Adam Scott was still early in his career when he appeared in Hellraiser: Bloodline, the fourth film in the franchise. […]
Adam Scott was still early in his career when he appeared in Hellraiser: Bloodline, the fourth film in the franchise. The 1996 sequel gave Scott one of his first major movie roles as Jacques, an assistant who gets pulled into the series’ Cenobite mythology before being killed off.
The movie was the final Hellraiser film released theatrically before the franchise moved into direct-to-video sequels, but for horror fans, it cemented Scott’s place in the series’ history long before Party Down, Parks and Recreation, and Severance.
Years later, Scott revealed he hilariously auditioned for Hellraiser: Hellseeker, the sixth film in the franchise, despite already appearing – and dying – in Hellraiser: Bloodlines, hoping nobody would notice.
Variety noted an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where Scott was promoting his latest project Hokum, and recounts the time he auditioned for Hellseeker years after making his film debut in Hellraiser: Bloodline.
“My agent sent me an audition for Hellraiser 6, and I thought, ‘Wait a second… I was in Hellraiser 4,” Scott said. Still, needing the work, he decided to go ahead with the audition, thinking “screw it” and “maybe they won’t notice that I was in Hellraiser 4.
While Scott obviously didn’t land a return trip to the Hellraiser franchise, the story adds another strange chapter to the actor’s long connection with horror. Even after building a career in comedy and prestige television, Scott still remains recognizable to longtime genre fans as one of the early faces of the Hellraiser series, making his failed attempt to sneak back into the franchise years later even funnier in retrospect.
