An interview with John Krasinski of NBC’s The Office on the release of Leatherheads. But more interestingly, the interview touches upon his first directorial effort: making David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men :

[A]ll of a sudden I got “The Office,” and right after we shot the pilot, I took pretty much all the money that I had made on that and bought the rights for a film. His agent said no at first, so I flew out to L.A. and sat with her, and said: “I know that I’m young, and I haven’t really done anything, but your client, he wrote an incredible book. I just wanted more people to know about David Foster Wallace.”

(thx, bill)