Sebastian Stan, Melanie Lynskey and more on teaching directors about acting

LOS ANGELES — If the Emmy Drama Roundtable proves anything, it's that even the stars of TV's buzziest shows are familiar with the indignities of the working stiff.

When asked, in regard to his role in "Severance," if there's a job on his resume he'd prefer to forget, Adam Scott said even his less memorable work moved him forward. But, he noted, "My first job ever, I was in the background for a Tia Carrere music video. ... It was in the fall of 1993 and it was at a coffeehouse and I had a beret and I was drinking coffee. I actually can't find it on YouTube, so I guess the world has forgotten about it."

Rhea Seehorn, starring to broad acclaim in the final season of "Better Call Saul," said, "I have many auditions I'd like to forget."

"I would forget every audition if I could," said Melanie Lynskey, who stars in Showtime's creepy survival tale "Yellowjackets."

Sebastian Stan, in the process of obliterating his Marvel superhero image with a transformative turn in "Pam & Tommy," used to submit elaborate VHS audition tapes.

"I think my first big movie job came off of a tape," he said. "And I remember I was really cool about it because I had a cigarette. You couldn't really do that in the auditions. And this particular time it worked because the producer smoked