From Seattle to Scranton, Rainn Wilson's Journey to 'The Office'

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 1, 2016

This is a rebroadcast from an interview that originally aired on November 5, 2015.

For nine seasons of The Office, Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. In The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy, he explains his unusual childhood, growing up on a houseboat in Seattle, in the jungles of Nicaragua, and encountering a bassoon in suburban Washington. 

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