SPOILER WARNING! Video contains new Office footage.
Rainn Wilson was featured on ABC’s Nightline last night:
Words barely describe Dwight Shrute, the suck-up salesman and assistant regional manager of the Scranton branch for the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
But Rainn Wilson, the actor who plays Shrute on NBC’s “The Office,” has a few for you. “Dweeby, fascistic, power-grubbing, hierarchical. Is that a word? Annoying and self-serious. How’s that? Those would be, those are seven words. I was counting them on my fingers,” Wilson said during an interview in his home outside Los Angeles. “And bizarre,” Wilson added. “Did I say bizarre? I didn’t say bizarre, throw that in the mix.”
Tipster: ddker
Cool, but that’s lame they can’t even spell Schrute right.
I so totally concur.
Can someone post this on You Tube tomorrow? It would be much appreciated. I won’t be able to watch tonight.
I can’t believe ABC is doing a story about an actor on a NBC show.
Kind of weird, huh?
Thanks for the heads up! I’m heading over to tivo.com to program the recording now, lol.
I love Rainn, he is soooo funny!!!! And yes, somebody please put it on youtube tomorrow!!!!
Wow! They’ve already fixed the Schrute spelling – do you think they monitor Office Tally…scary!!
Yay us! :)
I plan on recording it and getting it on YouTube sometime tomarrow. I may not get it up until after I get off of work though.
I just saw it! There was even a teeny little bit from an upcoming Office scene in the background at one point (I’m guessing it was the one Angela mentioned she and Rainn were filming during an evening a few weeks back). It looks good!
That was fun to watch. Rainn is just so great. Oh also they showed a little bit of season 4 filming…. Don’t want to talk about it on here because it’s a spoiler, but it looked good!
[from tanster: please proofread and re-post. thanks!]
Denise —
“I may not get it up until after I get off of work though. ”
That’s what she said.
Too easy….. (that’s what she said too!)
Ok, I need to go to bed.
Wilson is 41 years old? Wow.
OMG, I bet they see Jim and Pam out on a date at that restaurant.
Assistant TO the regional mgr…come on abc!!!
wait – rainn is 41? wow that’s older than my mom
I really am wondering what is with the interviewer’s tan. It’s kinda George Hamilton-esque.
Didn’t care for the ABC interviewer, Brian Rooney or whatever? He seemed to dislike Rainn (or Dwight? or The Office?), & he had some inappropriate jabs, I thought. But! Rainn was a champ, & he made me proud of him — an upbeat gentleman.
LOVED the open letter to NBC — so ironic it was written before the big stink.