The legs pose Apparently had to fight to get Adam Scott cast in the lead role for “Departure weight. ”
Setting customs Hollywood Reporter that it was crucial to him convincing the streaming platform Apple TV+ To give Scott the chance to take on the character of Mark S. in the drama series. Stiller, as executive producing the show and directs several episodes, had previously directed Scott in his film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”
“So much of the show (‘Severance’) is based on ‘The Office’ and ‘Parks and Rec’ and ‘Office Space’, and that genre,” said Stiller and quoted Scott’s service at NBC Sitcom “Parks and Rec,” One Other comedy in the workplace. “The humor of the script that (Creator) Dan (Erickson) wrote where In that world But had this second layer for it. Casting was about finding out who could handle it. ”
Even Scott knew it was a risk for him to be thrown as the lead.
“I couldn’t really blame (Apple) at that time,” Scott said of the streamer’s obvious concern for his casting. “I thought of as more of a comic person, and that’s a big swing.”
Scott added that Stiller really advocated for him: “I have never experienced anything like it before in the show industry. No one is ever knocked out the throat For me so. “
Stiller earlier Said during the first we the party’s ‘hot’ that the creative direction for “departure” changed during the series’ development.
“It always started for me in comedy because it is a kind of workplace comedy, but it is also very, very strange and maybe a little scary,” Stiller said. “And then when the show developed it became a little cheer and stranger and maybe Smaller comedians Than I originally thought it was. But I feel that it is always on that kind of root to it, is that workplace comedy, which is similar to show like ‘The Office’ or ‘Parks and Rec.’ It was a show for me who was somehow in DNA for what the show was. ”
And while Scott also had several comedy roles (ie. “Party Down” And “Step Brothers”) under his belt before “Severrance”, the series is his first drama. Stiller even compared Scott’s acclaimed performance to Bryan Cranston in “Breaking Bad.”
“There are actors like Bryan Cranston who are allowed to go to another place when people see them in a certain role,” Stiller told New YorkerWith reference to Cranston’s leap from “Malcolm in the middle” to “Breaking Bad” and how Scott has followed a genre ride. “That’s what I felt about this.”
