Adam Scott; Rider Strong.Photo: Evans Vestal Ward/NBC via Getty; David Becker/Getty
Adam Scottis getting something off his chest.
On Monday’s episode of theBoy Meets Worldrewatch podcastPod Meets World, the 49-year-old actor opened up about a moment he said happened on set nearly three decades ago that still haunts him to this day.
TheSeveranceactor recalled that as filming wrapped on the season 2 finale, the cast and crew erupted into cheers. Scott went to give Strong a hug and high five, butsaid Strong pushed him awayand gave him a look of, " ‘Wait a second — who the f— are you?’ " Scott remembered.
Scott then said Strong, who played Shawn Hunter on the show, ran away from him. “Literally, this has been tugging on me for 29 years,” Scott said.
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Fishel, 41, and Friedle, 46, laughed at the admission while Strong said he had “no recollection” of the moment and wondered aloud, “Are you serious? Why would I do that?”
“That actually doesn’t sound like me at all, ‘cause I’m generally a hugger!” he added, to which Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence on the show, agreed, “He’s such a hugger.”
“He was a little kid, and I was this stranger grown up,” Scott said of Strong. “Again, Ihad no idea what I was supposed [to do]. It seemed like we were all supposed to be joyous and hug each other. Oh God, it was horrifying.”
Laughing, Scott seemed relieved Strong didn’t remember the brush-off because “to some extent, that means it wasn’t a traumatic experience.”
Thought Strong didn’t remember the incident, he apologized to Scott: “Like I said, that totally doesn’t sound like me at all. I’m so sorry.”
This isn’t the first time Scott shared an embarrassing on-set experience. A few years ago, while visitingConan O’Brien’s since-canceled late night show, theParks and Recreationalum shared another funny story that happened while filming the first season ofBig Little Lies.
“One time,Reese Witherspoonand I were shooting a scene,” Scott recalled. “It was the last scene we had together in season 2 and it was a scene in a therapist’s office. In between takes she said something funny,” Scott recounted onConan.
That’s when Scott said what started as laughter in response to Witherspoon’s joke turned embarrassing,as snot flew out of his nose. “And I just excused myself, went and found the makeup person, got a Kleenex and wiped it off,” he added.
O’Brien, 59, did not mince words when telling his guest that the time to broach the snot subject had long passed, and offered the only solution for Scott to save face with Witherspoon, 46.
source: people.com
