Rainn Wilson

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3,063 appearances 12 recordings 7 series first heard Jul 2024 last heard 7 Jul

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

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The Comment Section with Drew Afualo · THE OCEAN HEALED MY RABIES Ft. Rainn Wilson · 24 Jul 2024 podcast

Greg Daniels, the showrunner, he had grandparents that were farmers.

and then I you know the Dungeons and Dragons stuff was you know I brought that in that was part of my background and like you know I did a lot of work kind of physically I actually in acting school we studied clowning a lot really like not like Ringling Brothers like big floppy feet falling down with pies clowns but like clowning kind of like you know like Borat as a clown character like how do you create a

you know, a character that's a little larger than life, but fits into the real world and has kind of very physically, you know, minded.

And so...

I thought about Dwight in a lot of ways as the self-serious, officious clown who was also kind of a stuck-up, a kiss-ass, you know?

So it's a melange of a lot of things.

The writers threw in great stuff, and I did some physical work, and Mackenzie Crook had his take, and so it's a melange.

You kind of touched on it in the introduction.

One of the things I didn't appreciate enough while we were doing it was how groundbreaking it was.

And at the time, there were a lot of big, bright, splashy, multi-camera sitcoms, like Friends on the air.

And then we came in, and it was kind of very low-key, weird-looking actors, fluorescent lights, and really odd verbal humor that wasn't quite jokes.

There was never quite a joke in the office.

It's just like...

odd, funny characters and funny situations.

So I kind of wish I had leaned into that more and appreciated that more, especially what the writers were doing.

Did you steal the DVDs from Netflix back in the day?

I didn't.

I wish I did.

They'd be relics now.

I think one thing that people really, the reason it's kind of stood the test of time is that there's, you can watch an episode three times and on the fourth viewing see a whole new reactions and hear little lines that you're like, oh my God, I had never even picked up on that before.

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