The Paper star Domhnall Gleeson is setting the record straight when it comes to the kind of character he’ll be playing in The Office spinoff.

The actor spoke candidly to People about his new TV gig and made it clear that drawing comparisons between The Paper , which is officially set to debut on Peacock this fall, and the former NBC comedy isn’t necessarily the right thing to do. “I don’t think my character’s like Michael Scott at all,” Gleeson revealed.

As viewers will recall, Steve Carell played Michael Scott, the manager of Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton, Pennsylvania branch, and he was known for being a bit of a personality. “I think if you’re trying to compete with what Steve did or with what Ricky Gervais did, I think it would be a massive mistake,” Gleeson iterated, r

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