Andrew Scott On Impractical Shoes, Paul Mescal, and Playing the “Hot Priest”
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.1 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Actor and all around dreamboat, Andrew Scott, joins Chloe and Vogue deputy editor Taylor Antrim to talk about his latest film, “All Of Us Strangers.” They discuss his style (and choice of shoe!), what his life has been like lately as he occupies so many roles on both the stage and screen, and what it is like to come into significant fame in his forties, after playing the “Hot Priest” in “Fleabag.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is the run-through. I'm Chloe Mal. And I'm Chairmanadi. Today we bring you a conversation that my colleague, Taylor Antrim and I, had with the extremely charming and so talented actor Andrew Scott. He probably, for better or worse, is best known for his role as the hot priest in Fleabag. |
| 0:24.3 | But as you will soon see from our conversation, he has been in so many other things, both on stage and screen. |
| 0:30.4 | And we just, Taylor was swooning as much as I was. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, I love him. |
| 0:36.0 | I mean, I loved Fleabag. And he was at the GQ Awards in London, GQ |
| 0:41.9 | Man of the Year awards. And Phoebe Wallerbridge gave the most glowing speech about him. And he just |
| 0:48.3 | seems like he's just a wonderful person to work with. And yeah, it was really touching moment so i'm also jealous that |
| 0:57.2 | you're able to talk to him we spoke to him when he was in new york and he was doing press for |
| 1:02.5 | his new film which just came out um in theaters all of us strangers with the gorgeous and fabulous |
| 1:09.3 | palmescal he also recently shot ripley which is a spinoff of The Talented Mr. |
| 1:15.0 | That is coming to Netflix sometime in the new year. |
| 1:18.6 | And I have to say, all of us strangers is just extremely gut-wrenching, |
| 1:22.5 | but really poignant and romantic. |
| 1:26.2 | Andrew and Paul play neighbors who become lovers. It's also a sort of peon to |
| 1:32.7 | family and loss and regret and the conversations we wish we could have had with our loved ones. |
| 1:38.2 | So it's a really, I recommend it, but ring Kleenex. |
| 1:42.7 | Yeah, I've heard it's, I've heard a few people have recommended to me, but also said bring Kleenex. Yeah, I've heard a few people have recommended it to me, but also said bring Kleenex. |
| 1:48.4 | Also, Andrew just finished a one-man version of Vanya in the West End, where he played every part, just the physical exertion that that must have taken every night. I can't even |
| 2:02.4 | imagine. But it was fun to talk to him about that as well. Yeah, I'm so sad I missed it. It was |
| 2:07.8 | closing just as I was arriving in London. Well, you can see the movie instead. So tell me, |
| 2:12.7 | what did he wear to come to see to the Vogue offices? Oh, he looked so fabulous. He kind of looked |
| 2:18.0 | Ripley-esque. He was wearing this like Casimir button down polo cardigan and white |
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