{"id":1968688,"date":"2023-07-10T15:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T19:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rainn-wilson-says-he-was-mostly-unhappy-filming-the-office-because-it-wasnt-enough\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T19:11:52","slug":"rainn-wilson-says-he-was-mostly-unhappy-filming-the-office-because-it-wasnt-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rainn-wilson-says-he-was-mostly-unhappy-filming-the-office-because-it-wasnt-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainn Wilson admits he felt mostly unhappy while filming &#8216;The Office&#8217; as it didn&#8217;t fulfill him."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frainn-wilson-says-he-was-mostly-unhappy-filming-the-office-because-it-wasnt-enough%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1968688&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Actor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rainn Wilson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, best known for playing Dwight Schrute on the NBC workplace comedy \u201cThe Office,\u201d recently revealed some of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/affinity-groups-the-lefts-new-term-for-segregation\/\" title=\"Affinity Groups: The Left\u2019s New Term For Segregation\">negative feelings<\/a> about his time on the series. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Rainn Wilson Opens Up About His Time on &#8220;The Office&#8221;<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During an appearance on Bill Maher\u2019s \u201cClub Random\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nAZ9T5qcD2k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>, the 57-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">actor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> admitted that he became obsessed with becoming more successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen I signed up for \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/television\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u2019 it\u2019s like, I want to buy a house, Bill Maher, I want to buy a house\u2026I wasn\u2019t thinking about giving laughter 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,\u201d Wilson said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen I was in \u2018The Office,\u2019 I spent several years really mostly unhappy because it wasn\u2019t enough. This is what I\u2019m looking at now, and I\u2019m realizing now, like, I\u2019m on a hit show, Emmy nominated every year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-and-the-big-guy-are-in-real-trouble\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden And \u2018The Big Guy\u2019 Are In Real Trouble\">making lots<\/a> of money working with, like, Steve Carell and Jenna Fisher and John Krasinski and these amazing writers and incredible directors like Paul Feig,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m on one of the great TV shows. People love it. I wasn\u2019t enjoying it. I was thinking about, \u2018Why am I not a movie star? Why am I not the next Jack Black or the next Will Ferrell? How come I can\u2019t have a movie career? Why don\u2019t I have this development deal,\u2019\u201d Wilson said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He also mentioned how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rainn-wilson-says-he-was-mostly-unhappy-filming-the-office-because-it-wasnt-enough\/\" title=\"Rainn Wilson admits he felt mostly unhappy while filming 'The Office' as it didn't fulfill him.\">success bred dissatisfaction<\/a> and the desire to earn more and more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen I was on \u2018The Office,\u2019 I was clutching and grasping at okay, 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. Humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, and never enough has helped us as a species,\u201d Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/rainn-wilson-the-office-money-bill-maher-interview-unhappy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continued<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The actor made headlines in March when he acknowledged that there was \u201canti-Christian bias\u201d in the entertainment industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Rainn Wilson Addresses Anti-Christian Bias in Hollywood<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI do think there is an anti-Christian bias in Hollywood. As soon as the David character in \u2018The Last of Us<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-office-actor-rainn-wilson-declares-there-is-an-anti-christian-bias-in-hollywood\/\" title=\"The Office actor Rainn Wilson declares 'there is an anti-Christian bias in Hollywood'\">\u2019 started reading<\/a> from the Bible I knew that he was going to be a horrific villain,\u201d Wilson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-office-actor-rainn-wilson-admits-theres-anti-christian-bias-in-hollywood-following-the-last-of-us-episode\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shared<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Twitter. \u201cCould there be a Bible-reading preacher on a show who is actually loving and kind?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Rainn Wilson, famous as Dwight Schrute on &#8220;The Office,&#8221; opened up about his negative experience on the show. Speaking on Bill Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, the 57-year-old actor confessed his obsession with achieving greater success. Wilson admitted that he had signed up for the series with the intention of becoming more successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1968689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}