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“I am always in the mindset of the out-of-work actor who no one is interested in hiring,” Adam Scott confesses to François Arnaud. Neither attained household-name status right out of the gate (the pair have 50 years’ worth of acting credits between them), but the admission still comes as a surprise. Scott is so firmly cemented in the popular imagination as the quintessential “straight man” of millennial comedy that it’s hard to imagine the last three decades of television without him.