When Adam Scott landed an audition to play the biggest jerk in Step Brothers, his mind immediately went to the supermarket checkout lane. “It was so long ago that I thought of a magazine,” he said in an interview for my 2018 oral history of the movie. The glossy mag was called The Robb Report. Aimed at filthy-rich men and wannabe filthy-rich men, it featured photos of luxury vehicles, fancy clothes, big mansions, and super-yachts. Before going to meet with director Adam McKay, Scott bought himself an issue.
“It was guys with suits on, on tarmacs in front of private jets, in their sports cars, in their sunglasses, with their slicked back hair,” he said. “They were super serious. That’s sort of where my mind went. It was really funny. All you had to do was put a little spin on it.”
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