How Adam Scott became an accidental horror movie star

Source: The Verge

Early Exposure

Adam Scott grew up watching horror movies at, as he describes it, “probably too young” an age. He never set out to work specifically in the genre.

First Major Role

His first major film role was in Hellraiser IV (1996). “It wasn’t because I was a Hellraiser fan,” he says. “It was because it was the job I got.”

Later Work

Later, he took a starring role in Krampus not because it was horror, but because it evoked the kinds of ’80s movies he grew up with, like Poltergeist and E.T. It may not have been intentional, but he’s steadily built up a solid body of work in the genre, including leading the …

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