If you caught Sunday's third season premiere of HBO's True Detective, you wouldn't be alone if you didn't initially recognize the actor playing Tom Purcell. I know I didn't immediately know that behind the scowl and the facial hair of the grieving single father was actor Scoot McNairy, an actor I've loved and crushed over in many of his previous flm and TV appearance.
McNairy is known o be one of film and televisions most useful and intriguing actors and although incredibly good looking, is a chameleon, physically transforming into the characters he plays looking completely different and often almost unrecognizable from role to role and project to project.
If you don't think you've seen McNairy before, my bet is you probably have. The Dallas born actor has appeared in seventy plus projects including lead and supporting roles on film in movies including; Argo, Monsters, Killing Them Softly, 12 Years a Slave, Frank, Gone Girl, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. On television you may know McNairy from his roles in Narcos: Mexico, Halt and Catch Fire the last season of Fargo, and the Netflix series Godless.
Initially, McNairy made the move from Texas to Los Angeles to attend film school due to his interest in cinematography and photography. McNairy dropped out after about a year and began working in film production and working in movies doing carpentry and building sets. This led to him getting work as an extra which led to commercials and eventually film and TV.
True Detective (2019)
If you're interested in where the name Scoot came from, it stems from a nickname his father used to call him. Born John Marcus McNairy, Scoot's dad started calling him Scooter when he was only two years old. 'A lot of people are like, oh, it must be some amazing story. But it's because I used to scoot around on my butt.'
McNairy with Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff
Godless (2017)
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