Except for Parks and Recreation and Severance being Adam Scott’s two most well-known roles that simply occur to primarily happen in his characters’ workplaces, just lately, followers have made one other connection between the 2 exhibits. Throughout Season 6, Episode 12 of Parks and Recreation, Scott’s character of Ben Wyatt mainly pitches the idea of Severance to his spouse, Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope. And sure, Scott has seen the scene go viral.
Whereas we cry over the Severance Season 2 finale and prepare for Season 3, Adam Scott was just lately proven the Parks And Rec clip the place Ben means that he and Leslie maintain their residence life and work life “separate” like a “firewall system.” Try his response whereas on Radio X:
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How wild is that scene? If in case you have any suspicions about it, as an enormous Parks and Recreation fan, I can verify it’s from an episode that aired again in 2014, over a decade in the past.
What blew my thoughts much more was what Adam Scott shared in regards to the making of it:
Is not that bizarre? Truly, I directed that episode which is additional bizarre.
It’s true. Adam Scott solely directed one Parks and Recreation episode within the 96 he was a part of, and it was the one individuals maintain sharing for its Severance connection. It’s referred to as “Farmers Market” and it has Ben Wyatt coming again to work at Metropolis Corridor after a hiatus. And when Leslie Knope goes over-the-top, as per ordinary, with taking work residence together with her, Ben suggests the couple go away work at work.
And humorous sufficient, Scott didn’t even bear in mind filming the scene till the web discovered it. In his phrases:
That by no means even occurred to me till I noticed it on Instagram a pair months in the past.
So in different phrases, Adam Scott saved his work at work with regards to this growingly common second on Parks and Recreation. This has such severed vitality!
Now, one would possibly suppose the scene from the present is proof that it was really Scott who created the concept for Severance. Nevertheless, it was creator Dan Erickson who created the concept for the AppleTV+ present whereas working non permanent jobs and imagining a world wherein he may dissociate from work as a substitute of experiencing it.
After Ben Stiller received ahold of the script for the primary episode of Severance to direct it, he received in contact with Adam Scott and pitched him the concept. Scott referred to as the idea a “sticky, catchy, nice concept,” and he waited a 12 months earlier than he even noticed a script, however he was in!
As we discovered just lately, Stiller needed to battle for Scott to earn the lead function, however one of many causes he did need him within the first place was due to his historical past on a office comedy like Parks and Recreation (which the actor really hasn’t rewatched for a candy purpose).
Now, as we return to Severance hiatus mode, take a look at one Ben Wyatt-coded second throughout our unique interviews for Season 2 and return and watch that Swverance -coded Parks and Rec second with a Peacock subscription.