Angela Kinsey ‘Immediately’ Thought of The Office’s Brian Baumgartner for Her Hallmark Movie

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00:00What are some of your favorite holiday traditions that you are looking forward to this year?

00:05Well, one of the things we do is on Christmas Eve, we all get to open one gift, but you don't

00:10get to pick the gift. Someone else has to pick it for you. So if you're eyeballing that big package

00:15in the corner, you don't get to open it, you know. And we get in our cozy Christmas pajamas,

00:20and I love that. And then I love Christmas morning because my husband is a baker, you know,

00:27and he's, he just is, oh my gosh, everything he makes is so good. But he gets up early before

00:33everyone else, and he goes downstairs, and he makes coffee cake. And so when we wake up,

00:39the whole house smells so delicious. And it just, you're like, oh, it's Christmas right away.

00:44Oh my God, that sounds delicious. I want to come to your house this Christmas. That sounds so good.

00:49Do you do like white elephant gifts and things like that? Or are you like,

00:52do you have like a fun game type of family event as well?

00:56Yes, you know, so on The Office, there was the episode where we would play,

01:00we play Yankee Swap, you know, and my character got babies playing jazz.

01:07That old crazy episode. But after that episode aired, I started hosting Yankee Swap parties,

01:13and all of our friends would come over. It's like a version of White Elephant.

01:17And some of my favorite gifts in my house are from that get together.

01:22And I have a butter dish that I actually won. One year, Jenna hosted it, and I won the butter

01:28dish. You would not believe the trading war that happened over this butter dish. It was,

01:34it got fierce, but I won it. That is hysterical. Is it a big office Yankee Swap

01:40that you have every year? Or is it like a mix? It's a mix. It's a total mix. You know,

01:45It's a mix. It's a total mix. You know, our office cast is still very close. So

01:50any of us, if we're in town or near each other, we try to reach out, we try to support each other.

01:56And I love that about our show. I love that too. What was it like having Brian on set for this

02:00movie? So fun. So fun. They told me they were looking for the role of the postman,

02:06and they were open to having a cast member from my office cast play the role. And I immediately

02:12thought of Brian and we, I reached out, I texted him and

02:15he said, yes. And we had the best time. We picked up right where we left off.