John Krasinski makes rare confession about stealing prop from 'The Office' set

John Krasinski, on his final day of filming, finally admitted to stealing a significant item from The Office set.

The actor-director recently visited Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey's Office Ladies Revisit podcast to share memories of the Emmy-winning comedy series on NBC.

During their talk, Krasinski remembered one of his last times filming the show, when Greg Daniels, the creator of 'evil genius', accompanied the group to a dive bar that was one of the characters' favourite places to shoot a scene.

The Quiet Place actor recalled witnessing the whole cast of the episode gathered around as she left the set for the final time after multiple takes of filming.

“I’m choking up just talking about it, but then when you come back in and see your TV dad and all of your family waiting there and clapping, and [Greg] said, ‘That’s the end of The Office,’ I think the colour black came out of my mouth. It was just the scariest, most beautiful, horrific moment of my life,” Krasinski said.

But soon after the tearful scene on set, the writer-director of IF disclosed that he had gone and taken the Dunder Mifflin corporate sign.

“I’ve always lied to Greg that I didn’t take it, but I did. I stole it,” Krasinski confessed.

On their last day, Kinsey, who played Angela, recalled seeing the actor shove the sign into the back of his car, calling it "one of her favourite memories."

“I was like, don’t look over here!” Krasinski recalled. “It wasn’t quite dark enough, so it just looked like I was putting a body in a car.”

Daniels then asked him about the whereabouts of the sign during The Office wrap party, he continued, but Krasinski insisted he had nothing to do with it going missing.

“He goes, ‘Aw, that was the one thing I wanted,'” the actor said.

Set in the same universe as The Office, which ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013, Peacock revealed last week that the untitled comedy had received a formal series order. Daniels and Michael Koman co-created the new show.