Rainn Wilson’s motivation for taking a role in “The Office” was simply money, and it wasn’t all sunshine and roses.
The star actor became famous for playing Dwight Schrute on the classic NBC series, and he’ll forever be remembered for giving an all-time performance.
Following Steve Carell’s exit from the series, Wilson really help carry “The Office” past the finish line. Well, it turns out his goal when signing up wasn’t to create one of the greatest shows ever made.
“When I signed up for ‘The Office,’ it’s like, I want to buy a house, Bill Maher, I want to buy a house…I wasn’t thinking about giving laughters as a therapeutic remedy and a balm and a salve to a hurting populace. What an honor it was to be a part of something like that,” Wilson told Maher when talking about why he took the job, according to a transcript provided early to OutKick.
Being a hit TV show would probably be awesome for a lot of people. However, it wasn’t for a long time for Rainn Wilson.
“When I was in ‘The Office,’ I spent several years really mostly unhappy because it wasn’t enough.
This is what I’m looking at now, and I’m realizing now, like, I’m on a hit show, Emmy nominated every year, making lots of money working with, like, Steve Carell and Jenna Fisher and John Krasinski and these amazing writers and incredible directors like Paul Feig. I’m on one of the great TV shows.
People love it. I wasn’t enjoying it. I was thinking about, “Why am I not a movie star? Why am I not the next Jack Black or the next Will Ferrell?
How come I can’t have a movie career? Why don’t I have this development deal,” Wilson explained later in the interview when talking about how he couldn’t stop chasing the dragon that is success.
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