Rainn Wilson

speaker

443 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 26 Jul

Rainn Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

TED Talks Daily · Sunday Pick: The Office’s Rainn Wilson on meaning and happiness | ReThinking with Adam Grant · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

There's very few people, trust me, in Hollywood that work in that way.

So he didn't have an ego about it.

And that generated a good feeling in the cast that was pretty astonishing.

I remember we had a director came in who had just come from directing a show that shall not be named, Desperate Housewives.

And

And he said, oh my God.

First of all, no one on that show is even talking to each other and they wait in their trailers until they absolutely have to come out and many of them won't do scenes together.

But you guys not only six years in talk to each other, like you love each other.

You come in, you hug, you high five, you laugh.

And we kind of all, as we were shooting it, we were all kind of new, like, you know what?

This is probably gonna be the best job we ever have, hands down.

Well, one of the things that was astonishing to us in making The Office was how popular it was with high school and college kids who had never set foot in an office.

We thought we were making a show for work folk in their twenties and thirties that had a jerk boss and had office romances and struggles in the office.

And that's what we thought we were making the show for.

And then all of a sudden we were like the number one show among teenagers.

But the other thing that's pretty nuts is

I cannot tell you how many times I've seen written online or people have actually told me that they longed to work in a place like Dunder Mifflin.

And I think they're getting confused.

I have so many questions.

The spirit of the show, the heart of the show, the love by, for, and in between the characters that's revealed in the show, the vulnerabilities are what people fall in love with.

Showing 101–120 of 443 · page 6 of 23