Nearly three years of his young life, however, were spent in Nicaragua with his father and stepmother, who were adherents (as Wilson still is) of the Bahá’í faith. Wilson grew up mainly in suburban Seattle and Chicago. “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. In the psychological thriller The Boy, he was a surly insurance scammer hiding out at a motel after the death of his wife. In the black comedy Super, he played a would-be superhero who is in fact nothing grander than a vicious vigilante in a cape. He has some real dark sides to him.” Moral ambiguity is an area in which Wilson excels: he’s comfortable when the audience isn’t. “We get to see a lot of different sides to my character over the course of the film. The part offered its own challenges, even if overcoming a fear of confined spaces wasn’t one of them. But when I ask what it was like spending most of Don’t Tell a Soul at subterranean level, he sheepishly admits that the “hole” was in fact a chamber built above-ground, with a door in the side, and a platform at the top to which the other actors could ascend to look down at him.
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This isn’t the first time Wilson has been six feet under – he got his big break in Alan Ball’s hit HBO series of that name in the early 2000s, playing Arthur the creepy undertaker. The question is not whether they will use it, but how.
During the pursuit, he plunges into a hole in the forest floor, which leaves the boys with absolute power over him.
In Don’t Tell a Soul, a cross between A Simple Plan and Paranoid Park, he plays an unassuming security guard who gives chase after encountering two teenage brothers (Fionn Whitehead and Jack Dylan Grazer) stealing from a house in rural Kentucky.
“And that’s fine with me.” First, though, there is his new thriller to discuss. “Dwight is the part I’m best known for and always will be,” says the 55-year-old. Wilson has starred in everything from Juno to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and the Jason Statham shark thriller The Meg, but he knows that any conversation will inevitably lead back to The Office. 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”. S ome actors associated with a signature role will tire of talking about it.
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