{"id":942174,"date":"2026-07-18T00:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942174\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:09:32","slug":"tom-everett-scott-got-to-do-every-dads-oasis-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942174\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Everett Scott Got to Do Every Dad\u2019s Oasis Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n \u201cIt was then when I was like, \u2018Ah, I like my character and I know who he is.\u2019\u201d
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There comes a point in Elle, Amazon\u2019s Legally Blonde prequel series that essentially has the plot of Frasier, when everything unlocks for our leading lady\u2019s father. It\u2019s near the end of episode three, and Wyatt (Tom Everett Scott) and Eva (June Diane Raphael) are in the midst of hosting their first soir\u00e9e as new city transplants. They\u2019ve absconded from Bel Air to Seattle after Wyatt botched a nose job for a high-profile client, and the couple \u2014 well, mostly Eva \u2014 is learning that her prowess as a host, which \u201cputs Kathy Hilton to shame,\u201d is going unappreciated. The guests are requesting beer. They crave bread. They don\u2019t even think the Champagne is real. Eva scurries off to buy as many baguettes as she can to rectify the situation, giving our dear Wyatt his marquee moment: When she returns, he\u2019s on a guitar performing Oasis\u2019s \u201cWonderwall\u201d to dozens of ecstatic guests, who would rather pledge their allegiance to Britpop than eat another Dr. Seussian amuse-bouche. \u201cShe gives up, and I give the people what they want, which is a sing-along,\u201d Scott says. \u201cIt could have been \u2018Black,\u2019 by Pearl Jam, or in that grunge world, but \u2018Wonderwall\u2019 is just perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scene, which is played earnestly and runs a tad shorter in length than the Kens\u2019 Barbie serenade<\/a> to Matchbox 20, was always scripted to include Oasis\u2019s most popular song. \u201cIt made me laugh out loud when I first read it,\u201d Scott recalls. \u201cIt was just a really funny beat. Then the next thought I had was, Oh shit, I have to learn \u2018Wonderwall.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite retaining a bit of music knowledge from his well-loved That Thing You Do! role as a fictional band\u2019s drummer, all Scott was capable of doing for Elle was strumming the instrument. \u201cI\u2019m not a guitar player. I have way too much respect for real musicians to ever say that I am one,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m not the guy you want backing you up on guitar in a real situation.\u201d Elle\u2019s music supervisor hired an instructor to walk him through how to convincingly play the chords on set, which were later overdubbed by a professional guitarist. Then he had to learn how to belt it like the parka god<\/a> before him. \u201cI was singing it all the time in my apartment. My neighbors must have thought, This guy is obsessed with \u2018Wonderwall,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cOne of my best friends tried to teach me how to sing it properly. I was giving it a three-note kind of fall. And he said, \u2018No, it\u2019s two notes. It sounds better. That\u2019s what Liam does.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Got it. Noted. I\u2019m going to nail this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Put the lighters up, bruv.
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Scott had a lot of nerves on the actual filming day. There were a few tricky camera shots he had to contend with \u2014 the scene intersplices after Elle, his character\u2019s daughter, performs karaoke to No Doubt\u2019s \u201cJust a Girl\u201d \u2014 that made it more technical than he would\u2019ve liked. \u201cI wasn\u2019t feeling the flow of just playing,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt was a little bit like, \u2018Oh, oh, oh, oh.\u2019 And it\u2019s in front of however many background extras were there, so it was nerve-racking. But I got to do it a bunch of times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Name-checking Sandra H\u00fcller\u2019s pivotal Harry Styles karaoke scene<\/a> in Project Hail Mary, Scott also knows that these moments, however small they seem, can pack a lot of weight in the overall narrative. \u201cIt was then when I was like, \u2018Ah, I like my character and I know who he is,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cThis is based on a character that people sort of know from Legally Blonde but barely. The dad is in one scene and has a couple lines. It\u2019s not that you know who that character is.\u201d The \u201cWonderwall\u201d of it all gave him the licence to fully flesh out this plastic surgeon. \u201cIt showed me that he\u2019s goofy, confident, and can lead a sing-along,\u201d he adds. \u201cThat\u2019s a special kind of confidence. It endeared me to Wyatt. I\u2019d love to be the person who could do that. I\u2019m a little too shy. I think that\u2019s why I\u2019m an actor. I get to be these other people and not have to be myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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