Rainn Wilson recalls his surprise when 'The Office' experienced a revival on Netflix and also looks back on his career-making role on 'Six Feet Under'
and his latest film,When Tom Hanks revealed his COVID diagnosis on Mar. 11 and a series of dominoes began to fall from there, did theAbsolutely. I remember texting Gillian Flynn and being like, “WTF!” over and over and over again. Like how is this possible? We wrapped shooting in September of 2019 and by December, there’s a mysterious virus in China. And then, in March, we’re in a pandemic.
During the introduction of your character, Dr. Michael Stearns, he pleads for a piece of equipment just so he can “do some science,” and his frustration probably reflects how much of our scientific community feels right now. Is it easy for you to imagine real-life scientists hitting similar roadblocks as they try to solve our various crises?
Absolutely. Yeah, it’s really uncanny. I have no idea how people are going to react.
All of a sudden, I just noticed like, “This is getting recognized. I’m getting recognized more and more. What is happening? It’s not going away. There’s more memes. There’s more pictures. There’s more videos. There’s more YouTube content being shared.” And it was the Netflix effect. I kind of think we were the show that launched Netflix in a weird way. Obviously, they had some other good shows, but I thinkhas been the anchor for Netflix the last five years.
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