Andrew Scott

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q507322: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to All of Us Strangers, which Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Sherlock (2010); Fleabag (2016); All of Us Strangers (2023); Ripley (2024).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Strangers: 2 lines

  1. lineage (departure from source) · through All of Us Strangers (2023), which they acted in: Strangers ⇒ All of Us Strangers (the maker said so: Andrew Scott interview on the episode). Scott deliberately did not read the source, saying the film is similar in tone but departs a lot from the original story.
    “It's similar in tone, but it's very, very, um, it departs a lot from the original story.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:25:03 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation) · through All of Us Strangers (2023), which they acted in: Strangers ⇒ All of Us Strangers (the host's read). The film adapts a Japanese story by Taichi Yamada, described as a ghost story queer romance.
    “He's adapted a Japanese story called Strangers by Taiichi Yamada.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:03:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Andrew Haigh: 1 line

  1. unmapped (autobiographical) · through All of Us Strangers (2023), which they acted in: Andrew Haigh ⇒ All of Us Strangers (the host's read). The film is filmed in Haigh's childhood home and blends his own romantic experiences with those of his partner's parents.
    “The movie is literally filmed in Andrew Hayes' childhood home.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:11:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (6) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career timing): Andrew Scott → Ripley. Scott had been filming Ripley for nearly a year when the All of Us Strangers script arrived.
    “I just played Tom Ripley in a, um, an adaptation of the, the Patricia I Smith novel for, I've been filming it for nearly a year”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:39:05 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (persona contrast): Andrew Scott → Fleabag. Scott is known for slick, verbally dexterous, elusive characters like the Hot Priest and Moriarty, which makes his quiet turn here a recontextualization.
    “very verbally dexterous, you know, hot priest in Moriarty.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:21:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (prior collaboration): Andrew Scott → Paul Mescal. They had done a Comic Relief comedy sketch together in London before the film.
    “We did a kind of comedy sketch together for comic relief in London.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:34:15 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (supporting-role philosophy): Andrew Scott → Sherlock. On Sherlock as Moriarty he learned that supporting characters should still have a beginning, middle, and end.
    “supporting characters are wonderful in that sense. You sort of go, They should have a beginning, middle, and end as well.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:39:41 · Andrew Scott (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (Irish peers): Andrew Scott → Cillian Murphy. Scott celebrates fellow Irish actors Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer, Paul Mescal, Ruth Negga, Barry Keoghan, and Colin Farrell.
    “Killian in Oppenheimer, you know, it just so, it just, it gives me so much joy to see that being celebrated”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:52:00 · Andrew Scott (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Andrew Scott: Scott would love to be in a musical, and thinks a musical is harder to do well in cinema than in theater.
    “I'd love to be in a musical.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:48:07 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Andrew Scott: On why so many Irish actors are stars now: tape auditions replaced mailing padded envelopes to Los Angeles, and storytelling and emigration are part of Irish culture.
    “you'd have to literally put uh, tape in a, padded envelope and send it off to Los Angeles.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:50:15 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)