With Mark, the micro-chipped office drone, the star has said put ‘befuddled beta males’ behind him. He reveals why shooting during Covid fed the show’s strangeness – but still can’t explain the goats
f you’re looking for an everyman, Adam Scott’s the brand leader – although you may have to look hard. He tends to blend with the scenery. At the age of 49, he’s been an actor for decades, serving as a wired, anxious mainstay on shows such as Parks and Recreation and Big Little Lies. But he likes to recall how he made his first screen appearance as an extra in the video for the REM song Drive, then spent the next 25 years. The man’s a hidden treasure; sometimes even hidden from himself.
In the acclaimed Apple TV+ series Severance, Scott landed a leading role and ran with it. He stars as Mark S, the office drone who’s been fitted with a microchipped NDA that separates his home life from his work persona. It’s been the best gig of his life, he says. The most demanding one, too. “I certainly felt the weight and the pressure to make sure the show didn’t crash. Because it’s one of the only times I’ve been in something where, if I sucked, the whole thing wouldn’t work.
Scott played the lead, but he should have charged double. That’s because he’s Work Mark and Home Mark, the “innie” and the “outie”, estranged halves of the divided self. The notion of severance is a little like acting, he says. “The line can be blurry because it’s the same person, I guess. Same guy, different hats. The people are separate but what one does affects the other.”
“We started shooting in the midst of lockdown and the pre-vaccine pandemic,” he says. “I plopped down in New York, leaving my wife and kids in Los Angeles, and because of the intense quarantine laws it was impossible to go back and forth. So for three or four months I could only see them on FaceTime. Also, Mark is grieving his wife and I was grieving my mom, who died a few months before filming.
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