April 12, 2023 • 54 mins
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Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with the brilliant actor and funnyperson ADAM SCOTT!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look out his only films to be buried with. Hello,
and welcome to Films to be buried with. My name
is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian, an actor, a writer, director,
(00:20):
a protein and I love films. As Khalilji Brand once said,
you talk when you cease to be at peace with
your thoughts, and you watch films when it's all a
bit too much and you think you need to be
taken away from it all. Whoa are you? Okay, Kalildi Brand?
Every week I invite a special guest over. I tell
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
(03:54):
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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,
(12:44):
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,
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
(15:02):
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
(15:23):
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,
(15:47):
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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,
(19:51):
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,
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
(22:08):
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
(22:30):
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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
(25:28):
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,
(25:51):
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
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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
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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
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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
(27:23):
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
(27:45):
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
(28:08):
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,
(28:32):
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
(28:52):
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
(29:13):
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
(29:35):
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,
(29:59):
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
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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
(30:41):
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
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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
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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
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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
(32:08):
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,
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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
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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
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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
(33:37):
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
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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
(34:23):
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
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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.
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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
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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
(35:57):
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
(36:18):
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
(36:42):
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,
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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
(37:32):
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,
(37:54):
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
(38:17):
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,
(38:43):
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
(39:07):
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
(39:27):
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
(39:50):
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
(40:13):
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
(40:35):
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
(40:55):
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
(41:19):
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
(41:39):
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
(42:00):
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
(42:24):
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
(42:46):
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
(43:07):
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.
(43:30):
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
(43:52):
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
(44:14):
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,
(44:34):
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
(44:57):
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
(45:19):
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,
(45:42):
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
(46:03):
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
(46:24):
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
(46:48):
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
(47:12):
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
(47:33):
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,
(47:55):
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
(48:16):
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.
(48:38):
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
(48:59):
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,
(49:20):
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
(49:40):
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
(50:01):
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
(50:24):
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.
(50:45):
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,
(51:06):
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
(51:29):
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,
(51:52):
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,
(52:17):
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,
(52:42):
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
(53:07):
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
(53:27):
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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Buddy Peace for producing it. Thanks to Acast for hosting it.
Thanks to Adam Richardson for the graphics that needs allow
them for the photography. Come enjoin me next week another
(53:47):
absolutely excellent episode. You're going to love it. And that
is it for now. In the meantime, have a lovely week,
and please now more than ever be excellent to each other.
Fast back back
Look out his only films to be buried with. Hello,
and welcome to Films to be buried with. My name
is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian, an actor, a writer, director,
(00:20):
a protein and I love films. As Khalilji Brand once said,
you talk when you cease to be at peace with
your thoughts, and you watch films when it's all a
bit too much and you think you need to be
taken away from it all. Whoa are you? Okay, Kalildi Brand?
Every week I invite a special guest over. I tell
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
(00:42):
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
(01:03):
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
(01:24):
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
(01:45):
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
(02:05):
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
(02:30):
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
(02:51):
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
(03:12):
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
(03:32):
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
(03:54):
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
(04:17):
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
(04:38):
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
(04:58):
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
(05:23):
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
(05:44):
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.
(06:08):
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
(06:30):
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.
(06:51):
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
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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,
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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
(07:59):
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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
(15:02):
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
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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,
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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
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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
(16:28):
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
(21:02):
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,
(21:23):
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
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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
(22:08):
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
(22:30):
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
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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
(23:15):
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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
(25:05):
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
(25:28):
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,
(25:51):
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
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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
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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
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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
(27:23):
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
(27:45):
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
(28:08):
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,
(28:32):
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
(28:52):
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
(29:13):
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
(29:35):
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,
(29:59):
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
(30:21):
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
(30:41):
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
(31:02):
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
(31:25):
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
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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
(32:08):
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,
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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
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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
(33:16):
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
(33:37):
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
(34:01):
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
(34:23):
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
(34:45):
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.
(35:10):
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
(35:37):
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
(35:57):
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
(36:18):
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
(36:42):
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,
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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
(37:32):
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,
(37:54):
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
(38:17):
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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
(40:35):
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
(40:55):
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
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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
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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
(42:00):
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
(42:24):
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
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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
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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.
(43:30):
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
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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
(44:14):
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,
(44:34):
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
(44:57):
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
(45:19):
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,
(45:42):
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
(46:03):
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
(46:24):
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
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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
(47:12):
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
(47:33):
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,
(47:55):
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
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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.
(48:38):
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
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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,
(49:20):
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
(49:40):
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
(50:01):
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
(50:24):
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.
(50:45):
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,
(51:06):
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
(51:29):
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,
(51:52):
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,
(52:17):
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,
(52:42):
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
(53:07):
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
(53:27):
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
for Scrubius pipping the distraction pieces of network. Thanks to
Buddy Peace for producing it. Thanks to Acast for hosting it.
Thanks to Adam Richardson for the graphics that needs allow
them for the photography. Come enjoin me next week another
(53:47):
absolutely excellent episode. You're going to love it. And that
is it for now. In the meantime, have a lovely week,
and please now more than ever be excellent to each other.
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