Scoot McNairy tells us, “The film business makes you feel like you’re swimming upstream a lot of the time, but that is what makes it exciting- you just don’t know what you’re getting yourself into when you sign on to something until you get there…” and having spent most of his childhood in a creek, for him, it’s a playground. McNairy’s philosophy is to try everything and in terms of acting, he practices what he preaches. Recently he played Mr. Primm in the musical comedy Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, Mr. Larson in the mystery thriller Luckiest Girl Alive, and will soon portray Steve Abbott in Sophia Coppola’s Fairyland, based on Alysia Abbott’s autobiography of the same name. While he relishes any position that allows him to tell a story, McNairy’s dream is to direct as he tells us, “The director is the grand master of the show.” Other than swimming upstream, McNairy wants to try his hand at controlling that stream in its ebbs and flows, velocity, and depth towards a vision that is uniquely his own. In our interview, he humorously tells us about his kids’ reaction to seeing him on screen for the first time, how he achieves an honest character portrayal, and why we need a Luckiest Girl Alive film prequel!