Sure, it sounds like it’d be fun to be friends with famous TV people—especially if you, yourself, are a famous TV person, like Severance star Adam Scott. But consider this: Being friends with your fellow famouses also means they can call you up directly to scream at you about how irritated your TV show’s cliffhangers are making them. Which sounds like it could be a bit of a stress!
This, per a recent conversation Variety published between Scott and his long-time friend and frequent co-star Kristen Bell, which is a little bit about their respective projects—including Bell’s Nobody Wants This—but mostly about how Bell and husband Dax Shepherd have been harassing Scott for the last few years, leaving him (in Scott’s words) “hilarious and deeply flattering, but also deeply insulting” voicemails about the Apple TV+ show.
Bell, for her part, is unapologetic about the tendency, explaining that she and Shepherd find the show’s endings “so biologically frustrating” that they feel moved to leave their buddy “a nice, long, detailed, unedited voice memo. And you got a lot of those.” And honestly, we would very much love to hear these; apparently Shepherd was once so irritated by a particular cliffhanger that, to quote Bell, he “pretty much screamed into the voice memo, ‘Hey, Adam. Kristen just fell out of a two-story window. I bet you’d like to know how she’s doing. I’ll tell you next week!'” (Scott, meanwhile, reminisces “fondly” about getting a voicemail in the midst of the very long gap between the show’s first and second seasons in which the couple asked him, “Hey, just curious, are you guys shooting this one minute per week? Why is it taking so fucking long?” Bell’s in-the-moment response: “Give us the show!”) The takeaways: Kristen Bell and Dax Shepherd are pretty cute, but also, you maybe shouldn’t give them your phone number.
