“When I moved to Hollywood, I didn’t know anybody and so movies and TV was just something I grew up with, thinking it was another world. Even though it’s been 18 yrs, I still feel that way – I can’t believe I get to be on TV sets and movie sets – I really am excited and thankful that this is my job. Every time a job ends, I’m hoping it’s not my last.” - Adam Scott
DETAILS: Ben Wyatt openly nerds out on things like Batman and claymation. Are you harboring any nerd quirks of your own?
ADAM SCOTT: I think that anyone my age was a big Star Wars fanatic as a kid. I also have a skill where, if you throw a movie at me, I can tell you the year it came out—anywhere from 1980 to present day, with 90 percent accuracy.
DETAILS: Okay … Heathers?
ADAM SCOTT: Nineteen eighty-nine.
DETAILS: Pretty good, but IMDb also lists 1988.
ADAM SCOTT: You know what? It was probably at Toronto in 1988, because that’s in the fall—and then it came out in the spring of ‘89.
Adam Scott, who looks like an anime Tom Cruise, has carved out a niche as a distinctively new-millenium leading man. His characters draw you in with ironic reserve, only to startle you with the depth of their romanticism.
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