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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
He is an amazing man and artist, and his films My Dinner with Andre and Vanya on 42nd Street were HUGE inspirations to me (watch them!). For a few weeks he once gathered a group of lost actor souls in a loft in the Garment District, and we would do these strange body exercises called plastiques.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Donald Glover in an interview with The New Yorker: “Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”
- IF YOU THINK YOU’RE BEING FUNNY, YOU’RE NOT BEING FUNNY My least-favorite kind of comedy acting is the kind where the performers know they’re just being hysterical.