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Just because Adam Scott might have become an ambassador for Pawnee as Ben Wyatt, he didn’t always get the nice guy roles. He’s spent plenty of time playing dirtbags and bullies along the way before Party Down and Parks and Recreation. There was the junior high douche (Boy Meets World), the 18th century douche (Hellraiser: Bloodline), the psychotic douche (Ronnie), and of course, the younger brother douche (Step Brothers). The guy just has a knack for playing jerk characters who you’d love to punch.
Today is Scott’s 42nd birthday, and to mark the occasion, I’ve rounded up a brief timeline of his roles that you might have forgotten about before Leslie Knope came calling.
1. Boy Meets World (1994-95): Griffin “Griff” Hawkins
He appeared in various episodes.
2. ER (1995): David Kerstetter
“Full Moon, Saturday Night”
NBC
3. Murder One (1995): Sydney Schneider
He appeared in various episodes.
20th Century Fox
4. Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996): Jacques
5. The Last Days of Frankie the Fly (1996): Race Track Valet
Blueline Productions
6. Star Trek: First Contact (1996): Defiant Conn Officer
7. Party of Five (1998-99): Josh Macon
He appeared in various episodes.
Fox
8. Ronnie (2002): Ronnie Schwann
Ripple Films
9. High Crimes (2002): Lt. Terrence Embry
20th Century Fox
10. Six Feet Under (2002): Ben Cooper
“In Place of Anger” and “Invisible Woman”
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Ah, yes, that classic show “Sydney Schneider” that we have all heard of where he plays the title character…
Dude was on the Defiant!
That’s serious street cred.
When I watch Step Brothers, I don’t even recognize him, he’s so good. It’s like it’s not even the same guy. It’s very rare that a guy can play a complete douchebag in one movie and then a super nice guy in another.
Bradley Cooper in Wedding Crashers is another example where his character is played so well, you forget it’s really the same dude from Silver Linings or American Sniper.
You might just need glasses
No, I’m with him. It’s like seeing Red in Orange is the New Black. I forget I’ve ever seen her in anything else, and I’ve seen every Voyager, so that’s saying something.
He was in a great indie “The Vicious Kind” as well.
I was going to say this if someone else hadn’t yet. Plus it has Brittany Snow looking great with black hair AND JK Simmons. A hidden gem, indeed.
All The Times You Saw Adam Scott’s Balls And May Not Have Realized It
Tell Me You Love Me
If you are a Parks fan…and a Lost fan…get ready to see what can’t be unseen!
There was was great ball-acting done on that show. Better boob-acting.
We will NEVER forget him from Torque!!!
Author man crush on Adam Scott, or nah?
Ben Wyatt would FLIP OUT if he knew the same actor that played him was in a Star Trek movie, on the Defiant, no less.
WHY HASN’T HE AGED IN 20 YEARS? Is there a painting of an elderly Adam Scott somewhere in his house, and he has to make sure he never looks at it?
Adam Scott as Griff Hawkins in Boy Meets World has an awesome line that I still quote to this day.
“So you’re Griff?”
“Must be tough to live in a world where not everyone’s name is stitched on their jacket… Tommy.”
Looking back, Adam Scott played a lot of thugs/generally douchey guys over the years. It’s kinda amazing how Parks and Rec completely revamped my opinion of him to that of a dork.
His character on Boy Meets World was a high school kid, not a junior high kid.
Is that the guy from Rilo Kiley?