Severance star on balancing Hollywood fame with family life: 'Everything's a challenge at some point'
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Adam Scott says achieving a healthy work-life balance can be tricky for actors who spend large chunks of time away from their friends and family. The 52-year-old star, who is about to return to our screens for the second season of Severance tells Sky News: "It's hard because we live in Los Angeles, and we make the show in New York. So, it's months and months away from home.".
It's been three years since the first season of the Emmy-award-winning workplace thriller, which was met with widespread critical acclaim. Scott plays Mark Scout, a microdata refinement team leader who catalogues numbers for shadowy corporate entity, Lumon Industries.
Part sci-fi experiment, part chilling workplace parable, the show imagines a world in which workers can opt to undergo a surgical procedure called severance to divide their consciousness into separate professional and personal entities, dubbed "innie" and "outie".
While Scott's character has undergone the procedure to help him divide his time more effectively, he has come up with a less extreme solution to achieve work-life balance. Best known for his role in Parks And Recreation, and with numerous other credits including Big Little Lies and Party Down, Scott and his wife, TV and film producer Naomi Sablan, set up their own production company Gettin' Rad Productions in 2012.
