. That person will be in the show,'” he said. He was held back, Fischer went in for an audition round and Krasinski waited. “I remember thinking if I don’t go in with her, I’m screwed.”
Producers told Krasinski to stick around because they wanted him to audition with one more person: Fischer. “I thought, ‘Oh my god, you’re saying there’s a chance.’ Because if I’m in with you, I knew I had a shot,” he said.
“Oh my god, John, I can go back to that moment that I saw you at the audition and I had the exact same reaction. I’ve tried to describe it to people…the best explanation I could come up with was what if you walked into a room and music started playing and you and another person just started dancing in unison even though you’d never met. That’s what it was like audition with you,” Fischer said.