Among the hundreds of thousands of people roaming Coachella this past week, there’s a good chance you unknowingly passed Severance star Adam Scott.
If the weekend is a blur for anyone who attended one of the US’ biggest festivals, Scott was the 53-year-old there to catch The Strokes — and he apparently spent a lot of the rest of the time looking distinctly unimpressed.
The Park and Recreations actor explained that he actually “hated it” this year, detailing a long list of frustrations during an appearance on Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
Scott said the trip started with him buying tickets, before his teenage daughter’s plans effectively expanded the whole mission. He told Kimmel: “Our daughter, Frankie, she’s 17 years old. She just somehow — and I don’t remember when and how — convinced [my wife] Naomi and I to bring she and four of her friends to Coachella.”
He added: “She never asked us. It just became a thing we were doing. And so we did it. We brought she and her friends to Coachella.”
With Coachella sprawling across a massive 333 acres, the weekend can quickly turn into a marathon of walking, waiting, and trying not to lose your bearings. For Scott, the visit also dragged on longer than expected.
“We were there for like four days. Somehow we were there for four days,” he said. “We dropped them off and picked them up a couple times and then also one of the days we actually went to Coachella, we went inside and everything.”
However, Scott suggested the current version of the festival didn’t win him over — even with this year’s big-name lineup, which included Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G.
He explained: “It was terrible. I hated it… I had gone to Coachella like a long time ago and it’s probably exactly the same. I just now hate it… I really wanted to see The Strokes. And so I, you know, we went and saw them and that was great.”
Then came a familiar complaint for anyone who’s aged out of standing for hours on end: once a set finishes, there’s not much space to properly decompress before the next one begins.
He continued to tell Kimmel: “But then that ends and there’s nowhere to go. Like there’s nowhere to lay down and relax while you wait, because then we wanted to see someone else—and Justin Bieber was performing. He was terrific.”
On top of the exhaustion, Scott said keeping up with his daughter and her friends became a challenge — and the scale of the Empire Polo Club grounds in Indio, California, didn’t help.
He went on to say: “And then when that ended, it took us an hour just to find Frankie and her friends.
“We find them, we get them in the car, and then we were in the parking lot for two and a half hours just to get out of the parking lot. And like, we went to bed at like 5:00 AM.”