Dwight Schrute, superhero? Rainn Wilson of ‘The Office’ talks about his head-splitting new movie
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Rainn Wilson can play so many more dimensions than just Dwight Schrute, the smarmy know-it-all on NBC’s workplace comedy ‘The Office.’ Why, in his wacky new movie ‘Super,’ Wilson’s character has his skull cracked open so God can touch his brain.
‘It’s not a true story, just so you know,’ the actor helpfully explained in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Indeed. Wilson plays a crazed vigilante who fashions himself as Crimson Bolt, a tight-costumed righter of wrongs, which includes chasing down people who cut in line at theaters.
‘You have tonal shifts from really sincere crying to animated sequences to hyper-violence to farcical comedy,’ Wilson said. “It’s equal parts Travis Bickle and Napoleon Dynamite. I love all the different places the movie goes. There is a lot of it that you just don’t see coming.’
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‘Office’ fans, what do you think of Wilson’s latest role? Will you check it out?
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-Scott Collins (Twitter: @scottcollinsLAT)
