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Scoot McNairy Biography

John Marcus McNairy (born November 11, 1977) known professionally as Scoot McNairy, is an American actor and producer known for his roles in films including Monsters, Argo, Killing Them Softly, 12 Years a Slave, Frank, Gone Girl, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. In television, he starred in the AMC period drama Halt and Catch Fire and the Netflix western miniseries Godless.

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To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

Book, Callback, Commercials, Hang, People, Three

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

Acting, Behavior, Human, Thinking, Tunes

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

Character, Job, Jobs, Laying, Strong

I love L. A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

Country, Full, Moving, Packed, Stuff, Texas

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

Cinematography, Know, Like You, Pictures, Wish, Wow

I just like good stories. I like really interesting scripts, I love really great filmmakers. And I'm open to all genres and all stories. But, there's certain ones that attract me, and I don't really sort of look at what I think is going to be successful, I look at more so, you know, is this what I want to do regardless of what everybody else thinks?

Good, Interesting, Like, Love, Successful, Thinking

I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

Face, Hands, Long, People, Talk, Watch

I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.

Back, Black, Hands, Make, See, Want

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

Cinematography, Course, Courses, Photography, Rolled

It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

Actor, Believable, Different, Real, Technique, Work

To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.

Coming, Coming Out, Same, Three, Time

I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.

Choices, Commercials, Different, Mind, Picky

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

Fall, Kid, Kids, Movie, School, Theater