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Dwight Schrute, the death doula.
Rainn Wilson revealed that he might quit Hollywood to pursue a very different profession during an appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” on Wednesday, Sept. 3.
“Well, as my celebrity star is fading – and it’s fine – I may put acting behind me,” the “Office” star began. “And there’s this beautiful occupation called death doula.”
Wilson, 59, often discusses spirituality on his “Soul Boom” podcast, and he went on to tell Meyers, 51, how a death doula is not all that different from a pregnancy doula who helps a woman give birth.
“It’s a different kind of birth, right?” he continued. “It’s a birth into the next phase of our existence, because I fully believe in the continuation and journey of the human soul beyond the material realm. And most world faiths agree.”
“To be there to usher someone with beauty and respect and dignity from this life to the next, to help the family transition, to understand what kind of legacy you want to have, how you want to celebrate what is kind of a painful transition that is often ignored in Western society,” the “Meg” star added.
After Meyers chimed in to say that a death doula helps “take the fear out” of dying and turn it into a “calming experience,” Wilson added that there is also “a lot of hope to give people” in the job.
“There’s a lot of meditation you can bring – contemplation is the word I was looking for – that you can bring to the process,” the actor, whose home was “severely damaged” in the California wildfires last year, said.
“Celebratory is kind of the wrong word, but how you can create a healing space for you and your family to mourn, to grieve, to celebrate, and to ponder this next mysterious step?” he added.
Meyers, meanwhile, expressed hope that the “Code 3” star might keep acting and pursue a job as a death doula on the side.
“Well, I would like you to keep doing both,” the late-night host said. “I don’t want you to stop one just to work on the other, but I think you’d be very good at both.”
“Well, thank you so much,” Wilson responded.
Wilson’s appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” this week came one day before the new “The Office” spinoff, “The Paper,” premiered on Peacock on Sept. 4.
Although the beloved actor who portrayed Dwight Schrute in the original series for all nine seasons is not in “The Paper,” former Dunder Mifflin employee Oscar Núñez (Oscar Martinez) revealed that Wilson was the first to catch on that a spinoff was in the works.
“Of course, Rainn Wilson is always the one who finds out about things,” Núñez, 66, exclusively told The Post. “He’s got his finger on the pulse of whatever is going on.”
“I think he was the first one who was like, ‘Is there something going on?’” Núñez added.
Wilson, meanwhile, opened up about not being invited back for “The Paper” last year after the spinoff was officially announced.
“I don’t see how Dwight goes from Scranton to wherever they’re shooting it in the Midwest,” he told CinemaBlend in November 2024. “But, you know, if [series creator] Greg [Daniels] wants me to do something, I’m happy to do something.”
“But, I am sad that they’re leaving Scranton,” he added at the time.