We've been on the Adam Scott bandwagon for a while now, from his days as a rubber-cocked husband on HBO's Tell Me You Love Me, to his gloriously douchey turn as Will Ferrell's brother in Step Brothers. Now we're pleased to have the Independent Spirit Awards aboard with us, since they plucked his performance in a little-known movie called The Vicious Kind and stuck it in a category with award season titans like Jeff Bridges and Colin Firth. Bravo! In The Vicious Kind, Scott puts on a seething show as a deeply disturbed blue collar dude who's infatuated with his younger brother's girlfriend (Brittany Snow). Yes, Tell Me You Love Me was as depressing as TV gets, but this role is still a departure for an actor who's flaunted serious comedic chops in things like Knocked Up, Eastbound and Down, all over Funny or Die and most recently in Starz' catering comedy Party Down. When Scott rang us up to chat about his movie, we covered a wide range of topics, like his director's non-existent pubic hair, his upcoming bloodbath Piranha 3-D and the plot points of Ice Cube's next movie. The highly edited transcription, after the jump.
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