{"id":562456,"date":"2026-05-02T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562456\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:31:10","slug":"hokum-adam-scott-and-damian-mccarthy-on-their-new-horror-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562456\/","title":{"rendered":"Hokum: Adam Scott and Damian McCarthy on their new horror | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/adam-scott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Scott<\/a> and Damian McCarthy sit down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/the-independent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent<\/a>\u2019s entertainment producer Eliza Ketcher to talk about their new folk horror <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/film\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">film<\/a>, Hokum.<\/p>\n<p>We discuss how the film sees Scott back in his \u201ca**hole era\u201d, playing Ohm Bauman, a cynical, abrasive author who travels to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents\u2019 ashes, only to become entangled in a supernatural mystery.<\/p>\n<p>We also look back at Scott\u2019s career \u2013 from Step Brothers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/the-good-place\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Good Place<\/a> \u2013 and dive into what makes him so compelling as both a likeable lead and, as he puts it, \u201cthe perfect a**hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hokum is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cinemas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cinemas<\/a> from 1 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Scott and Damian McCarthy sit down with The Independent\u2019s entertainment producer Eliza Ketcher to talk about their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[98427,8785,186840,183800,6494,192301,96,192300,11237,61805,2068,183803,2839,6487,131346,162949,192302,1671,190273,640,217,186994,183798,192299,397,56,184470,54,55,192303],"class_list":["post-562456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-antonin-kinsky","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-bestpix","tag-club-soccer","tag-color-image","tag-eight-finals","tag-entertainment","tag-first-leg","tag-horizontal","tag-julian-alvarez","tag-madrid","tag-match-sport","tag-movies","tag-photography","tag-sadness","tag-scoring","tag-scoring-a-goal","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-player","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-sports-team","tag-stadium","tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-uk","tag-union-of-european-football-associations","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wanda-metropolitano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}