Below, Gregg opens up about Detrick\u2019s journey in Season 1, his romance with Nicole, hopes for Season 2, and the importance of shining a light on journalism with the new comedy.<\/p>\n
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How was it forming the Detrick and Nicole romance storyline with Ramona Young? His interest in her manifests in some interesting gifts, including a terrifyingly crafted bird.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nMelvin Gregg:<\/strong> It wasn\u2019t terrifying. [Laughs<\/em>]<\/p>\nMaybe not terrifying, but it was a little strange.<\/strong><\/p>\nSo, there\u2019s a lot of room for improvement, but I think with things like that, it\u2019s received based on how much you like the guy. So if it\u2019s a guy that you are really into and he does that, it\u2019s like, \u201cOh my god, he\u2019s so sweet.\u201d But if you\u2019re really not into it, it\u2019s like, \u201cOh, he\u2019s a creep.\u201d My first meeting with Ramona, we had to do the chemistry read, and the producers gave us a minute to get to know each other. And they turned the camera on and walked out of the room, and it was just like, \u201cHi, where are you from?\u201d Just real small talk. I think we built a lot of chemistry, and filming, [we] spent a lot of time together. We shared a lot of scenes, so we had a lot of downtime together. We ate lunch together, and then our characters were getting to know each other, too, so I don\u2019t think they needed to have chemistry in the beginning. Our chemistry grew as the characters\u2019 chemistry [did].<\/p>\n
Was there any storyline you were particularly excited to tackle? The product testing seemed fun, although Detrick seemed to get off easier than others, especially compared to Nicole\u2019s kombucha tasting.<\/strong><\/p>\nYeah, I think so. They were writing as we were filming, so it was kind of week by week, but that was a fun episode. We had to test all the stuff. I will say I kind of got off easy in the sense that Detrick got off easy, but I don\u2019t think Melvin got off easy. [Ramona and others] had to act sick; they weren\u2019t really sick. I had to actually wear this thing on my face, which was kind of uncomfortable, and I had to keep remembering to turn the light on. If the light went off and we were filming, we had to stop and reshoot it because the light went off. So it was a little bit more work, but it was a fun episode.<\/p>\n
What do you hope to see next for Detrick?<\/strong><\/p>\nI like to think that he has a lot of potential, but he still has a way to go. He\u2019s very optimistic, he\u2019s enthusiastic, he\u2019s a hopeless romantic, he\u2019s trying to figure it out, but he\u2019s a people pleaser, so he\u2019s just trying to do what he thinks everyone wants. You know what I mean? He\u2019s happy to be here, a what-do-you-need type of guy. I think that what he\u2019s going through with Nicole, his perspective has shifted a little bit. It didn\u2019t work out for him. And I think as he takes more agency over himself, his job, and gets a little bit more confidence in comes into his own, he will be a hero.<\/p>\n
Nicole breaks off her and Detrick\u2019s romance when she learns he lied about keeping things casual by dating other people, when he was really only dating her. How do you think he\u2019d feel knowing she\u2019s sobbing about it in the hotel room with Mare?<\/strong><\/p>\nI think he\u2019d care. He\u2019d want her to be okay, but he\u2019d also realize that he did all he could, and she didn\u2019t appreciate it. And now that he\u2019s not there, she\u2019s sobbing, and people don\u2019t realize what they have until he\u2019s gone; it might light a different fire. He wants to get better, but I think Detrick\u2026 people are seeing him more, and things have changed. This is the first glance of Nicole seeing who he was and what she might\u2019ve missed out on.<\/p>\n
How did it feel to join\u00a0The Office<\/em> universe while also shining a light on the importance of journalism?<\/strong><\/p>\nNowadays, with social media, anybody can be a journalist, anybody can put bold font on a picture, and people believe it without looking at sources. So I think it\u2019s great that these guys are shining the light on journalism on a local level. I think it brings the community together, local newspaper, and within this local newspaper, this team creates community. As far as the show being from The Office<\/em> [universe], it\u2019s just from the same world, but it\u2019s a different show. I like to compare it to an artist making different pieces, or two siblings from the same parents. This show is like a sister or a sibling to The Office<\/em>, but it\u2019s a different show. I think once people get into it, they\u2019ll see that it is a different show and they\u2019ll learn to love it.<\/p>\nThe Paper<\/strong><\/em>, Season 1, Streaming now, Peacock<\/strong><\/p>\nMore Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Paper\u00a0Season 1.] The Paper is bringing viewers back to\u00a0The Office with a new set of stars as the Peacock comedy follows employees at\u00a0The Toledo Truth Teller, a struggling Midwestern paper. One of those workers is Melvin Gregg\u2018s affable Detrick Moore, who serves as an ad sales guy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2008043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-2008042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018The-Paper-Melvin-Gregg-Breaks-Down-Detricks-Complicated-Romance-With.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}