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  • EntertainmentThe Wrap

    ‘The Office’ Season 9 Christmas Episode Re-Edited to Remove Blackface Scene (Exclusive)

    A Season 9 episode of “The Office” has been re-edited by series creator Greg Daniels and NBCUniversal to remove a scene featuring a character in blackface, TheWrap has learned exclusively.The old version of Episode 909, titled “Dwight’s Christmas,” has been replaced by the new cut on Netflix — “The Office’s” streaming home until 2021, when the show (and the updated episode) moves over to NBCUniversal’s Peacock — and other platforms where it is available for purchase.The new cut is also replacing

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  • NewsYahoo Movies UK

    Rainn Wilson says African American friend's family found a noose in their yard

    'The Office' actor explained that a noose had been hung in the front yard of his friend Jamey’s sister, and that her 17-year-old daughter found it.

  • EntertainmentEntertainment Tonight

    Hugh Dane, 'The Office' Actor, Dies at 75

    Rainn Wilson, Steve Carell and more co-stars mourned the actor, who portrayed Hank the security guard in the beloved comedy series, and died on May 16.

  • NewsDeadline

    ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Beams Up Rainn Wilson As Conman Harry Mudd

    “Office space?” Rainn Wilson has boarded  CBS All Access’ <em> Star Trek: Discovery</em> as a character known to fans of the original series. <em> The Office</em> alum, who earned three Emmy noms for his role as Dwight Schrute, will play conman and intergalactic criminal Harry Mudd, Roger C. Carmel originated the character, aka Harcourt Fenton Mudd, in the 1960s  <em>Star Trek</em> series, appearing in one episode of each of the first two seasons. He would reprise the role in a 1973 episode o

  • NewsBen Bussey

    Rainn Wilson Joins Jason Statham Giant Shark Movie, Meg

    Action icon Jason Statham is set to do battle with a 70 foot, 40 ton prehistoric shark – and now we know who will let the beast loose in the first place. Deadline report that Rainn Wilson (‘Super,’ ‘The Office US’) has been cast in a leading role in ‘Meg,’ the long in-development big screen adaptation of Steve Alten’s 1997 novel. The ‘meg’ of the title is the Carcharodon megaladon, a colossal ancestor of the great white shark.