Adam Scott beforehand tried an unlikely return to the “Hellraiser” franchise, even after his character’s demise.
Throughout a current look on Late Night time with Seth Meyers, the place he was selling his newest challenge “Hokum,” Scott mirrored on his audition for 2002’s “Hellraiser: Hellseeker,” years after he made his movie debut in “Hellraiser: Bloodline.” Within the earlier installment, Scott performed the function of Jacques, a servant who helps summon a demon earlier than assembly a violent finish.
On the time, Scott mentioned, he wasn’t in any respect acquainted with the long-running horror collection and was simply looking forward to the chance. However when an audition for the sixth movie got here round, he was initially disconcerted by the prospect of becoming a member of a franchise through which his character was already useless.
“My agent despatched me an audition for ‘Hellraiser 6,’ and I assumed, ‘Wait a second…I used to be in ‘Hellraiser 4,'” Scott mentioned. Nonetheless, needing work, he determined to go forward with the audition, considering “shit” and “perhaps they will not discover I used to be in Hellraiser 4”.
This proved troublesome in observe. Scott remembers sitting within the ready room and recognizing a producer from the earlier movie close by, prompting him to attempt to keep away from being acknowledged. “I used to be type of holding my papers considering, ‘If he does not see me they usually assume I am OK, perhaps I am going to get him,'” he mentioned.
He in the end did not get the function.
Wanting again, Scott described his function in “Hellraiser: Bloodline” as an essential first break, though the expertise had its quirks – together with arriving on set to search out his chair labeled with the unsuitable identify. Though the movie itself underwent delays and intensive reshoots earlier than its launch, he mentioned he was simply grateful to be working at the moment.
“I bear in mind being excited as a result of it was an actual film, and I didn’t care if it was crap,” Scott mentioned. “And it ended up being very, very shitty, however I used to be simply blissful to have a job.”