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Rainn Wilson: “The Office” Star on His Awkward Childhood, The Joy of Being Dwight Schrute, and His Mission to Make Us More Mindful

The Great Creators with Guy Raz

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How I Came Out of My Shell

I'd always thought about doing acting and I had kind of a longing to try it. So we moved to this new high school and I took an acting class, which required me to come out of my shell. And that's really when you...because from everything I've read about you and your own descriptions of your early childhood, it's like, okay, it was just awkward kind of geeky, weird, you know, just didn't fit in.

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