158. Ben Stiller and Adam Scott: Working it Innie and Outie

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week Mike sits down with Severance’s very own Ben Stiller and Adam Scott. The three of them dig into the behind the scenes of Severance Season 2 and discuss what it is that makes them work so well together as actor and director. Ben and Adam share audition advice for actors, as well as how their grieving processes influenced their work together. Plus, Mike and Adam nerd out about The Ben Stiller Show and Reality Bites, and Mike reveals which Severance character he almost played. Please Consider Donating To: www.unhcr.org/us/ and reproductiverights.org/

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0:00.0	Okay, the New Yorker article about you.
0:03.8	Yeah.
0:04.6	This is a direct quote.
0:06.7	This metier has been defined in part by Adam Scott's physical appearance,
0:11.6	which straddles the line between hunky and nondescript,
0:14.4	medium height, slightly hang dog eyes, thick chestnut hair that juts like a cockatiels crest.
0:22.7	So is that how you describe yourself?
0:25.7	100%.
0:27.4	Look, she nailed it.
0:30.4	That's my country club, cockatiels' crust.
0:32.2	That's right.
0:34.3	Yeah, New Yorkers good at doing descriptions of actors.
0:38.1	When they did the story of me years ago, the guy spent like two paragraphs on like the right side of my face versus the outside of my face.
0:47.0	Really?
0:47.7	Yeah.
0:48.2	Like one side worked and one side didn't.
0:57.4	Those are the voices of the great Ben Stiller and Adam Scott.
0:58.8	Ben Stiller and Adam Scott!
1:01.5	We were so excited about this episode.
1:05.7	Back in 2022, we had Ben Stiller on the podcast. It is one of my all-time favorite episodes.
1:08.9	Today we have him and Adam Scott together in the Working It Out studio.
1:14.7	Adam Scott is, of course, one of the stars of Severance, the great Apple TV Plus series. Ben and Adam are both producers on the show. Ben directed a ton of the episodes.
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