Rainn Wilson Says He Was “Mostly Unhappy” While Filming ‘The Office’: “It Wasn’t Enough”
deadline.comRainn Wilson is opening up about his mental health during the years he was filming The Office. The actor who gave life to Dwight Schrute throughout the nine seasons of the U.S.
remake of the British sitcom created by Ricky Gervais was on the Bill Maher podcast Club Random where he revealed being on the show “wasn’t enough.” “When I was in The Office, I spent several years really mostly unhappy because it wasn’t enough,” Wilson said.
He added, “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 noted that he “was making hundreds of thousands.
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