When they were shooting the pilot episode of The Office, Steve Carell told Rainn Wilson that playing Dwight Schrute could change his life forever. And he could not have been more right.

In this episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Wilson breaks down his unique career journey from working character actor to sitcom star all the way through his latest film Code 3 (in theaters Friday Sept. 12) in which he plays a burnt out paramedic alongside fellow comedian Lil Rel Howery. His role in the new movie, as well as much of what he has done since The Office ended in 2013, feels very different from Dwight, and purposefully so. Wilson opens up about the massive blessing and occasional curse of being so closely associated with such a popular character.

Then, addressing the perennial question about

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