Adam Scott poses with the Canal+ Icon Award during the 9th Cannes International Series Festival, on April 26, 2026. MARC PIASECKI/GETTY IMAGES
"Do you remember the Le Monde reference on the West Wing TV show?" Not at all, but Adam Scott was happy to jog our memory. When the First Lady asks adviser Oliver Babish (Oliver Platt) if he reads the newspapers, he replies, "I only read Le Monde," with a delightful French accent. That was certainly a different era. In fact, if he had not become an actor, Adam Scott said he could have seen himself as a political journalist, "Not right now, but in a different administration, possibly."
Dressed in a white jacket, black tie and sporting carefully styled hair, Adam Scott looked much younger than his 53 years and gave off a star-pupil vibe. Yet, it was by playing the clown that he first became known. Le Monde met him at Canneseries on Sunday, April 26, just hours before he gave a master class and received the Canal+ Icon Award at the festival, an "icon" label that this hardworking but only recently well-known actor finds difficult to embrace. "I hope it doesn't just mean I'm old... It feels strange because I think that I'm at least still in the mindset of an out-of-work actor. I still feel like I'm 20 years old and sort of scrounging for acceptance."
