Rainn Wilson Says He Spent Years ‘Mostly Unhappy’ While Making ‘The Office': ‘I Wanted to Be a Movie Star’
Rainn Wilson Says He Spent Years ‘Mostly Unhappy’ While Making ‘The Office': ‘I Wanted to Be a Movie Star’ Rainn Wilson opened up about his experience filming beloved sitcom “The Office” during an appearance on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast that debuted on Sunday, revealing that he struggled with feeling his career was stalling despite being on a juggernaut hit TV show. “When I was in ‘The Office,’ I spent several years really mostly unhappy because it wasn’t enough,” Wilson told Maher. “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.” Wilson expressed that he’s now fully aware of how fortunate he was to work on “The Office”, but ultimately, at the time, the actor longed for bigger and better things. “This is what I’m looking at now and realizing now: I’m on a hit show, Emmy nominated every year, making lots of money working with, like, Steve Carell and Jenna Fisher and John Krasinski and th...