"No, I'm not sick of talking about The Office," sighs Martin Freeman, who played the lovelorn Tim on the beloved British series. "I really do understand people's fascination with it. To do one of the most-talked-about shows in the last few years this early on in my career... that opportunity doesn't come along very often. It's definitely a thing to beat."
Freeman shouldn't be too concerned about equaling past triumphs. After all, he's currently starring in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which topped the box-office charts this past weekend in America, Australia and Freeman's home country, England.
Based on Douglas Adams' classic book, the movie casts the actor as Arthur Dent, one of the only human survivors left after Earth is destroyed to make room for a hyper-space bypass. The book's sizable fanbase has been waiting for the movie for more than two decades, and its members were more than a little concerned when Hollywood got invo
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