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THR pulls our drama actors aside for some "Off Script" moments ahead of their THR Roundtable interview. Find out how Cooper Koch wanted to make his trailer feel like Erik Menendez's room and why Eddie Redmayne would want to be a pizza maker. Plus, Adam Scott reveals the movie that made him want to become and actor and more.

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00:00Raiders of the Lost Ark was the thing where I was like, I want to do that. I remember thinking,

00:17I think maybe archaeology is, and then I saw real genius and I was like, you know what,

00:22I want to start inventing things. And then eventually it was like, I think I just want

00:26to be an actor. It's West Side Story. When I was a kid, I was like in fifth grade and I did that show

00:31the first time and it was the first time I felt like I was really feeling actual emotions. The

00:37movie that I did see for the first time and I felt like, oh, this man is speaking to me. I understand

00:44him. It's Tender Mercies. And it was Robert Duvall that I became obsessed with. He was my hero.

00:53I saw a production of a Midsummer Night's Dream at the Olivier Theatre when I was a kid. And

01:00Timothy Spore was playing Bottom. And I was completely stunned by him.

01:04For me, acting was making sure I was around my dad, making sure I could have a connection,

01:13not just with him, but with his world. It was more about belonging to that family, more of a kind

01:18of like a circus family who's moving and you just don't want to be left out and you're enjoying,

01:24you know? Actually, it was a friend of mine in college. They put on a play. I said to myself,

01:31I can do that at least. He was awful. The most essential thing that I have always put in is

01:38I'm so bad with names and faces. I need a kind of name of every single person on the cast and crew

01:45so that I can try and remember people's names, which normally by the end of the shoot, I've got down

01:50just in time for it to be useless. You know what I do? Like it's Topo Chico, the sparkling water.

01:58I drink a lot of it. Tennis rackets and tennis balls and all kinds of stuff that made me feel like

02:03it was Eric's room. I like cooking, so I bring my knives. I don't know why, but that keeps me sane,

02:09you know? Having one or two pictures of your kids and something that you can connect easily with

02:15and remind you what you're going back to soon, you know? And a nice pillow. You know, I generally

02:21just have a computer and, you know, like anyone else, a couple books. It's always useful to have

02:27like the script that you're working on. I find that that's helpful. I have this van that is

02:33an extension of my home and my family is in that van with me now whenever I'm not at home

02:40and I go, I carry it to pretty much everything that I do. I've just spent the last six months

02:46doing Fallout, going to it every day and I can't tell you what it has meant to my peace of mind.

02:54Using it as a trailer is something that means a great deal to me.

03:00If I could switch jobs with any profession for just one day, it would be like a White House

03:07correspondent. Not now, really, because it would be a bummer. Maybe in like 1987 or something,

03:13like during Iran Contra, that would have been really fun.

03:15I think I would do music. I think I would want to be like a rock star, play Coachella.

03:20For many years, I thought like I could be a good soccer player, but I was obviously lying

03:28to myself. My kids are 14 and 16 and their lives are starting to like get away from me,

03:35so I'll try to find a job that gets me closer.

03:38I work for the Washington Gas Company. It was like being a pirate, you know, in a truck all

03:44day with a bunch of hooligans. It was the best gig I ever had, man. So if I could do

03:49that one more day again, I'd ride the truck with the boys.

03:52I've always dreamt of being a pizza maker at Pizza Express. And I have a friend who was

03:58a pizza maker at Pizza Express and says it gets pretty boring after the first day. So I

04:02would love to do it just for a day.

04:03I actually enjoy just puttering around the house, in the backyard, listening to podcasts.

04:11It sounds like I'm 77 years old and sometimes it feels that way, but I like just being around,

04:17like not leaving my house and just finding things to do around.

04:21Tennis, maybe a little like hot tub vibe. Oh, I usually play volleyball on Sundays.

04:27I'd be sleeping right now. I would be asleep probably now and then cook some breakfast but

04:35eat it around 2 p.m. Try to stay as close as possible to a bed and not move around. That's

04:42a perfect Sunday for me. This morning I went for breakfast and I bumped into Gwendolyn Christy,

04:47who is the person you want to bump into at breakfast. She's so full of joy and exuberance.

04:55We had breakfast together and I could have stayed there all day.

04:58Keep them talking. Just keep fucking going. What else we got?

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