Rainn Wilson on Nightline

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.”

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20 comments

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   1. JMB  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 11:49am

   Cool, but that’s lame they can’t even spell Schrute right.

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   2. tanster  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 11:51am

   I so totally concur.

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   3. Flonkerton Rules  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 12:07pm

   Can someone post this on You Tube tomorrow? It would be much appreciated. I won’t be able to watch tonight.

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   4. Matt  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 12:23pm

   I can’t believe ABC is doing a story about an actor on a NBC show.

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   5. tanster  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 12:28pm

   Kind of weird, huh?

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   6. ThatsWhatISaid  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 1:02pm

   Thanks for the heads up! I’m heading over to tivo.com to program the recording now, lol.

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   7. ERB  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 1:57pm

   I love Rainn, he is soooo funny!!!! And yes, somebody please put it on youtube tomorrow!!!!

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   8. TobyFan  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 2:05pm

   Wow! They’ve already fixed the Schrute spelling – do you think they monitor Office Tally…scary!!

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   9. tanster  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 3:46pm

   Yay us! :)

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    10. Denise (ddker)  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 6:28pm

    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.

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    11. Laura  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 8:56pm

    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!

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    12. SchruteBeetFarm  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 9:03pm

    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!

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    13. Matt  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 9:15pm

    [from tanster: please proofread and re-post. thanks!]

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    14. Kristin  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 | 9:22pm

    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.

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    15. Dementia AL  Sat. Sep. 8, 2007 | 12:22pm

    Wilson is 41 years old? Wow.

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    16. Angie  Sat. Sep. 8, 2007 | 2:51pm

    OMG, I bet they see Jim and Pam out on a date at that restaurant.

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    17. d  Sat. Sep. 8, 2007 | 2:56pm

    Assistant TO the regional mgr…come on abc!!!

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    18. Sara  Sat. Sep. 8, 2007 | 4:29pm

    wait – rainn is 41? wow that’s older than my mom

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    19. Callan  Sun. Sep. 9, 2007 | 7:18am

    I really am wondering what is with the interviewer’s tan. It’s kinda George Hamilton-esque.

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    20. Danna  Sun. Sep. 9, 2007 | 7:50pm

    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.

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