Rainn Wilson always seems to play the “weird guy” – and he’s okay with that. After all, he got his break as an eccentric mortician-in-training on HBO’sSix Feet Under,and as Dwight K. Schrute on NBC’s Emmy-nominatedThe Office,he plays a power-starved paper salesman who grows beets on the family farm and has an unhealthy obsession withBattlestar Galactica.This summer, he tones down his inner nerd to play the comic sidekick opposite Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson inMy Super Ex-Girlfriend.PEOPLE.com recently caught up with the 40-year-old funnyman to get the scoop on fatherhood, working with prima donnas and his weird-guy appeal.

So we have to ask: Who’s sexier –My Super Ex-Girlfriend’s Uma Thurman orThe Office’s Steve Carrell?

I’m going to go with Uma, as much as I’m wildly attracted to adorable hairy chests.

Have you ever gone through a bad breakup?

Yeah. I was breaking up with this woman and I escorted her to her subway. She wouldn’t get on her train. She wouldn’t let go of my arm and she just kept crying. So finally I said, “I gotta go,” and I dashed onto the train and the doors closed. Pretty sad.

You’ve mentioned the movie’s catfight scene was one of the most fun to shoot. Why?

I (got) to adlib a whole bunch (of lines). There was one line that I thought was really funny. In the middle of the catfight (between Uma and Anna Faris) I go, “Rip her panties off!” They didn’t include it! (Writer) Don Payne fought that line ferociously.

You were shootingEx-Girlfriendat the same time asThe Office.What was that like?

Congratulations onThe Office‘s Emmy nominations. How did you hear the news?

I was on vacation in Hawaii with my wife. The show has been on the verge on cancellation five different times, so we’re psyched.

Now that Steve Carrell got an acting Emmy nod forThe Office,will he be even more insufferable to work with?

Absolutely. He’s a prima donna nonpareil. Fortunately, I got used it with Luke Wilson.

You’re also dad to a 21-month-old son, Walter. How would you describe your parenting technique?

Speaking of your bobblehead, I read that 14,000 of them have been sold. Care to guess what people are doing with theirs?

I think they are often used as sex toys – that’s what I hear, and I’m alright with that.

source: people.com