-Adam, welcome, welcome
-Thanks, man.
-to "The Tonight Show."
Thanks for coming on.
It's great to see you.
I heard that
you actually just came back from Italy.
-Yeah, like just right before I came here.
We were in Tuscany for a wedding that Dakota Johnson was not at.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Oh, yeah, she should've showed up at that.
-It wasn't the one
-It wasn't the one. -that she crashed.
-She picks one a year that she crashes, yeah.
[ Laughter ] Once in a lifetime,
she'll crash a wedding. -One lucky couple every year.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. It wasn't that one.
Oh, Tuscany must've been beautiful.
-Yeah, yeah, it's beautiful. -I've never been there.
I want to go. -Oh, really?
We went to Florence and we go --
Whenever we go to any foreign country,
my wife, Naomi, she's really good about --
She's one of those people that like brushes up on the language
and is like essentially fluent -Wow.
-by the time we get there. -Oh, cool. [ Laughter ]
-Which is great because everyone like comments
on how good she is and she gets us around.
But also, I'm just such -- I'm such an idiot
[ Laughter ] because I don't -- I don't know anything.
Like I don't know -- I struggle like saying --
I don't even know a word. -One word.
-No. -No.
And so I always like find myself
and it's so lame and so embarrassing,
but I always -- I always end up like --
like saying English words with like a terrible --
like an approximation of an accent.
[ Laughter ] Like the other day, I really find myself saying,
[ Changing accent ] Uh, yes, uh.
Do you -- Do you have a, uh,
a phone charger?
Yes, um.
[ Laughter ]
Yes, please." And the guy's like,
"Do you need a phone charger? I can just get you
[ Laughter ] a phone charger." -You're the one with the for--
[ Changes accent ] How you say --
[ Changes accent ] How do you say phone?
Grazie, yeah. [ Laughter ]
-That's so funny. -Oh, it's so bad.
-We were talking backstage and we were talking
about you said that you met one
of your favorite actors of all time,
the great Al Pacino. -Yeah. Yeah.
-I've never gotten to meet
Al Pacino. -You haven't met Al Pacino?
-No, but I love Al Pacino. -Oh, my God.
-He's one of my faves as well. -Yeah. He's like my very
fave -- You know, actors, you know, it's Al Pacino.
-That's your guy. -Yeah, he's my guy
and he's kind of the guy
and we were at the Vanity Fair Oscar party,
which is like all famous -- Like it's the place you go
if you want to feel less famous
[ Laughter ] because they're all there.
-Everyone's there. -[Both] Yeah.
-And I was talking to Kevin Bacon,
which is also very cool, and he was like,
"Hey, I was just talking to Al Pacino."
And I was like, "Oh! Al Pacino's here?"
He's like, "Yeah, he's right over there.
You should go check it out. Check out Al Pacino."
[ Laughter ] That's my guy! -That's your dude.
-And so I grabbed Naomi, I grabbed my wife,
and I'm like, "Let's go look at Al Pacino."
[ Laughter ] I don't want to like talk to him.
-No, of course not. -No. What would I say?
-It's like the Mona Lisa. -Right.
[ Laughter ] -You just want to go look at it.
-Take a gander. -Take a gander at Al Pacino.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. So, she's like, "Oh, come on."
So we go over and I find this spot like 15 yards.
[ Laughter ] Sure enough, he's right there.
He's on like this couch with a bunch of people.
And I find us spots like under a potted palm tree,
[ Laughter ] so we're kind of hidden
and I'm just like, "Let's just look at him for five minutes
and then we can go." -Get outta here, yeah.
-And so we're there and I'm like, "It's him. He's there."
And I see him. I kind of glance. I'm like,
"Yeah, he's there." There he is and he's talking to people.
Take another look over. He's still there. It's awesome.
And then it was like the third time I looked,
it was like a horror movie or something because,
the third time I look, he's just looking right at me.
[ Laughter ] It's like, "Oh!"
And not only is he looking at me,
he like looks at me and then he starts getting up
and walks over like one of those ottoman/foot rest things,
this giant thing.
And he's like climbing over it,
[ Laughter ] coming straight at us.
And I'm like, "Al Pacino. He's coming.
He's coming. Al Pacino is like walking over to us."
-Yeah.
-Sure enough, he comes right up and he's like --
I can't -- I don't really do a Pacino.
You do, right? -I could try, sure.
[ Laughter ] -Okay, okay. He goes --
[ As Pacino ] Oh, I -- I-I love your show.
So. -[ As Pacino ] I love your show!
-Yes! [ Laughter ]
[ Cheering and applause ] I love Sev--
"Severance"? -"Severance." "I love 'Severance.'"
-"I love 'Severance'"? Al Pacino said that to you?
-He said, "I love 'Severance'
and my son and I watch it together."
Yeah, I know. [ Laughter ]
-What you did say back to him?
-I was like, "You have no idea.
I was here -- I just wanted to look at you.
[ Laughter and applause ] And --"
-This is a bonus.
-I was like, he'll never believe me,
but, "That's what I was doing here, was looking at you."
And I'm like, "Because you're my guy, you're the best one."
[ Laughter ] -Wow! -You're my favorite?
[ Cheering and applause ] -You got to say that to him?
-Yeah, I said it to him.
-Good for you. -Yeah.
-Brought a photo, which I asked.
Here's a photo of you and Al Pacino right there.
-Yeah. -The one and only.
-That's the moment, right there. -Yeah. Yeah.
[ Cheering and applause ] -He asked me for a photo.
It was crazy. -How cool is that?
-It was pretty cool.
-Everyone loves "Severance," by the way. Congrats.
The reviews, rave reviews on the show. -Oh, thank you.
-We had Ben Stiller on the show for "Severance" when it first --
He directed a few episodes. -Yeah, yeah.
-You crush it in this show. It's so good.
-Thanks. Thank you. -Congrats on the success of it.
It just got picked up for Season 2. -Yeah.
[ Cheering and applause ] Thank you.
-It's so -- It's such a great idea
and it's so well-executed. Congrats on that.
-Thanks. -Can you describe --
How do you describe the show to people?
-It's weird.
It's like it's sort of a workplace thriller
sort of comedy, where it takes place in a world
where Lumon Industries is this company who has this technology.
Insert a microchip into your brain, so,
when you cross the threshold at your work, at your job,
suddenly, you don't know who you are in the outside world.
It separates your memories so all you know is work.
And then when you leave work at the end of the day,
it deactivates the chip, so you have no memory
of who you are at work or what you did there.
So it just completely separates your two realities,
work and life.
-Yeah. And it's so well done. It's so well shot
and it gets tricky and you're fantastic in it.
-Thanks, man. -I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Adam Scott in "Severance." Take a look.
-Clearly, he was trying to tell you something.
-Uh, no.
-Go lick a boob, Mark.
You're more loyal to this place than to your friend.
-I'm loyal to how it felt around here
before you showed up.
-You mean when Petey was here?
-Yeah, because there was balance.
We could have fun and work
without the whole [bleep] department imploding.
-Work is [bleep].
-The work is mysterious and important
and we deal with the uncertainty it brings us
in the way that Kier would've wanted --
together, as a family.
-I could not,
with a razor to my throat,
be less interested in being your family.
-Oh! Come on!
[ Cheering and applause ]
Adam Scott, everybody!
"Severance" is streaming now on Apple TV+.
Carrie Underwood performs after the break.
Stick around, everybody.