Actor Rainn Wilsonacquired candid about his time starring as Dwight Schrute within the beloved NBC office comedy, The Workplace.
Throughout a current look at FAN EXPO San Francisco 2025, alongside his Workplace castmate, Angela Kinsey, who performed Dwight’s love curiosity, Angela Martin, Wilson shared that he wished he had loved filming the sitcom extra. In accordance with Wilson, his Workplace castmates, Ed Helms, who performed Andy Bernard, and B.J. Novak, who starred as Ryan Howard and was one of many present’s writers, share the identical opinion.
“It is one thing that I’ve shared with quite a lot of Workplace members. Ed Helms was one I spoke to about this and B.J. Novak I spoke to about it, that one in every of our regrets is that we did not get pleasure from it extra,” mentioned Wilson in the course of the interview.
He clarified that he and his Workplace castmates “loved it a ton” in the course of the present’s manufacturing. Nonetheless, as actors on a profitable present, they needed to leap on the subsequent alternative earlier than the second handed.
“You’re employed so exhausting as an actor and also you’re broke ceaselessly and also you’re getting little roles after which swiftly like when your break hits, you need to benefit from it,” mentioned the actor in the course of the FAN EXPO panel. “So, , swiftly I had alternatives to, , star in films and develop different TV exhibits and get manufacturing offers and do industrial campaigns. And generally you can be so targeted on these different points of your profession that like the best job that you’re going to ever have is in your lap, and also you sort of neglect simply actually savoring how particular and wealthy that have is.”
Wilson additionally shared that he believes not totally having fun with the second is a common expertise.
“I feel perhaps that is one thing that we will all expertise. You recognize, generally highschool is your greatest time of your life,” mentioned Wilson to the FAN EXPO viewers. “Generally it is faculty. Generally it is a work expertise or a trip, however you are desirous about what is the subsequent factor. So, it is sort of a entice of how happiness works.”
Wilson performed Dwight all through all 9 seasons of The Workplace, which led to 2013. After the sitcom ended, Wilson appeared in a number of in style initiatives, like Star Trek: Discovery, Mother, and Classes in Chemistry, as reported by IMDb.
