Meteoric success is more of a rarity than it seems. J K Simmons had already been a familiar face for almost three decades when he won his long-overdue Oscar for Whiplash, wryly observing he was "an overnight sensation at 60". Severance’s Adam Scott has trodden a similar path.
Now listed by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people, he’s been perfecting his craft for more than 30 years, and the last 10 have seen him become one of the most in-demand actors around. And Netflix is currently showing a movie that helped him get there.
