John Krasinski, who first gained fame on ‘The Office,’ relates what it was like when he was told he was going to be People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive.’

“Just immediate blackout, actually. Zero thoughts,” he tells the magazine in this week’s cover story. “Other than maybe I’m being punked. That’s not how I wake up, thinking, ‘Is this the day that I’ll be asked to be Sexiest Man Alive?’ And yet it was the day you guys did it. You guys have really raised the bar for me.”