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ADVENTURES IN FILM AND TELEVISION
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
good acting should really feel improvised all the time, so that you don’t notice the lines are prewritten. This is also a tremendous compliment to our writers, who wrote such natural-sounding lines that resonated with tremendous absurdity at the same time.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Chapter 9 AN ACTOR REPAIRS
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Chapter 13 WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
- I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
I, in character, started writing some imaginary blog entries for Dwight. I showed them to the producers and they called NBC, who started running them on their website. I believe I was the very first actor to write a blog as his character. It was a lot of fun, and writing as him helped me understand Dwight’s voice.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Her heroes were the performance artists of the downtown scene: Spalding Gray, Anna Deavere Smith, the Five Lesbian Brothers, Eric Bogosian, Rachel Rosenthal, Karen Finley, and most of all, our idols, the Wooster Group.