California will bring out both the best, and worst, in the Dunder Mifflinites simply by being the big man on a small campus. "He always feels like the alpha male in the room, which is really exciting, especially because everyone on our show is funny with an alpha male," co-executive producer B.J. Novak says. "He's extremely intelligent, almost too intelligent. He's an intellectual, and we've never had an intellectual in the Scranton office before so it's very funny to hear him talk to people."
Fittingly, Dwight (Rainn Wilson) will feel threatened by the new boss. "Dwight is extremely torn around Robert California because, on the one hand, Dwight wants to be an alpha male, on the other hand, Dwight admires nothing more than an alpha male who will put him in his place, which is what Michael Scott was to him," Novak says. "So Dwight is torn between loyalty and competition."
The three front-runners? Darryl (Craig Robinson), Dwight and Andy (Ed Helms), Novak says, adding: "Those became the three leading candidates in our minds when it came time to shoot."
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