Adam Scott Tried to Emulate Ethan Hawke in Auditions ‘for Years’

Early on, actor Adam Scott thought he should person a profession for illustration chap prima Ethan Hawke. The character admitted to being inspired to emulate Hawke during his early days successful Hollywood, going truthful acold arsenic to dress and trim his hairsbreadth for illustration nan star.

“If you saw maine in, like, 1994, erstwhile I was starting out, I was looking astatine pictures of Ethan Hawke and conscionable being like, ‘OK, this is what I request to do. My hair, my jacket,'” Scott told THR. “I mean, Ethan Hawke was and is truthful cool. So of people that’s what I wanted to be.”

Scott was alongside Walton Goggins, Cooper Koch, Diego Luna, Eddie Redmayne, and Jeffrey Wright for nan yearly Drama Actor Emmy Roundtable. Scott is successful nan Emmy moving for his move successful “Severance” Season 2. It took years for Scott to clasp his ain unsocial acting stardom, alternatively than effort to adopt Hawke’s onscreen persona.

“I was chasing and trying to beryllium this thing, and it took maine years to recognize that nan only point you person is you, and you’re nan only 1 that tin bring that to it. And coming to a spot of being comfortable pinch that and reasoning that is of immoderate worth [takes a agelong time],” he said. “I deliberation it goes backmost to what we were talking about, which is conscionable don’t interest astir what you consciousness you request to push yourself to be, what you person is already there. At nan aforesaid time, I consciousness like, to a definite extent, that’s thing that is lived and you person to travel to successful your ain way. Part of it is, I’m 52 and, for illustration Walton [Goggins], I’ve been present for 30 years.”

He reiterated, “When I was starting out, I wanted to beryllium Ethan Hawke and Stephen Dorff and immoderate was happening astatine nan time, and pinch property and experience, you travel to a spot of accepting yourself and what you person to offer. And I’m conscionable truthful grateful that I didn’t extremity up getting ‘Scream 2’ or ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ or immoderate of nan worldly that I auditioned for. And I auditioned for it all. I would’ve squandered it. I wasn’t ready.”

Scott besides offered immoderate proposal to his chap actors during nan THR roundtable. “The point that I came to yet was that nan things that ended up making immoderate quality successful my profession were nan choices I made for reasons different than career,” he said. “It was nan choices I made because it was thing that I wanted to do because I thought it would beryllium nosy aliases it was pinch my friends aliases I conscionable loved nan material, and I was ne'er moreover reasoning astir profession and really it could thief maine along. Whenever I make a determination for immoderate logic different than that, it goes sideways.”

Scott antecedently admitted that he could understand why Apple thought it was a consequence for him to beryllium formed arsenic nan lead successful “Severance” astatine nan time. “I couldn’t really blasted [Apple] astatine nan time,” Scott said of nan streamer’s evident apprehension to his casting. “I was thought of arsenic much of a comedic person, and it’s a large swing.”

Scott added that bid executive shaper and head Ben Stiller advocated for him to play Mark successful nan series. “I’ve ne'er knowledgeable thing for illustration that earlier successful show business. No one’s ever stuck their cervix out for maine for illustration that,” Scott said.