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And he really taught me that same sense of how to be creative all the time. Wilson: You're gonna try to make me cry, aren't you? (Laughs) He was always being creative: every day, he was drawing, he was writing. What’s one awesome thing you will always remember about your dad? Yes, a tremendous amount of grief, but also just an intense gratitude for what we have and how precious life is. And that's what I experienced with my father's passing as well. But it really is about life and a celebration of family and of being alive.

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“Blackbird” is a movie about death on its surface. You can pretend to know what death is like and as an actor, you fake it and pretend, but there's no substitute for the real thing. Wilson: I had never experienced a death in the family other than my wife's grandmother, who I was not that close to. Do the themes of “Blackbird” resonate more with you now? I was so sorry to hear about your dad passing away last month. Hopefully, I'll get a chance over the next decade or two to play some other ones. So for me, I want to find those exceptional characters. Give me an offbeat character going on a journey and I want to hitch my wagon to that guy.

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But I did theater for 10 years before I did any TV or film, in which I played dozens of roles from Moliere to Shakespeare to Eugene O'Neill. Wilson: My challenge as an actor is I'm very well known for this one role of Dwight Schrute.

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“Utopia” is your biggest show since “The Office.” What did you learn from that, and the short-lived 2015 Fox detective series “Backstrom,” you take forward now? “I was able to kind of take an issue that I was passionate about, learn about it and get that out to a bigger audience,” says Wilson, who says he's dedicated to “trying to figure out what I can do to help make the world a better place.” He’s also currently assisting his 15-year-old son Walter in remote-learning Algebra: “We're only two or three weeks into the school year, so we'll figure it out.” 'Utopia' is just one part of the current Rainnaissance: Wilson, 54, also stars in the drama “Blackbird” (streaming and on demand) alongside Susan Sarandon as a mother with Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) wanting to end her life after one last family gathering, Kate Winslet as her daughter and Wilson as Winslet’s husband, 'who's a little bit of a doofus and finds his voice.' (The entire cast got little blackbird tattoos to commemorate the experience - Wilson’s is on his left bicep.) And Wilson started the web docuseries “An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change” and has interviewed folks like teen activist Greta Thunberg. 'Blackbird': Susan Sarandon talks 'heart-wrenching' COVID goodbyes, faces death

Are people going to be able to really see and enjoy this show?” “I was texting (creator and writer) Gillian Flynn the whole time, like ‘OMG, is this really happening? Is what our show is about happening on the world stage? This is crazy.’ And it still is a question mark. “It's mind-blowing' that he wrapped shooting 'Utopia' in September, the coronavirus started in China in December and had hit here by March, while 'they were editing this show about a pandemic. “It is absolutely eerie,” Wilson says of the long-gestating series, in which he stars as virologist Michael Stearns. No, really.Īmazon’s “Utopia” (now streaming), is a dark comedy thriller centering on a group of conspiracy-minded comic book fans who believe an underground graphic novel might be foretelling present and future events, including a sickness that's infecting kids across the country. Watch Video: 'Blackbird' exclusive first trailer: Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet starįor those who thought “The Office” hit close to home, just wait till you see Rainn Wilson’s new TV show about a global pandemic.

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