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Rainn Wilson

"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."

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"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."

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"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."

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