Severance star on huge role he missed out on
The part ultimately went to Michael C. Hall, who Scott acknowledged was perfectly cast for the role.
Scott admitted that the rejection was so devastating it made him consider quitting acting, as 'Six Feet Under' was a highly acclaimed show at the time.
Despite not securing the main role, Scott later made a guest appearance in the show's second season as Hall's onscreen boyfriend, Ben Cooper.
Scott went on to achieve significant success, notably as Ben Wyatt in 'Parks and Recreation' and currently as the lead in the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ series 'Severance', for which he has received Emmy nominations.
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Warner Bros TV boss Channing Dungey told Deadline in April that they were 'still weighing a couple of different options' for the villain. However, that's not stopped fans speculating that the dark lord may have been cast in secret. The first season of the Harry Potter TV show is scheduled for release in early 2027. Filming kicked off on July 14 at Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden, with the first season set to focus on the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. More Trending Several photos from the set have leaked online, including pictures of Nick Frost and Dominic McLaughlin on their way to Diagon Alley (we presume) and the Durseleys at London Zoo. Filming for the first season will continue until the middle of next year, with production on the second season set to begin soon after. HBO has confirmed that Harry Potter's first season will have eight episodes rather than the rumoured six (phew). View More » A version of this article was originally published on June 9. 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Forgotten drama that had viewers 'glued to their screens' flies up UK streaming
A forgotten mystery drama starring Jodie Whittaker has had viewers 'glued to their screens' since it dropped on streaming. One Night aired in Australia, the series One Night was made available to UK viewers in November 2024 but quickly pulled from streaming/ The six-part series followed friends Tess (Jodie), Simone (Nicole da Silva) and Hat (Yael Stone), whose lives have been changed by 'the traumatic events of one night in their hometown twenty years previously'. It was teased of the show: 'One Night is the story of three women whose bond was all but destroyed by the traumatic events of one night 20 years ago. 'Since then, Simone has harboured secret hopes of becoming a novelist, but most of her haphazard attempts have been shoved into her bottom drawer. Now, at the age of 40, she has finally written the one story she could never get out of her mind, and her debut manuscript has become an unexpected overnight success. Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. 'But it soon becomes apparent that the devastating story the book tells doesn't exclusively belong to her. At the heart of Simone's novel is a tragedy which also happened to Tess (Jodie Whittaker) and Hat (Yael Stone), her two childhood best friends. 'As it becomes harder to prise fact from fiction, one person's memory and story from another's, the book threatens to derail all their friendships, bringing old traumas to the surface of the small coastal community where they grew up, and stirring its perpetrators, who want to make it all go away.' Despite it being labelled a 'very solid crime drama' by critics, One Night suddenly disappeared from Paramount Plus after just three months. It was explained at the time that this was due to the platform reportedly shifting towards a focus on Hollywood-style content with mass appeal and wider cost-savings efforts. However, ITV has now brought the show back and is allowing viewers to tune in. Since landing on the service, the show has found a new lease on life and is currently third on ITVX's 'Top 10 Most Watched TV' shows. Fans of the show have been keen to make their feelings known with Rudolph Reindeer writing on Google: 'Praying for a second season, binged season 1 in one day, every episode kept me glued to it. So real and so brilliant, the cast was so well selected.' Vicky Hyde was similarly impressed, adding: I'm not one to normally write reviews, but this show was too good not to. Came for Whittaker and stayed for the whole show. Whittaker's performance just took the cap off! Absolutely phenomenal and definitely award-worthy.' General audiences weren't the only ones who were impressed, either. At the time of its release, The Guardian wrote the following about One Night: 'The overall effect is very much of an Australian Big Little Lies – a female-centred story played out mostly amongst affluent people in shiny clothes and shinier houses.' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 'With strong performances and a diverse cast, it demands attention — but its biggest triumph may just be in the conversations it sparks after it's watched,' The London Evening Standard shared. 'The show might have benefitted from unspooling its central narrative over fewer episodes because after the halfway mark the drama becomes less character-driven, skating into crime mystery territory. But the acting throughout One Night is incredible,' The Age added. One Night was the first TV role since playing the first female Doctor for Jodie. Reflecting on what drew her to the project, the 41-year-old actress explained that the drama depicted a story about sexual assault in a way that felt 'completely unique' to her. 'What made this completely unique to me and completely engrossing was the change of POV [point of view],' she told Metro. 'Very often it's told from outside in – there's an investigation, there's detectives, there's people working things out. This is about the decimation something like that can have. 'It's also about how the event – whether it happened a minute ago or 20 years ago – is defining for a group of women that it affects, particularly this friendship group. But also what it's about is how we all survive something like that and who owns memory, who has the right to tell stories, and especially if that story is true.' 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