Andrew Scott

1 sketch, 8 claims, and 9 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott (guest)

Reveres the theater and truthful acting; says he draws on his own emotional biography in every role. Was a big Pet Shop Boys fan when young. Wants to play something lighter and musical next. Admires his Irish peers (Cillian Murphy, Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan) and loved Saltburn. Is wary of work taken only for money or profile.

Stances

  • The power to say no is an actor's biggest power
  • Acting is revealing who you are, not pretending
  • All of us Strangers should be felt like a dream rather than explained
  • Art's job is to help us live a better life

Humor: Warm and self-effacing, with wry asides about success and the Irish padded-envelope audition tapes.

In their words

  • “the more I act, the more I think acting is about.” (1:25:29)
  • “it is the biggest power that you have is to be able to say no” (1:45:22)
  • “I do feel like the job of any art is to make us, to help us live a better life.” (1:49:49)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–8 of 8 claims.

  1. craft (soundtrack): All of Us Strangers → Pet Shop Boys. Scott was a huge Pet Shop Boys fan when he was young, so their heavy presence in the film delights him.
    “particularly when I was younger, a huge Pet Shop Boys fan.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:24:21 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (departure from source): All of Us Strangers → Strangers. 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)
  3. unmapped (dream logic): All of Us Strangers → All of Us Strangers. Scott says viewers should treat the film like a dream rather than hunting for plot twists, since the feeling matters more than the mechanics.
    “You don't go, well, what's the plot twist in the dream? Because you don't rely on the dream in that same way.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:33:19 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. unmapped (viewing coincidence): All of Us Strangers → Saltburn. Asked what he last watched, Scott named Saltburn, praising Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike.
    “what was the last the last thing we watched actually was Barry Kitt in um, in Saltburn.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:52:47 · Andrew Scott (0.90 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–9 of 9 fun items.

  1. fun, about All of Us Strangers: The film closes with the Power of Love lyric Make Love Your Goal, which was also the last line of the script.
    “the very last line of the script was a lyric from the, from that beautiful song, which is make love your goal.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:23:54 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about All of Us Strangers: Scott says shooting the childhood segment in Haigh's real childhood home added vulnerability.
    “Andrew, we shot them. The sort of childhood segment of the movie in Andrew Hague's childhood home, which added a real, um, I don't know, a real sort of vulnerability to it”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:25:57 · Andrew Scott (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about All of Us Strangers: Scott compares the logic of the film to a dream: you don't hunt for the plot twist after waking.
    “You don't go, well, what's the plot twist in the dream?”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:33:19 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about All of Us Strangers: Scott credits the on-set intimacy coordinator with letting him and Mescal be more adventurous, because nothing uncomfortable can end up in the film.
    “there's an intimacy coordinator now on every movie set, which is really good, and that allows you to, in some ways, be a bit more free”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:35:38 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about All of Us Strangers: The childhood-home scenes with Foy and Bell were shot first, then Scott had to say goodbye to them, making that stretch the darker one, while the Mescal scenes felt joyful.
    “I had to say goodbye to Jamie and Claire. So that was a very tough time”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:36:33 · Andrew Scott (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about All of Us Strangers: Scott's trick for playing drunk or high: people usually try to appear sober, so you play the attempt to stay sober.
    “when our people are drunk, they usually are trying not to be drunk.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:37:38 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. fun, about Saltburn: Scott's last great thing watched: Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike in Saltburn, who he finds incredibly funny.
    “I thought it was such an extraordinary performance and Rosamond Pike. My God.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:52:54 · Andrew Scott (0.95 sure it was them)