Ben Stiller says Step Brothers led him to cast Adam Scott in Severance: “It’s when I knew he was an incredible actor”

Adam Scott was well known for his comedic chops before he landed the role in Apple TV Plus’s sci-fi hit Severance, thanks to roles in Parks and Recreation and Step Brothers. But now it seems these were a big part of the reason that he landed the role, according to executive producer Ben Stiller.

Posting on Twitter, he shared the scene in Step Brothers when Scott’s Derek is telling a story about fishing in the southern part of the gulf. Dale interrupts the story, ruining it and “possibly the entire evening”. Alongside it, Stiller wrote: “One of the funniest scenes in all of movies ever made in history of movies being made.”