Rainn WilsonThe Office’, who is known for directing one of the most beloved sitcoms, recently weighed in on the show’s themes. In one of his recent appearances, the actor admitted that he thinks the show would never work if it premiered in the present day.Read on to find out more about what he had to share before.
Rainn Wilson He talks about ‘The Office’ and reception
While speaking with Fox News Digital, Wilson talked about his biggest project to date, ‘The Office’. While talking about the spinoff series ‘The Paper’, which is currently in the second season of production, the actor shared that if his series was made in the present day and age, people would not react positively.He added during the interview, “I’m sorry you couldn’t make it to The Office today. I think it would be too harsh to be as politically correct as the show. I think there has been a trend in the media, in favor of what we call more liberal politics.’He also said that sometimes he misses that era of his life. He added: “We milked him for a lot of great and inappropriate things, but even if you paint that character as nothing more than an idiot, I don’t think you can get away with it today.”
More about ‘The Office’
‘The Office’ was a popular sitcom that aired on March 24, 2005, and ended on May 16, 2013. The show follows the lives and problems of all the employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania office of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.Michael Scott, the regional manager of the space, is one of the central characters, as all the employees are connected to random things. The theme of the show revolves around a documentary crew, filming all the characters in the office and learning more about their lives.“The Office” remains one of the most watched and loved TV shows of all time, and to this day, it is a popular choice on OTT platforms. A few years after the end of season 9 of the show, the production houses started a spin-off series called ‘The Paper’. The new series focuses on the lives of the employees of a Midwestern newspaper called the Toledo Truth Teller. The documentary crew shifts focus to the new office, as the newspaper’s employees do their best to revive the dying company before it’s too late for all of them.
