Rainn Wilson: ‘The Office’ left me feeling unfulfilled — I wanted more
nypost.comthe actor who played him. “When I was in ‘The Office,’ I spent several years really mostly unhappy because it wasn’t enough,” Rainn Wilson, 57, said on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, according to an early transcript from the interview.
Wilson starred as Dwight for all nine seasons of the hit NBC workplace comedy, earning three Emmy nominations along the way (for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy) — no small feat considering the show was almost cancelled early on in its estimable run.Despite the success, according to Wilson, he was left feeling unfulfilled.“I was making hundreds of thousands.
I wanted millions, and I was a TV star, but I wanted to be a movie star. It was never enough,” he said. “I’m on a hit show, Emmy nominated every year, making lots of money working with, like, Steve Carell and Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski and these amazing writers and incredible directors like Paul Feig,” he said. “I’m on one of the great TV shows.
People love it. I wasn’t enjoying it.” His reasons for his unhappiness were because he still wasn’t a huge star, he said. “I was thinking about, ‘Why am I not a movie star?
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