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I'm Terry Gross.

Like everyone who introduces my guest, I'll start by telling you that he's famous as the

hot priest and the award-winning comedy series Fleabag.

That priest is torn between his vow of celibacy and his love for a woman who loves him. It was a lot more than Andrew

Scott's looks that made him a stand-out. He is a magnetic and subtle actor, whether his character

is delightful or a sociopath.

Scott first became known in the US for his role in the British series Sherlock,

which starred Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes,

and Andrew Scott as his nemesis Moriarty.

A famous film you probably don't remember him in is Stephen Spielberg's World War II film

Saving Private Ryan where Scott played the role of Soldier on the Beach, one of the many soldiers on the

beach in the film who landed on the Normandy Beach on D-Day.

Scott returned to World War II with Stephen Spielberg in the series Band of Brothers.

After doing a share of suffering in World War II stories, he played a burned-out cynical

wiscracking lieutenant in the World War I film 1917.

Recently he won British and American acting awards,

including a National Society of Film Critics Award

for his role in the very quiet film All of Us Strangers about a gay man who shut down his emotions. Now he stars in a new Netflix series called Ripley, which is an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The

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