Before Adam Scott booked Parks and Recreation and Severance, he was a working actor like anyone else — so much so that he auditioned for 2002’s Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker despite being killed off earlier in the franchise’s history.
The four-time Emmy-nominated actor and producer made his feature film debut in 1996’s Hellraiser IV: Bloodline, in which he played Jacques, the assistant to Mickey Cottrell’s Duc de L’Isle who is eventually killed by Angelique (Valentina Vargas).
“Things don’t go great. I think someone bites my face off,” he told Seth Meyers in a recent appearance on Late Night.
“My agent sent me an audition for Hellraiser VI, and I’m like, ‘Now, wait a second … I was in Hellraiser IV,” Scott recalled, noting that while his character “does not make it” he desperately needed a job. “So I’m like, ‘Screw it,’ and I go to the audition just thinking, ‘Maybe they won’t notice that I was in Hellraiser IV.”
The Hokum star remembered being in the waiting room and seeing a producer from the earlier film in the office, and “just holding my papers up, just like, ‘OK, if he doesn’t see me and they think I do a good job, maybe I’ll get in Hellraiser VI as well.’”
Scott didn’t end up booking the role, joking that the producers and casting department ended up not casting him due to his acting, not the continuity error. All’s well that ends well, as he returns to the horror genre with the Stephen King-esque Hokum, which released in theaters May 1.
Elsewhere during his late night appearance, Scott said he would soon be gearing up to film the anticipated third season for Apple TV’s Severance.