You don't have to be a kid to enjoy the interview with film and television star Rainn Wilson in the current issue of Brilliant Star, the multi-award-winning children's magazine published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States.

Rainn Wilson featured in Brilliant Star
Baha'i children's magazine (PDF document)

You probably know Mr. Wilson, a lifelong Baha'i, for his entertaining portrayal of Dwight Schrute on the hit TV series "The Office," or the New Age science teacher in the recent movie "The Last Mimzy."

In the Brilliant Star interview, Mr. Wilson says that attending Baha'i School as a child gave him a sense of "what the Baha'i world could be like, because it was so diverse" and because "all ages and all races and all types" came together, "united with one purpose."

Mr. Wilson also says his sense of humor is a gift from God, who "gives us gifts, talents, and faculties . . .it's up to us to utilize them, and I was always the one who had the ability to make people laugh."

Speaking of laughs, Mr. Wilson says he's "thrilled about the third season of "The Office."

"We're starting with four one-hour episodes, like a mini-series -‘Roots' or ‘The Thorn Birds,' but with a paper company," says Mr. Wilson.

Providing a sneak peek of the series' new season, Mr. Wilson says there will be "lots of developments with Dwight's romance with Angela. Dwight will be tested to his maximum. And we're having another visit to the Schrute Family beet farm, which promises some of the strangest situations you've ever seen on network television."

In addition to the series, Mr. Wilson, who lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, noted author Holiday Reinhorn, and their young son, Walter, has been juggling several other projects. He recently wrapped work on the Fox Atomic film "The Rocker," in which he plays a former heavy-metal drummer who gets a second chance at fame in his high-school nephew's rock band.

Rainn Wilson in the upcoming movie "The Rocker," as a
down-and-out heavy-metal drummer who gets a second
chance at fame in his high-school nephew's rock band.Mr. Wilson also is starring in the upcoming movie "Renaissance Men," which he co-wrote and co-produced, about two down-and-out community theater actors who think they've accidentally killed a co-star. In a panic, they go on the lam and hide out in a Renaissance fair.

The busy Baha'i also is the main character in "Bonzai Shadowhands," (expected to be released in 2008) which he wrote and co-produced. He says the film, directed by Jason Reitman, is about "a down-and-out ninja living in the San Fernando Valley."

And "to recharge our spiritual batteries," Mr. Wilson says, "at some point Holiday and I will visit the Holy Land (Haifa, Israel, home of the Baha'i World Center and holy shrines).