If you're thinking to yourself, "I didn't realize Scoot McNairy was in all three of these films," or perhaps even "I don't know who Scoot McNairy is," I would hazard that you actually probably do. The everyman actor is the definition of a "oh yes, that guy" figure, who you've certainly seen at least a half-dozen times onscreen without knowing his name. His impressive filmography includes titles as disparate as 12 Years a Slave and Herbie: Fully Loaded. He's popped up in Argo, Gone Girl, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Lyly, Lyle, Crocodile. On the TV side of things, he's had recurring roles on Halt and Catch Fire, Fargo and True Detective.
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Scoot McNairy in Speak No EvilBlunhouse Pictures
The delays of both Speak No Evil and Nightbitch timed them perfectly with A Complete Unknown, which filmed earlier in 2024 and was rushed out to qualify for the 2024/2025 awards season.
McNairy's second film, Nightbitch, which be-bopped around the festival circuit before a wide release in early December, sees McNairy starring opposite Amy Adams as a beleaguered housewife who may or may not be transforming into a dog. McNairy plays her husband, who travels often for work and leaves his canine wife home alone with their small child.
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Scoot McNairy in NightbitchSearchlight Pictures
Prior to signing onto the project, McNairy wasn't a folk-music expert. "I knew a little bit about Woody Guthrie from growing up in Texas," he told Parade, "and a lot of my friends are musicians that idolized him."
He also used his mother's battle with dementia as inspiration for the role. "Anybody that has a family member that has gone through that knows it's really difficult and trying," McNairy explained. "My mom was in this weird way very helpful to me when playing this person who lacks their motor skills and has a sort of blankness to them, where they're there but not really there. I leaned into that more than researching Woody."
McNairy developed the character's physicality on set with the movie's director James Mangold, who hammered home just how still McNairy needed to be.
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Scoot McNairy in A Complete UnknownSearchlight Pictures
"I think that was the first live on-set song he sang, in the shoot," McNairy told Parade, referring to the scene in which Chalamet's Dylan performs "Song to Woody" for his friend. "And so I was feeling the same way the entire crew did about how much he had embodied this iconic person that we know. I was jaw-dropped without being able to drop my jaw. To be one of the first to see it with a front row seat, I was just floored, man. I was absolutely floored."
"There was a moment when James was going to have me sing a song, and they were going to use some 1940s black-and-white footage of what he's singing," he explained. "Up until they finished the film, there was still talk about it. When it went away, I was a bit relieved."
McNairy and Bacon's relationship seems to be less based on the arts, however, and more based on a shared love of adventure.
Instead of talking shop, the pair are remodeling their fixer-upper. "Everything under the sun needs to be fixed, down to the plumbing," McNairy said.
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"I love the spontaneity that she has," he gushed. "And the willingness to go with my spontaneity. That's our tradition." The farthest they've made it so far is Arkansas, before they've had to turn around and head back.
"I'm not going to judge my characters," he said. "I feel like in Speak No Evil, you have a marriage that's rough and it's hard and you go through hard times in relationships. I was really just focused on being true to that. And in Nightbitch, I don't think he's an awful husband. I think that he's genuinely confused and wants to do the right thing, but just doesn't know how. I find those things very true and real in relationships."
Whether he's watching his wife grow fur, wrestling with murderers or providing his blessing to Bob Dylan, Scoot McNairy is giving it his all. "In all three of these parts," he said, "I was just doing my best to try and keep it ...
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