Adam Scott • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #243

them they've died. Then I get them to discuss their life through the films that meant that most of them. Previous guests include Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and even Zed Campbell's. But this week it's the wonderful comedian, actor, writer and star of Severance mister Adam Scott. This week. Full season of Shrinking is available on Apple tv Plus, co created by myself and Bill Lawrence and Jason Siegel.

Give it a watch Your love It Ted Lasso. Season three, Episode five is now out, so you can watch episodes one to five also on Apple TV Plus. I Hope you fucky and love it head over to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward Slashbreck Golstein, where you get next to twenty minutes of chat with Adam. We laugh a lot, talk about beginnings and endings. There's a secret. You get the whole episode, uncut and ad free and as a video. Check it out over at patreon dot

com forward Slashbreck Golstein. So Adam Scott, Adam Scott, you know him from Step Brothers, you know him from Party Down, you know and from all sorts of things, and most importantly you now know him from Severance, which is an amazing show. If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it. It's fucking brilliant. We recorded this over Zoom a couple of weeks ago and it's a banger. I think they're really gonna love it. And thank you for listening. So

that is it for now. I very much hope you enjoy episode two hundred and forty three of Films to be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With. It is I Brett Goldstein, and I'm joined today by an actor, a writer, a producer, a director, an award winner, a podcaster, a party, Downer, A Parks and wrecka, a stepbrother, a hero, a legend, a Emmy multiple Emmy type severancerra is a hero. He lives, He walks among us and now here. He is live in person,

but also prerecorded. By the time you listen to it, I can't believe he's here. I'm look him in the eye. You can't believe this is still going on. He's here. He really is, is Adam Scott. Oh my goodness, I really am here, Adam Scott. What a fucking pleasure. Thank you for doing this, Brett, Thank you for having me. It's it is strange when you listen to a podcast a lot and you kind of get used to the beats and the and the format and everything, and then

you're there in it. That's really on the show. It's weird. It's great. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to do this podcast and to to talk to you. I'm delighted you're you're doing it, and we'll find out if you really are. Someone who listens to the podcast. Someone who will remain nameless came on and said they were a fan, and then I tell them they died, and they said what and they shot that that was even part of it, and saying like, why are we talking

about death so much? That's like massive, you're a message. Oh that's fantastic. Anyway, we're on name, I'm in that I Where are you? You're in LA? I'm in New York City? The Big Apple? Are he is? Have you heard that? I've heard of the Big Apple? Yeah? Yeah, people call it that. Why it's called that, I certainly I don't know, but you know what, I love it and I love calling it that. I'm not I'm not going to act like this for the whole show. I'm sorry why I was doing that. Do you live there

normally or are you just that because you're filming. I live in LA normally and I'm here shooting Severance, and I am away from my family for enormous amounts of time and it's a total bummer, but it's super fun making the show, so you know, to figure it out. It's a great, great, great show. I love Severance and I wanted to talk to you about it, only if you're not sick of talking about it, because I'm sure you do a lot of suppressed. But I think it's

a great shide of class, amazing, it's brilliant, clever. It's interesting. I have watched it wondering if it is depressing to make purely because you're in a kind in most of the sets have kind of nothing to look at. You're in quite an enclosed space, often just a few of you. I wonder if your daily life of it, unless everyone's really fun, which I hope they are in this to be.

It's a job about grind. Is it grind to lay? Well, it's hard to make, And the way I kind of think about it is it's hard to make, but it should be. I mean, you know, just look at it. It's of course it's hard to make it, but it's hard in a fun, challenging, let's try and climb the mountain sort of way as far as that stuff goes. Yeah, because we're under actual fluorescent lights for you know, fourteen hours at a time, and we're in that desk kind

of pod in the middle of that big room. There's that four pronged kind of desk thing, and so the four of us are out kind of in this sea of green carpet under fluorescent lights in these long scenes, and yeah, it can start to kind of drain you just those lights and like you said, the sort of nothingness of the space and the aggressive green carpet, it does sort of drain your your energy after a while. But you know, luckily everyone's super fun. Like you said,

it's it's a great group of group of people. I remember an interview with you very long time ago. This isn't I'm not about to like ruin your life. Remember very racist thing you said? No, it was you did. You were talking about years ago. You did an HBO show before you were kind of very well established, and it was like a sex show and it was very dramatic, and you you'd felt like, fuck, I don't think this

is what I wanted to be doing. And luckily it didn't carry on, and then you got into comedy and you felt like this was your place, right, I'm not missing Well, no, yeah, I think you're remembering it correctly. It was a it was a really good show. It was called tell Me You Love Me, and it was really kind of the beautifully made and it wasn't exploitive.

It was very kind of graphic sexually for sure. And uh and and and the person I had all my scenes with Sonya Walgers, this brilliant actor, and we became good friends and stuff. She's so great and the people that created are great and stuff. I think it was just really super super heavy. And when I went and did like Stepbrothers, I think we had done the first season of Telling You Love Me and then on hiatus

before we're going to start season two. I did Stepbrothers, and I didn't really had had an opportunity to really like be in a comedy like that before. It was pre party down, pre parks and rec and and so. But driving to work at Stepbrothers, it was like, Wow,

this is this is very different. Uh, this is really fun and you know, just trying driving to work trying to figure out how you're not going to laugh and ruin takes that day rather than driving to work trying to figure out how you're going to cry all day. It just was a it was a sort of a weight off and uh and it kind of got me sort of you know, addicted to to comedy. And really, I don't know, I guess I felt like it it gave me a new lease on because I wasn't sure.

You know, every like five or seven years, I don't know if you do this, but every five or seven years you kind of stop and wonder if you want to be doing this? Yeah, does that happen to you? It's a weird question. I mean that I always know I want to be doing some area of this, the making stuff, But in terms of the laying your in I suppose it depends on your choices though as well, Like, yeah, no, you're right, because because I'm talking specifically about acting, but

then there's writing and doing all these other things. I think with acting because that's what I started out doing when I was like twenty, I'm now in twenty twenty three, in my thirtieth year of trying to do this professionally. I think that I was going after it. I was just a kid and going after it so hard, and I think at a certain point I realized I was like twelve years in and I had never stopped to consider if I even wanted to still be doing this.

It was just like trying to achieve something. So anyway, it's a long col de sac away from just trying to say, like the step Brothers and party down in Parks were this sort of triumvirate of jobs that kind of gave me a new lease on it and on the profession and made me really kind of really realize how much I wanted to be doing this at a time that I had and doubting it. So then I guess my question is with Severance, which is funny but it's definitely a drama, I would say it's very funny

but definitely drama. Yeah, you was it just sucking out this is really good? I want to do this or what was part of it? I'd like to head back into that drumay place? Was it more conscious on that way? Yeah? I think it was. I think when Parson Wreck ended, I wanted to find something just different, and and then you know, found that trying to find things that weren't comedy or try and get jobs that weren't comedy was challenging.

And yeah, so I went and auditioned for Big Little Lies and got apart on that and that kind of helped. And then and then Ben Stiller sent me Severance, and it was just sort of the exact exactly the sort of thing that I've always been, you know, wanting to do. And because there was a kid, I was really in the you know, the Twilight Zone and stuff like that, and so, you know, I mean my first instinct when I first read it was I will never get this job,

you know. Yeah, just because I've been in this business long enough to know that when you read something that's kind of that's great, I'm not going to end up doing it. And so but I had to think about it in a way that you know that I've been spending all these years earning the chance at something like this. So luckily I ended up doing it, and uh, and it was exactly what I wanted to to try and do. Like you said, you're you're phenomenal in it. You're very,

very very good in it. Season two, you know, like, man, I want to get back to the comedy. Yeah, yeah, it's uh, you know, it is fun because you know, it has a really unique tone and there's a lot of funny stuff in it, but a lot of it is. Yeah, it's it's it's heavy. It would be fun to go and do something a little lighter on its feet, for sure. Well let's say we can sort that out. Should that's not problem? I have forgotten to tell you something. Oh

what's going on? No, it's it's silly because I think I mentioned Edie as talking about someone else, but then I forgot that should have sort of sparked it for me. But it's been a busy week. It's been a lot going No, no, no, that's that's not me. That's actually on me, and so I'm sorry, Like, it's not your problem. I just think I've been a bit distracted. But that's all right. No, Well, you're very kind of taking the time to do this, and I should have just said it.

You you are, say you're dead. You died? Oh yeah? Ay? Oh sorry, how did you? Yeah? How did you die? Well, now that I am kind of thinking back on it, because when you said that, it was a surprise obviously because I, yeah, you could hear how I reacted. But now that I'm really thinking about it, I think you're right. I think I died. M I wouldn't lie to you. Oh my god, no, you you're telling the truth. By god, you're you're right. Yeah, No, I I died. I oh god,

it's it's actually embarrassing. It's embarrassing. Yeah, it's not. No, it's not one of those uh deaths that just sort of projects dignity. It's no, it's a real bummer. Um. I was on a train, an Amtrak train. This is one of those really long trips and sometimes you can take like if you go from Arizona to to northern California, it's like a thirty six hour amtrak, right, Yeah, it takes a long time. So I was on the train, it was it was a long trip, and so I

had to use the restroom. I did just kind of fresh and go in there and and uh kind of brush my teeth and do all the things to do before bed. How many hours we into the trip, this is about sixteen hours in and and I decided to to go to bed. I got one of the first class cabins that you spend money on thinking it's going to be a luxurious thing. But it's basically a metal box with beds that fulled down from the from the wall,

and it's uncomfortable and incredibly loud. And I went into the bathroom to rush my teeth and do all that stuff. And I needed to change into my pajamas. And as I was changing, I was taking my shirt off. I had no bottoms on because I was going to put on pajama bottoms, and I was taking the shirt off and the shirt got caught on a hook on the wall. I guess a hook for a towel or something, and so it was caught up over my head. And as I stepped around to try and kind of free myself

from the hook, I stepped into the toilet. Yeah, and then I lost my balance once and it's a very small bathroom. I fell sideways and hit my head on the side of the sink, ejected my foot from the toilet, and then fell face first into the toilet. Your head was still stuck in the head, still stuck in the sweater. But now it's all in the toilet, and my sweater plugs up the toilet and it fills with that blue

liquid and I drowned in blue turred liquid. Other than that sweater caught around my face that I drowned in, I was completely nude. Jesus, I'm sorry. Sorry, that is Yeah, the problem we've dying like that is unfortunately, you've done so much work in your life. You've done so much great, great work. You've done classic series and made excellent films, and that's what you're going to be remembered. Yeah, that's that's the only thing I'll be remembered for me, which

is why I'm I'm so bummed out about it. That about it. Oh, well, do you do you do you worry about that? I do. It's been a preoccupation of mine since I was like fourteen years old. I think, right, that's what I'd like to hit. What do you That's the bread and butter of this this show. Isn't it that dress? People who did think about it? I mean, with it? This isn't a ducker it maybe, and that's fine if it. Did something happen when you're fourteen, or

did it? It was when he started thinking about it. I remember I was homesick. I had like a flu or something, and so I was just home by myself, and I started thinking about what if I got cancer. It's not unheard of for a fourteen year old to get cancer. It totally happens. Maybe that's what's going on with me now, and it's maybe it's not a flu, Maybe I have cancer. What would happen if I had cancer?

There's a chance I would die. I could die. And I just started going down that rabbit hole of this being a distinct possibility, never having really considered that before as a kid. And from then on. I remember, for the first few years after this revelation that I'd sort of privately made when I saw. So I remember going to see young guns in the theater and seeing people get shot and just being like, oh my god, every single one of them died. They died dead. Forever those

people are all dead. And so death was just very much at the forefront of my mind for for years and years, and I guess it still is. It's just it's more I've more kind of accepted it, but it still freaks me out. Do you what do you think happens when you die? Do you think there's anything beyond this life? I don't at all think there's anything, but there's also that thing in the back of anyone's mind that sort of you have this kind of ongoing fantasy of what it would be if it did. It's almost

like this denial. Even though I do not believe in ghosts or spirits or anything like that, and in fact, I'm always surprised at how how many people do. Not that I completely respect anyone's belief in that, but I always am so surprised when, like people, grown ups believe in ghosts and stuff. It always is weird. But I think people legitimately have these experiences that leads them to that,

which which totally makes sense. I guess what's your fantasy then, just this sort of thing where you're you're just sort of forever around and looking down on everything and kind of all knowing and I don't know, I guess it's sort of ill defined and just just sort of this this sort of voyeur on a cloud. Yeah, yeah, not a cloud as much as just sort of up in the corner of the upper corner of a room, just sort of that's awful, just hanging out in the corner

of the room, watching with a direction. That's awful. Yeah, still nude from the waist down, sweater over my head, just trying to get through the city, water in your sweat, going on in the have a corner. I'm gonna move over to the other corner and watch from there. What about you? Oh, well, you know, I know exactly what happens, do you though? Yeah, Well, there's a heaven, buddy, boy is okay? There is? You got there, Christ and you got there for a bit until you want to, you know,

have another guy on the out on the ride. It's like it's like so it's like the Picks Up film, so in which they know exactly what's kind of wow. Anyway, you're welcome in heaven. They're actually one of the things. We had a chat about it heaven. We were like, well we talk to him about anything else other than the way he died. And we also say, no, this is heaven. We should we should, we should not. Yeah, he gets a lot of that when he's up in

the corner watching people in the world. So anyone's talking about So you're very, very welcome, and heaven is filled with your favorite thing. What's your favorite thing? Movies? Well, then you've come to the right place. Oh great. Everyone wants to talk to you about your life, but they want to talk about it through the medium of film, And the first thing they want to know is what is Adam Scott. The first film you remember seeing? Well, the first film I have a clear memory of seeing

in a movie theater. I remember people telling me I had seen snow White, but I don't remember that. The first one I have a clear memory of seeing was High Anxiety, the Mell Brooks film, Oh Wicked. Yeah, and it's not one of the like mel Brooks movies that

he's really known for. That that's really kind of you know, in the culture as much as like Blazing Saddles and history of the world and stuff, and it's really funny and really well like it's really but as a like a four or five year old or whatever I was, it scared the shit out of me because the whole movie is him kind of replicating Hitchcock films and different scenes from Hitchcock movies and a little like James Bond because like Jaws is the guy with the silver teeth.

But I didn't know any of that. I didn't know Hitchcock or any of those references. So to me, it was just insanely scary, so much so that I found it on Amazon a couple of years ago, having not seen it since then, and put it on it and found those two scenes that I remembered so well, And I remember in the movie theater losing my mind and just screaming and freaking out and my dad having to

pick me up and carry me. My dad's a terrific dad, and I think that he thought we're going to go see a hilarious Smelt Brookes and it happened to be the one where they're where it's, you know, essentially a Hitchcock movie for all intensive No. I have an older brother and older sister and they were there and we're embarrassed and bummed out that I was ruining their Saturday afternoon.

So your dad took you out, But they did, I guess so as far as I remember, Yes, they were like, get him out of here, let's we want to watch this smooth. I love Hi Anxiety. I really really loved the song he sings in the land, the song that is the name of the film. It's like one of my favorite sequences. See I don't I don't remember that we put didn't get that far? Is that? Is it mel Brooks that sings it in the Is it in the lobby of the hotel. It's like a lounge Like

he's like a lounge thing. It's like the setup. It's like you have to sing and he doesn't want and it's all embarrassing, and then he's like an incredible sounding and it's very time to remember that. Look up the song. It will make you happy now other than High Anxiety. What's the film that scared you the most, Adam Scott? Do you like being scared? Yes? And I like I love horror movies. Yes. Do you love him? Yeah? Amazing how many people don't on this podcast? No, I love

horror movie, like good horror movie. I mean, you know, of course, good horror movies. But I think Hereditary is the most recent movie that's genuinely terrifying, terrifying, scared this shit to me. Oh my god, yes, how long have it been? Sense of movie? Really fun? I mean, I guess The Strangers is that the one from like ten twelve years ago? With that one? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was scary too. But Hereditary was really fucked up.

But I think I remember as a kid, it was a TV mini series that doesn't really count, does it, dude? Might let me hear it, The Atlanta Child Murders. It was a mini series on primetime television. Okay, it scared the shit out of me because I guess there were these things called the Atlanta Child Murders, and it was

it was based on a real thing that happened. And I just remember watching it and seeing a car pull up above a ravine that went down into a creek and someone just tossing like a burlap sack out of the car and it just rolled down the hill and landed in the creek, and the insinuation being that there was a child in that burlap sack and I was a child, and it's scared the ship. I was up till one in the morning for years worrying about the

Lanta child murders. After that, you know. Her redditary is the film where there are people in the corners of the ceiling. That's right, Tony collects in the corner, which is how you want, how you think death is? That's right. Maybe maybe you're run stuffy. Yeah, isn't she like sawing her own head off when she's up in the corner. God, it's scary. It's really, it's so scary. It's terrific. It's really good. What is the film that makes you cry the most? Do you like cry? You cry? Yeah? And

I do cry quite a bit watching movies. It's real easy to get me to cry. Yeah, I have kids, so ever since we started, since we had our first kid, which is like sixteen years ago. Now, anything with like kids, I cry. But I remember in the movie theater really having a solid good cry at the movie in her shoe. Oh my god, what the Curt Hanson film with Yes, Yes, Yes, and Tony Collett. Yeah, have you seen that? I have

seen that? And their sisters they're sisters and it was yet another Hanson film that was completely completely different from the last, Yes, completely different, and equally like The River Wild or something did The River Wild? That he did that La Confidential, and then he did In Her Shoes. Yeah, And I think it's just as masterful as La Confidential.

It's just he's zeroing in on a period of the life of these two sisters who are super different and do everything they can to hurt each other as much as they can and just can't connect, and so they

decide to stop speaking for a period of time. And then at the end, Tony Collette's getting married and Cameron Diaz speaks reads a poem at her wedding, and the whole relationship sort of, you know, before the wedding, they kind of come back together, and she spends all of this time with Shirley McLean at an old folks home in Florida. That's where she kind of finds her humanity again in a way. And then the sisters come back together and at the wedding she reads this E. Cummings

poem and I just lost it. It was so beautiful and I love that movie. It's a great movie. I never loved the title. I always thought the title kind of gave the movie short shrift. It makes it sound silly or something. Yeah, it makes it sound of the swooping swooping jobs. But it's a it's a terrific movie in it. Every time I see it, I lose it at the end. That's so great. Out of that film has not come up. Yeah, I know what he is it? Then this, that's great? What is the film that you love?

Not critically acclaimed, most people don't like it, but you love it whatever anyone says, Well, I kind of feel like this movie. I don't know, I feel like people generally like this movie or or everyone knows it super super well. But I feel like it's frowned upon it and and people turn their noses up at this movie, particularly when compared with the one that came before and the one that came after. It's always sort of looked down upon. And that's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Right.

So I have a my friend, Jake Tapper, the newscaster. Yes, can't believe, Yeah, okay, can't believe how sorry, says think Jake Tapper. Let's see if it happens again. Um, can't believe how much because I for me, it's my favorite movie. It's not what I it's not, you know what I think is the greatest movie ever made. But I may as well because it's my favorite movie because I was eleven when it came out out and I still can't believe how incredible it is watching it. It's from that

first crazy musical number the movie does not stop. Um. I mean, there are things in it that have not aged as well as other things in it, and I think that's all. You know, you gotta just roll with that. But I love it so much. It's it's my favorite Indiana Jones movie and maybe my favorite movie. Wow. Yeah, I can't get enough of it. That's cool. Do you like that movie? I do? I mean I I I haven't watched that one in a while. There's some kinds

of problematic things in it. Yeah, I definitely remember that. It's a proper fucking a brilliant action sequence after it's It's crazy how these sequences I still can't believe. I don't know how they did it. Yeah, I think I have big self spot for the last three side because yeah, I like the I like them together very much, and the ending makes me cry. When when he tells them to let go because they have that really tough relationship.

And you know, now knowing more about Spielberg and seeing the relationships with his parents and Fableman's, that relationship makes a lot more sense. I mean it always made sense, but it makes sense in a context of Spielberg. And I remember him apologizing for Temple of Doom when Last Crusade was coming out, and that hurting my feelings. Oh listen, if you've ever had this podcast, I get my feelings are hurt. Whatever Spielberg says, Hook isn't very good. I

made a mistake with Hook. I'm a fucking buster face, right, what are you that? Right? Right? Right? And that's what it's a It's about what it means to whoever watches it. Yeah, I think that's Cybut it's beautiful that in hash means that much too, because it is not a film that I don't think anyone talked about it in ten years, and this film was really that it's stuck with you.

I love that. Yeah, yeah, I really like it. What is the film, on the other hand, that you used to love but you've watched it recently and you've thought, I don't like this anymore. It might be just because you've changed. I willed it down to three, and I'm just gonna pick one of them right now. And I

think it's Red Dawn though the nineteen eighties one. Obviously, when I was, you know, in thirteen or whatever, when it came out, I went to see it over and over again because it was so frightening because that was at the height of the Cold War and we were all scared of the Soviet Union and stuff. And but I remember trying to watch it a couple of years ago, and it you know, when you watch a movie that just clearly isn't holding up and you're not even sure

it's still qualifies as a movie. Like it's just so haphazard and doesn't seem to really hold together in any real way, which doesn't mean it's bad or anything. I just also I didn't really remember anything from it, and I remember going to see it over and over again. Also, it's just so jingoistic and that kind of raw, raw America thing right in the middle of you know, the Ronald Reagan eighties and stuff. I now find it deeply offensive, whereas then I just thought it was kick ass sweet

that stuff because you saw it so many times. There are films particuarly from the eighties where you got that. I was obsessed with this film, and then you watched it now and you guys barely coherent. Yeah, So so how come you didn't notice that? And is it like just the hype of it and getting caught up in It's weird that you didn't know when you watched it a million times. It doesn't even make sense. I think the show, and I love John Millius too, and I'm

pretty sure he directed that. I just remember the teacher or walking at because during English class, a bunch of air troopers parachute down onto like the football field at the high school, and the teacher goes out to ask them what's going on, and they shoot him with a machine gun, and his shirt sleeves with his tie just burst into all the squibs go and it looked and he just gets shot and just scared the shit out

of me. And seeing the teacher get murdered in front of the kids and then them all running out into a truck, and it just like the day after was another thing that scared everybody, all the kids growing up at that time. So I think it was more the emotional charge of Soviet Union. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because and you know, when you're eleven or twelve years old, you're not as discerning or demanding an audience member. You know, what is the film that means the mice to you?

Not necessarily the film itself is right, but the experience you had seeing it will always make it special to you.

When I was in junior high school and elementary school, I told my mom I wanted to be a film critic when I grew up, and she she was like, well, you should, you should write movie reviews, and and so I started writing movie reviews for the school paper and junior high and I would do them sometimes in high school, but then I but in junior high, when I was like thirteen, twelve thirteen, I really started doing that whether

and they didn't ask for them. I would just write movie reviews and give them to them and write and they would just put them in because no one else was doing. But my mom would bring me to movies so I could write the reviews. And I remember Good Morning Vietnam in particular being won it from that period that was really fun and it was it was Robin Williams really breaking out in sort of a somewhat dramatic movie.

It was it was pre Dead Poet Society. It was his first sort of it was kind of his crossover movie into like Oscar, you know, prestigee material or whatever. And it's a really great Barry Levinson movie. But I just but it's also super super funny Robin Williams kind of improvising as a radio DJ. And I just remember that that period of time with my mom was really special because she would she would take me into all these movies Mosquito Coast and Platoon and all these movies

from that from that period. That's nice, nice story. What is the film that you must relate to? You know? I remember when I saw Defending Your Life feeling like, oh, that's that's how I feel about everything, you know. Yeah, And I was I think I was seventeen years old, and I had seen Lost in America and I had seen Modern Romance, but that was the one that just hit me at the right time and I was like, oh wow, this is like this is my guy. Yeah,

that was that was a big deal. That was a big deal, and it had to do with death and life after death. And his clearly his anxiety about all of that, and he kind of put it into this this kind of perfect movie. I would imagine that movie comes up quite a bit on the show. I've heard it once or twice. So you were like about the people Albert Brooks were like, this is my right. Yeah, I mean I had grown up really loving and connecting with like Steve Martin and Letterman particularly, and those were

like my guys. But Albert Brooks was this new gear. And Woody Allen as well was one that I had always loved as a kid, but then Albert Brooks was sort of this new gear. And then going back and watching Lost in America and being like, oh, I get this now. I wasn't quite connecting with this when I was, you know, nine, or whenever I saw it. And Albert Brooks, you know, obviously is one of the great comedy minds ever. Defending your life, it will always be sort of my favorite.

I think forgive me for the nine this I live in America, but that's no excuse. Have you ever done did you ever do Letterman? Having been a huge fan of it, Yeah, I did. I got to do it twice.

Great was that it was really amazing. I couldn't believe it was happening, really, And I didn't say it on the show because I figured it kind of goes against everything, like you don't want Letterman to react to you saying one of the reasons I'm doing this in the first places so I could sit here with you, you know. So I didn't say anything like that. I didn't, but

I go with it. I used to sit on my bed, fashion it, make it like a couch and pretend I was talking to David Lederman as as a kid it was. And so yeah, I did. I finally might. I got my brother to come out to New York so he could be there because we were both in The Letterman together, and so it was Letterman a big deal for you growing up on the UK. I knew he was because I was always sort of into American stuff, but it wasn't like we had it. Yeah you didn't. You didn't

have access to it. Yeah, yeah, but I'm aware of what he means. That's very cool. What is we did this now? Yeah? Well, I know it's the one people it's the any ways and people are changing. What's the sexiest film you've ever seen? Adams Scott I think it's sex lies and videotape. Good answer, Yeah, good film, great, great movie. Good god. It's one of my favorite movies.

And and I think also just at the time, you know that it hitting me at a particular time, and and the fact that the main character is impotent, and ooh yeah, that that's just my that's absolutely my way in I mean, I am you know you you had me impotent? Um? Excuse me? Did someone say impotent? Um? I'll take two tickets. So that just sort of as a sort of starting place, the main character being impotent, and it then proceeding to be this sexually charged, super

intellectually erotic movie. Just the relationship and the sort of chemistry between I hate the word chemistry because I think it's overused people talking about chemistry between actors, and I think usually people don't know what they're talking about. But the whatever it was that was happening between he and Andy McDowell, it was really special. And then also what

was happening between Laura San Giacomo and Peter Gallagher. Peter Gallagher and James Spader had a really weird, electric, aggressive former friendship. You could tell it was already dead, but there's this kind of violence to the way they spoke to each other. And then uh, Laura san Giacomo and and Annie mcdo, all those those four there's just all this really interesting energy flying around. And yeah, and there's nary a sex seem to be I guess there's sort

of is, but no nudity or anything. It's just I remember, Yeah, what's your issue with people saying chemistry to be next? Oh? I just feel like, um, I feel like sometimes I and I guess it's more sort of entertain my press talking about or or or critics sometimes I guess talking about the chemistry between actors or lack thereof. And sometimes I feel like it's not fair and it's completely subjective, like how do you know that there is no chemistry

between these people? And what does that even mean? I think that And and sometimes there is chemistry on screen and there's something going on, but offscreen there's not, and vice versa. I think it's more subjective than I think. Sometimes it's talked about, particularly by press and stuff talked about as being something more tangible than it actually is. I think it's more subjective. Yeah, sometimes the act is

not even in the same room exactly. Yes, Yeah, so that's why I think, like like you don't know what you're Yeah, there's a subcategory troubling. Biden is worrying why I don't filmy found a rousing You wren't sure that you should? Adam Scott, what was it? I guess it was because I was a little kid, but nine to five really got me going. Lily Tomlin, Donald Parton and Jane Fonda. No, uh, predominantly sex film. What was what was throwing you off about? That? Was it? Women working?

Women having to jolly? I shouldn't be into this women working and like tying up, like getting the guy like Dabney Coleman, they take him hostage or something. I mean, I don't think i've seen it since, but I remember looking at the ad in the newspaper and seeing the three of them with glasses and pads of paper surrounding Dabney Coleman. And they're also cute and they have these cool outfit like business suits on and stuff, and just staring at it and not understanding the feelings it was

giving me. And I think if you find that original movie poster you'll understand exactly what I mean. That's any it wasn't impotent between nine and five? This guy, what is objectively the greatest film of all time? Obviously not Template Team? What's the greatest? No? Your favorite? We're not talking Template Team unless you also think Template Team is

the greatest. Well. I don't want to say that Godfather are good Fellows because I feel like you probably get that or have gotten that a lot, and it's sort of like, I don't think I get good Fellaws enough. Oh really, if that's your if that's what was your answer going to be, you must speak your truth at him, my truth. It changes for me right now. I think it might be the verdict. Oh wow, great, So I don't think that's been picked. It's a great, really great movie. Yeah,

And it's sort of out of time. It doesn't feel like it's of a period. Really. The filmmaking is so so sort of staid and still. I don't even know if there's much music in it. It's a really quiet, great movie with maybe the best performance it's ever been on film. I don't know. It's a pretty perfect movie. The other one that I was maybe going to say is Reds because I think Red's is believable. But I think the verdict maybe for me love that you just

think it's perfect, just perfectly that. Yeah, And it's not as you know, it's not the as wide in scope and and and the thing is as some of the big, grand greatest movies of all time that I usually think of when I try and think. But I think the scale doesn't really matter. It's it's what you're trying to do and what you're attacking and how well you do that. And I don't think they take a wrong step anywhere. And this the David Mannet script is there isn't a

syllable out of place. It's perfect. And uh and like I said that that lead performance, in Jack Warden's performance, it's all perfect, right right? What is the film you could or have? What's the most over and over again? Maybe Midnight run right right? Though I've seen a long time holds up right? Yeah, yeah, it's great. It also doesn't feel of a time. I think the music is really for whatever reason, it's a Danny Elfman score, and it's it feels a little out of time. It doesn't

sound eighties. It's I mean there's some like saxophone and some like bluesy guitar, but not in an eighties sort, you know how like some movies, Yeah, like The Tutsie is a perfect movie. But it has that montage in the middle with like a Christopher Cross song or something. It's just so weird or now it's weird. But Midnight Run has this super like cartooning action comedy score. And I did I love that movie. I think, you know, I figured that was one you might get a lot too,

but but it is. It's a pretty perfect movie as well. Tyler's to be negative about him said, do it quick, what's the worst film you ever say? I remember as a kid going to see Jewel of the Nile, Yeah, the sequel to Romancing the Stone. Yeah, and having loved Romancing the Stone so much, and being so excited for Jewel of the Nile. And I remember I couldn't have been older than twelve years old. I walked out. Nah, I walked out of Jewel of the Nile. Maybe it's not that bad, like I said, I went and saw

a Temple of Doom, probably nineteen times. I Temple of Dame of Romancing this day exactly. I couldn't take it being bad. And I love bad movies. I love bad movies, So trying to figure out what the worst movie is. Everest is tough, because I'd seek them out. I enjoy them. But I think that's the one that I remember being so excited for and and just immediately feeling like I was getting ripped off. Do you remember that being a

fun movie or a good movie. I haven't seen in years, but I saw it as a kid and I and I loved it. And it's got when the guy and gets tough, get guy. You're right, it does have that. I think that's right. Remember the music video mode because I'd seen that music video so many times and was so charged up to see this movie because of the Billy Ocean video. Bemoin White states, absolutely, Douglas, that's right. That was in the same period as Dancing on the

Ceiling Too. Yeah, suits and Running Scared where they have the Michael McDonald's song where they're in the Tropics. It was kind of a the milieu of the time, good time for that stuff. You're in comedy, you're very funny, you're a professional. What's the film that made you laugh the most? The aforementioned Defending Your Life was deeply, deeply funny. The Past Lives Pavilion. I remember my friend and I going to see it twice the first day we saw

it because we had to see that scene again. But I think since I've already mentioned that movie, I think as a kid, like a little kid, like seven eight years old, my mom brought me to my Holy Grail Monty Python's Holy Grail, yeah, right, at a revival theater, and I think I remember like falling out of my chair during the it's only a flesh run scene. And of course, you know, that's a great movie for kids.

I mean, it's disgusting and bloody, but any any any kid would look because you feel like you're breaking a rule of some sort watching this movie. And it's so so funny and just great. The filmmaking, too, is really really good. Filmmaker really good. Only that film. Yeah, in every resolutely absolutely like that is a great film. Forget the comedy, forget everything. I'm like, that is such a well made film. I totally agree. They were doing like handheld stuff in the forest and so fun, so good.

Adam Scott, you have been an absolute pleasure and a joy. However, when you were on your thirty six our train journey amtrack and you're sixteen hours in and you thought probably time for bed, pulled down your slab of a bed off the wall. You went to pull your jumper off. Sweater. Sorry, you put your foot in the toilet. You got your head, caught your bangs your head, you fell, got your foot out of the toilet, fell forward, head first into toilet,

your head stuck in the toilet. And as the blue liquid often used to denote a period in a advert for the same exact liquid, I mean, you know, so Sandra's house. I do know the difference. Thank you. The blue liquid filled. It's quite a cashmere sweater, act, wasn't it it? Really? Yeah? Thanks for you were sort of it was a lovely sweater and it blocks out there with the water board lovely. You basically waterboarded yourself in the in the shitty water. Anyway, took ages for you

to die. I was waiting to pick you up when you arrived. So this was got sixteen hours later. I think everyone gets off the train. I'm like, I don't think Adam got off the train. I've got a coffee with me, you know what. I'm like, sort of say the guy, Can I just pop in check on my check on Adam, knock on your thing anywhere find you. You have swelled up to the size of four Adam Scotts, just filled with blue. Blue. Yeah, yeah, and you're completely blue.

You look like a violet by regard in the end of John the Chactory And anyway, so me and the guy, I say, you've got one of them sort of fire axes. You know this, Yeah, of course, so coming we start chopping into your shit and blue is guy and everywhere turds. Anyway, turds just hitting the guy in the fam So sorry about my friend that keeps saying anyway, shop you up, get all the bits of blood but there's basically blood but now and putting you all in the in the coffin.

But there's so much more of you than I was expecting. You'd have to really jam it all in. Yeah, there's no room in this coffin. There's enough room to slip one DVD into the side for you to take across to the other side. And on the other side's movie night every night. What film are you taking to show when it's your turn, Adam Scott, I think that movie that would go and it's going to go well because it has sort of a blue theme. Color wise, the palette of the movie is predominantly blue. I think I

might bring heat with me. Great. Yeah, all right, that's a movie. To watch it, great movie. You got time as well. It's long, it's long, three hours. You're dead, you really heaven, You've got time? Yeah, watch it over and over again. Adam Scott, what's a delight. Thank you so much for doing this right, Thank you for having me. I'm so great if you did it. Man, is there anything you would like to tell people to watch listen to look out for coming up? Season three of Party

Down is currently out. This season finale is March thirty first, I think so that might be in the past by the time this comes out, but they'll all be out there and available on the Stars app if you want to watch them. It's a fun season. Other than that, nothing, Just keep listening to this terrific podcast. How about that? God bless you. And Severance will be back soon. Severance will be back soon ish at some point. I don't know. Yeah, but Ted Lasso's coming back in two days from when

we record this. Yeah, fantastic. That's exciting. It is exciting. Cannot wait. Thank you, Adams, God bless you. I have a wonderful death. Thanks man, Thank you for your time. I never thought dying would be so extraordinary and reward lovely things to say. Good Night, good night. So was episode two hundred and forty three. Head over to the Patreon at patreon dot com forwards last breaksting for the extra chat, secrets and video with Adam. Remember to watch

Shrinking and ted Lasso over on Apple tv Plus. Go to Apple Podcasts give us a five star rating. But right about the film that means the most to you and why. It's always a lovely thing to read and I know people enjoy reading them. Thank you so much to Adam for doing the show and for giving me his time. Go watch Severance on Apple tv Plus and party down on Stars and all sorts of other things. Thank you for listening. I hope you're all well. Thanks

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