The Office (American TV series)

Wilson said audiences expect him to behave like Dwight Schrute and unfollow him when he tweets about vaccines or climate change.

“People want me to be Dwight. That's what I mean. They want me to act like Dwight”

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Wilson said he decided early in his career to embrace playing alienated misfits rather than pretend to be something else.

“I'm not gonna pretend to be something that I'm not. And I'm just, I'm gonna play misfits. That's who I am. I'm gonna play alienated misfits and I'm gonna be damn good at it”

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Wilson argued that the label 'character actor' has become limiting in contemporary Hollywood compared with earlier eras.

“back in the day, you could be a character actor that was playing incredible lead, juicy, amazing roles. And now character actor, you're relegated to like the sixth lead”

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Kaling says she loves being turned into a meme because it makes her feel young.

“I love being a meme. It makes me feel young”

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Kaling considers The Office groundbreaking for allowing women on screen who were not conventionally glamorous.

“To be on a show where you didn't have to be like a straightforwardly hot woman”

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Kaling explains she was cast because the Diversity Day episode needed non-white characters for Michael Scott to offend.

“in order for it to be funny that, like, Michael Scott was offending a room of people, it wasn't as funny if it was just, like, all white”

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Padilla says she admired Dwight Schrute because the character played everything from his own truth rather than going for jokes.

“And what was crazy and funny was that he was doing it out of his own truth as a character, so he wasn't trying to go for the joke”

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Billie Eilish says she now rewatches the entire series of The Office several times a year.

“So I probably rewatched the whole series like three or four times a year”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Billie Eilish (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 25:55