Hollywood is a hard business to make it in, but not a hard business to figure out. He knew he was going to get lost so he kept his look, carved out a career as a character actor and always had work. Studios were always pushing him to style himself differently and go for Rock Hudson kind of roles. Brian Dennehy (RIP!) once said something similar to Rainn. Maybe that’s who Rainn wanted to look like once upon a time, we all have our physical ideal. I find Josh Brolin such an interesting choice of actor to compare himself to. “What do leading men even do in their spare time? Gut trout?” I’m not out there hunting, driving a truck or …” He throws up his hands in mock-exasperation. Also, sensibility-wise, I’m weird! I play chess, I play the bassoon, I read science fiction. “I had agents who were, like: ‘You need to get your teeth fixed, build loads of muscles and lose weight.’ But I realised early on that I was in the character actor tradition. That was a lesson learned in his earliest days as an actor. I’m never going to be Josh Brolin no matter how much I want it.” “With me, it’s like – I don’t even want to go directly for ‘odd’ – but I’m an offbeat-looking guy who probably has a comedic side, just because I have this big, weird face. “When you put a camera on someone, you’re seeing a lot of what’s already there,” he says. That he can embody these disparate qualities is, he thinks, partly an accident of physiognomy. On screen, he can be spookily reserved and unreachable, or gauche and goofy, as he is as a credulous alien in Galaxy Quest or a failed heavy metal drummer in The Rocker. Today’s beard and baseball cap, as well as his chipper demeanour, banishes all memory of the pasty face, DIY haircut and startled expression he wore in that show. Wilson earned three Emmy nominations for playing the livid, disagreeable Dwight, the Rust Belt equivalent of Mackenzie Crook’s Gareth. That Pennsylvania city provided the setting for the US version of the mockumentary sitcom The Office, which ran for nine widely adored, award-winning series. No such preciousness from Rainn Wilson, who appears on camera from his Los Angeles home wearing a grey T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Scranton”. Some actors associated with a signature role will tire of talking about it. Unfortunately, that same face has kept him from leading man territory, but Rainn said he made peace with that a while ago. And because he’s not a Hollywood pretty boy, he has more character options, too. I always default to comedy when I think of Rainn, but he has range. Rainn is promoting his new thriller, Don’t Tell a Soul. And that he wrote an autobiography, The Bassoon King, in which all that information is given. Like I just found out from this Guardian interview that Rainn had a somewhat nomadic childhood, and he is an adherent of the Bahaí’í faith. I particularly enjoyed him playing against Allison Janney on Mom. I can’t even explain why, I just enjoy him. Rainn has also voice Luthor in Reign of the Supermen, Batman: Hush, and Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, all of which have garnered a significant amount of attention from DC fans.A post shared by Rainn Wilson have kind of a soft spot for Rainn Wilson. While there are a ton of differences between Dwight and Luthor, Rainn Wilson clearly has the range to be a perfect fit for both men.Īccording to IMDb, 2018’s The Death of Superman marked the first time that Rainn Wilson would voice Lex Luthor, and he has since gone on to do three more films for DC as the character. While voicing Lex Luthor is not quite the same as portraying him on the big screen, it is still pretty cool to see that Rainn Wilson has locked down one of DC’s premiere characters in their animated universe. We can only imagine that his time as Dwight was instrumental in him landing the role of Lex Luthor in the animated DC films. One of the great things about portraying Dwight on The Office was that it gave the Rainn Wilson the opportunity to show people what he can do in a villainous type of role, albeit in comedic fashion. So, what has Wilson been up to since The Office hit the bricks? Let’s take a look and see just how busy he’s been! He’s Lex Luthor In DC Animated Films
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