Adam Scott talks about the section, parks and rec and improvisation with Will Ferrell

Adam Scottour guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Chatter Podcast, has been doing out -of -television work for decades. He stole scenes on Starz Party (2009-2010), NBC Parks and leisure (2010-2015) and HBO Big little lies (2017-2019). But nothing presented his talent and magnetism as Apple TV + BreakupOn which, since 2022, he has played Mark, a mourning history professor who chooses to undergo revolutionary procedure which creates a total mental separation between his personal life and his work, resulting in “innie” and “outnue” versions of self.
In 2022, the first season of Breakup Was recognized with 14 Emmy nominations, including the best actor in a dramatic series for Scott and the best dramatic series, for which Scott, as producer of the show, was also personally in the running. Last month, the second season of the show – that the New York Times Recently described as “the most ambitious, most pleasant and most pleasant show on television” – was recognized with a 27 Emmy Pointe Names, including these same two. But this time, unlike the end, it is the favorite of the ratings of winning in both, which would make Scott a winner of the Emmy for the first time.
During a conversation in the offices of Gettin ‘Rad Productions, the company that Scott directs with his wife, Naomi, on the lot of the Radford Studio Center, a few steps from the place where he pulled Parks and RecThe 52 -year -old has thought about his slow evolution of a hungry actor to Judd Apatow movies Overturned (2007) and Brothers-in-law (2008) at the television pillar; How his relationship with The legs put Developed from 2013 Walter Mitty’s secret lifethat Stiller directed and played in, and in which he threw Scott as a sworn enemy of his character, through Breakupon which Stiller is an EP and the main director; The different ways he approaches to play the brand “innie” and “outnie” on Breakup; More more.