To avoid disappointment, Adam Scott said he didn’t expect a big nomination. He said it was a healthier state of mind and he was accustomed to not hearing his name called.
“I didn’t expect to be nominated,” he said. “I was just taking a walk focusing on everyone else and trying to get it out of my head.”
Scott was nominated for Best Actor in the Emmy Awards in the Apple TV + drama “Severance,” including Brian Cox, who was nominated for “Succession,” and Jason Bateman, who was nominated for “Welcome to Ozark.” I am honored to be selected next to the actor. “
Severance, which has been nominated for the best drama, is a mysterious and vague company, an employee of Lemon Industries, who has undergone a surgical operation to separate work memory from personal memory, and secrets the company’s secret. Please. Scott plays Mark Scout. Mark Scout replaces the monotonous shift pocket number with Rumon’s digital box for her proper healing after losing his wife Jema (played by Dichen Lachman) in a car accident.
In a telephone interview on Tuesday, Scott talked about the ending of the show’s Cliffhanger and how he used his personal losses to build his character. These are edited excerpts from that conversation.
Where were you when you first heard about the nominations?
I was in the middle of a dog walk when I got the call, but I was surprised and couldn’t be more complimented or honored. It was a really unique feeling, to say the least.
Why do you think the show was so successful?
That’s a good question.Because when we are making it, we stop very often, if not every day, to look at each other and say, “This is really [expletive] strange. Is anyone going to connect to it? I didn’t know, so I shrugged my shoulders and bowed my head.
What was the most challenging scene you were shooting?
My mother died before I went to New York, so I was experiencing a process of sadness. When I stepped into the apartment, I realized I wasn’t sad at all as my family softened me at home. And that’s the purpose of love in many ways, to help you through such a process, and because we were trapped in Los Angeles, I was able to get it done. But six months later, I arrived in New York and closed the door. I quickly realized that I hadn’t finished absorbing this loss by myself. The show was right there, so I handled my sorrow through the show.
What does “Severance” want to teach you about how to deal with sadness?
For Outtimer, it was the season: sadness, and how is he going to handle it?When teeth Is he going to handle it? Or is he going to keep pushing it away? And I was asking myself the same question. So I decided to deal with it, but I will deal with it with Mark.
At the show, there was a scene where my wife was on the side of the road where she had a car accident, and I shot that scene on the first anniversary of my mother’s death. It was just a coincidence. But I carried it all day and tried not to focus on it. Again, it helped me with my sorrow process.
The show tells viewers how to manage what’s happening at work and what’s happening at home, especially in a pandemic where many people had to work remotely. Are you aiming for that?
Work is what you do to get something done. If work can be defined in that way, it’s a place to go, and I think I’ve begun to re-evaluate the relationship with such things. We all know that home, your life, and your life at work have begun to blend in with one sort of thing.
How did cast and director Ben Stiller organize the final moments of the season finale?
The moment I call Mrs. Selvig “Mrs.”Coincidentally — I remember telling Patricia while we were filming [Arquette] And Ben said, “With them, if they care at this point in the last episode, and with the crumbs in place, this moment will be very fun and very big.”
But it’s a subtle process that has reached the point where it actually affects you. It’s not easy to put it all together, so it really is. It’s easy to shrug if you’re not investing in characters or stories. So at the end of Episode 9, it’s nice to hear people throw things on the TV, get up and get out of the room, or just scream. We didn’t really know if anyone would care.
