Years after Parks and Recreation ended, behind-the-scenes stories still crack up fans, and Aziz Ansari just added another gem involving Adam Scott to the list. Ansari, best known for playing the smooth-talking, overconfident Tom Haverford on the show, recently shared what he called one of the hardest scenes he ever had to film. Not because it was emotional, but because he just couldn’t stop laughing.
Aziz Ansari couldn’t film Parks and Recreation Scenes with Adam Scott without breaking
In a recent conversation with Amy Poehler, the actor and comedian admitted that filming with Adam Scott, who played Ben Wyatt on Parks and Recreation, often made it hard for him to keep a straight face. He recalled one scene, in particular, that was almost impossible to finish because they kept cracking up. Moreover, the two would often look at each other and completely lose it.
“We couldn’t get through it,” Aziz Ansari shared on the Good Hang podcast. “This is the only time I think this ever happened on Parks or anything, where me and Adam were like, ‘Let’s just film the rest of the stuff and we’ll come back to that. We’ll just come back to the [line],’ because we couldn’t do it,” he claimed.
The scene comes from the Season 4 episode “Born and Raised,” where Tom and Ben meet local TV host Joan Callamezzo (played by Mo Collins) for lunch. “This is the hardest scene I’ve ever had to film in my entire acting career,” Ansari recalled.
Laughing, the Master of None star then elaborated, “Joan says, ‘I’m going to go powder my nose, amongst other things.’ And then she walks away, and then Ben is supposed to say, ‘Dude, is she going to go powder her vagina?’ And we just couldn’t do it.”
Moreover, Aziz Ansari and Adam Scott broke character several times. Consequently, the crew had to film the other scenes first, before circling back to finish the aforementioned one later. Ansari also praised Mo Collins’ performance in the scene, appreciating how it elevated Scott’s comic responses.
Ansari and Amy Poehler were mainstays on Parks and Recreation for all seven seasons from 2009 to 2015. Adam Scott joined in the last two episodes of Season 2 with Rob Lowe. He stayed as a series regular from Seasons 3 through 7. Meanwhile, Mo Collins first showed up in Season 2 and reappeared in multiple episodes across every season after that.
Originally reported by Rishabh Shandilya on ComingSoon.net.
