STEVE CARELL

How was it for Steve to play this episode, considering he really was leaving?
Paul Feig: He was a prince. It was very hard for him in the sense that everyone around him was so emotional and he was extremely emotional, too. It was hard for everybody but at some point you just have to get through the day. Once we wrapped, they gathered everybody on the sound stage and they did presentations to Steve and people brought presents and presented him with things. We showed tapes of outtakes and then after that a bunch of us went to another party for him that the cast threw, and that was more sendoff stuff, and John Krasinski put together this amazing video where he got real-life fans of the show and celebrity fans of the show to do a tribute to Steve. I was exhausted at the end of that day. So I could only imagine that Steve was just emotionally raw and numb. But it was a proper outpouring of emotion for a man who is completely deserving of getting that much [attention].