'Andrew Scott cut a dapper figure as he attend the National Theatre Live screening of his play Vanya at The May Fair Hotel in London on Tuesday.
The actor, 47, wore a long brown coat with large lapels over a white vest top.
He wore a pair of trousers to match the coat and opted for a pair of smart black shoes.
The star was seen posing with designer and co-creator Rosanna Vize who wore a black leather jacket and trousers in the same colour for the occasion.
He was also seen smiling as he posed alongside director and co-creator Sam Yates who wore a black jacket and matching suit trousers.
He completed his look by wearing a white polo shirt which he wore buttoned up at the collar.
Performing in the play, Andrew brings to life multiple characters in adapter and co-creators Simon Stephens' radical new version of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
Comedic and tragic, Anton’s examination of people's shared humanity - hopes, dreams, regrets - is thrust into sharp focus in the production.
This play explores the 'kaleidoscope of human emotions, harnessing the power of the intimate bond between actor and audience to delve deeper into the human psyche'.
It comes after Andrew said being an openly gay man in the modern age is a 'wonderful gift' that has helped him establish firm friendships within the queer community.
He told Attitude: 'I think it's such a wonderful thing to me. It's an extraordinary gift to my life and just to be able to see the real beauty in being gay is completely wonderful.
'The older I get, just the more I feel so lucky to have been born gay and that pervades my life in the sense of all my friendships.
'I have so many amazing queer friends in my life now that I just adore.'
He added: 'I feel such a huge sense of camaraderie with other queer people now, and without sounding too hippy about it, I feel like I just want to spread that love and positivity in our community because we've come such a long way and it's important that we are kind and look out for each other, and celebrate how uniquely different and how f**king wonderful that can be.'
Meanwhile, Andrew and Paul Mescal dmitted they weren't too keen on their family members watching their new film All Of Us Strangers.
The movie stars Andrew as a screenwriter who enters into a relationship with a mysterious neighbour, played by Paul, 27.
It features several intimate scenes between the actors which the pair discussed during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
Asked if their families had seen the flick, Paul said: 'With the Irish premiere, trying to allocate tickets to all the aunties and uncles is a tricky business.
'They have seen my bum before but there is a little more going on in this movie I would say!'
Andrew added: 'I don't want to be there when my parents watch it!'
All Of Us Strangers dominated the competition at the British Independent Film Awards, earning a staggering seven gongs in total.
Among the awards was the top prize for Best Film, beating Femme, How To Have Sex, Rye Lane and Scrapper.
All Of Us Strangers also scored Best Director and Best Screenplay for Andrew Haigh, who is known for his work on films Weekend and 45 Years.
Paul shared the Best Supporting Performance gong for his role in the film with Shaun Thomas from How To Have Sex.'
[Triple] Olivier Award winning actor Andrew Scott talks to Graham Norton ahead of head back to London's glittering West End to star in a new adaption of Vanya🎭
Tom Hiddleston, Jenna Coleman, Sheila Atim and David Tennant are among the stars celebrating London’s stage talent at the 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards on Sunday.
They will be at the event at Claridge’s joining Tuppence Middleton, Omari Douglas, Layton Williams, Hayley Atwell, Jake Shears and his Cabaret co-star Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, among others, to hand out awards.
The event, hosted by the newspaper’s proprietor Lord Lebedev with the help of Ian McKellen, is presented by Susan Wokoma. The writer and actor, who played Edith in the Enola Holmes films and whose stage work includes appearances at the Bush, the National and the Royal Court, is about to start work on Three Weeks which she will direct and star in.
She said: “Theatre is always a labour of love and London stages have faced their fair share of difficulties in the last few years. So I think it’s paramount we celebrate excellence while we can.”
Among the awards presented on the night are best play, best actor and the Milton Shulman Award for best director which is named after the Standard’s late theatre critic. Other awards include the Natasha Richardson Award for best actress in association with Mithridate and the Charles Wintour Award for most promising playwright — named in honour of the paper’s editor for many years.
Also awarded on the night is the Lebedev Award, which is given to an individual or institution for lifetime achievement or a specific critically-acclaimed piece of work or series as well as two special Editor’s Awards.
Among those in the running are Paul Mescal, shortlisted for best actor for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire, with his co-stars Anjana Vasan and Patsy Ferran up for best actress. Mescal is up against Andrew Scott, who won in 2019 and is shortlisted for Vanya, as well as Paapa Essiedu for The Effect, and Mark Gatiss for The Motive and the Cue. The shortlist for best actress is completed by Rachael Stirling for Private Lives and Sophie Okonedo for Medea.
Also in the running is Nicole Scherzinger for Sunset Boulevard. She is nominated for best musical performance along with Charlie Stemp in Crazy For You, Kyle Ramar Freeman in A Strange Loop and Marisha Wallace in Guys & Dolls.
James Graham’s Dear England is shortlisted for best play alongside Jack Thorne’s The Motive and the Cue, Sam Holcroft’s A Mirror and Ryan Calais Cameron’s Retrogade.
Previous winners at the awards, which were first presented in 1955, include Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Laurence Olivier, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gillian Anderson and Glenn Close.
It´s more of a questionnaire than interview and it´s under the cut :-)
Penelope Wilton: ‘I was dyslexic. People thought I was stupid’
The actress on flower power, the Beatles and her star turn in Downton Abbey
First film I saw at the cinema
My mother used the cinema as her nanny. She had an arrangement with the usherette where she would go shopping and leave my sister and me at the cinema. When she had finished shopping she would come down the aisle and wave a white hanky — that was our sign to leave. Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot was the first film I remember seeing. Jacques Tati was such a great clown.
First time I cried at the cinema
I don’t tend to cry over films. Usually I cry in front of paintings or at concerts. I did, however, sob through the film Brief Encounter. It’s so terribly touching. I still get a lump in my throat every time I watch it.
First time I performed on a stage
My first job was at 20, as Tammy the tightrope walker in a Christmas show at the Nottingham Playhouse. Theatre is always anxious-making and it gets worse when you’re older. There have been some funny things happening while I’ve been on stage, though. One audience member heckled Ralph Richardson and me over bad language during the play West of Suez when we performed in Brighton. Another acclaimed actor, who will remain nameless, was embarrassingly drunk on the stage once, forcing me to say his lines and mine. It was madness.
First TV show I watched
We didn’t have a television for a long time while I was a child. I think we had one for the coronation but then it seemed to go. It wasn’t until I was a bit older that I became aware of television, and even now I don’t seem to have much time to watch things, mainly because I’m busy acting in plays and TV shows like Downton Abbey, which was a wonderful experience. It was a surprise to us all, including the writer Julian Fellowes, that it was so successful here and everywhere. It was particularly lovely to work with Maggie Smith because she was one of the actors I had always admired. I would be very keen to come back to the show if it were to return. I can hardly leave it now.
First book I loved
I was dyslexic as a child, at a time when dyslexia wasn’t diagnosed. You didn’t get much help — people just thought you were stupid. My dyslexia seems to have got better with age, but when I was younger I was read to by my mother and my older sister rather than reading myself. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame was a favourite.
First album I bought
Please Please Me by the Beatles. Growing up I listened to romantic music like Dionne Warwick on the radiogram in our sitting room. Nowadays I listen to more classical music, but I still have a soft spot for the Beatles. Sadly I lost that LP when we moved houses.
First concert I attended
The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky at the Royal Albert Hall when I was about ten. They had real cannons that went off. I only started going to concerts when I was older. My late husband, the [Roads to Freedom] actor Daniel Massey, was a great classical music fan. He taught me a lot about music, in particular jazz and Erroll Garner.
First pop-inspired fashion trends I adopted
Hotpants and thigh-length boots in bright pink suede. Once you went to drama school, you didn’t have any money and could do what you wanted looks-wise. It was all flower power then, so we would walk around with no shoes on, throwing flowers at each other. It was alternative but lovely.
First actor I admired
Michael Redgrave. I saw him give the most tremendous performance in Uncle Vanya at Chichester in 1963 when I was 17. Laurence Olivier was the Doctor. Together they were funny and heartbreaking. Redgrave was a wonderful actor and, more importantly, a wonderful man.
First moment I realised I wanted to be an actress
I went to a pantomime once and there was a whoosh and the curtain went up. There was this bright light and warm air came out. I thought, “I don’t know why I’m sitting in the dark here. I’d like to be up there.”
First famous person I met
Jonathan Miller when he came to Nottingham Playhouse to direct King Lear. I was a bit starstruck then, but meeting the royal family is the only time I get truly anxious.
First moment I realised I’d made it
Even at my age I don’t think I have. If you started, you wouldn’t be very good. So I will continue to try.
^^this is actually also pretty much an exhaustive list of any tv show i've watched aside from like, the twin peaks pilot, a little bit of atla & miraculous from my sister, some star wars stuff, and a couple episodes of the office lol
*not trying to deadname him, but i kind of pretend seasons 2&3 don't exist so he's still closeted and/or isn't trans, also vanya is technically a male/masculine name on its own
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Tom Hiddleston, Jenna Coleman, Sheila Atim and David Tennant are among the stars celebrating London’s stage talent at the 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards on Sunday.
They will be at the event at Claridge’s joining Tuppence Middleton, Omari Douglas, Layton Williams, Hayley Atwell, Jake Shears and his Cabaret co-star Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, among others, to hand out awards.
The event, hosted by the newspaper’s proprietor Lord Lebedev with the help of Ian McKellen, is presented by Susan Wokoma. The writer and actor, who played Edith in the Enola Holmes films and whose stage work includes appearances at the Bush, the National and the Royal Court, is about to start work on Three Weeks which she will direct and star in.
She said: “Theatre is always a labour of love and London stages have faced their fair share of difficulties in the last few years. So I think it’s paramount we celebrate excellence while we can.”
Among the awards presented on the night are best play, best actor and the Milton Shulman Award for best director which is named after the Standard’s late theatre critic. Other awards include the Natasha Richardson Award for best actress in association with Mithridate and the Charles Wintour Award for most promising playwright — named in honour of the paper’s editor for many years.
Also awarded on the night is the Lebedev Award, which is given to an individual or institution for lifetime achievement or a specific critically-acclaimed piece of work or series as well as two special Editor’s Awards.
Among those in the running are Paul Mescal, shortlisted for best actor for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire, with his co-stars Anjana Vasan and Patsy Ferran up for best actress. Mescal is up against Andrew Scott, who won in 2019 and is shortlisted for Vanya, as well as Paapa Essiedu for The Effect, and Mark Gatiss for The Motive and the Cue. The shortlist for best actress is completed by Rachael Stirling for Private Lives and Sophie Okonedo for Medea.
Also in the running is Nicole Scherzinger for Sunset Boulevard. She is nominated for best musical performance along with Charlie Stemp in Crazy For You, Kyle Ramar Freeman in A Strange Loop and Marisha Wallace in Guys & Dolls.
James Graham’s Dear England is shortlisted for best play alongside Jack Thorne’s The Motive and the Cue, Sam Holcroft’s A Mirror and Ryan Calais Cameron’s Retrogade.
Previous winners at the awards, which were first presented in 1955, include Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Laurence Olivier, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gillian Anderson and Glenn Close.
statistical character personality test. take the linked quiz from the perspective of your character, then select 5 - 10 results from the complete matches list that you feel resonate with your character the most.
1 - Charlie Kelmeckis (The Perks of Being a Wallflower): 86%
2 - Jonathan Byers (Stranger Things): 86%
3 - Vanya Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy): 84%
4 - Will Graham (Hannibal): 84%
Joel Barish (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind): 84%
5 - Christian (Moulin Rouge!): 83%
Frodo Baggins (Lord of the Rings): 82%
6 - Billy Costigan (The Departed): 81%
Dobby (Harry Potter): 80%
Kenny McCormick (South Park): 80%
7 - Margo Dunne (Gone Girl): 80%
Tom Hansen ((500) Days of Summer): 80%
8 - Billy Bibbit (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest): 78%
Harvey Kinkle (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina): 78%
The Scarecrow (The Wizard of Oz): 77%
9 - Brooks Hatlen (The Shawshank Redemption): 77%
Seong Gi-hun (Squid Game): 77%
Petrie (The Land Before Time): 77%
Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer): 76%
Charlie Bucket (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory): 76%
Jonas Kahnwald (Dark): 76%
10 - Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith Jr. (8 Mile): 76%
The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water): 76%
Amélie Poulain (Amélie): 76%
Bella Swan (Twilight): 75%
Allison Reynolds (The Breakfast Club): 75%
'By his own admission, awards season has been bittersweet for Andrew Scott.
Currently basking in a flurry of positive reviews for his starring role in a new Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, Scott recently collected the Critics’ Circle Theatre award for his remarkable performance in a contemporary rendering of Chekhov masterpiece Vanya.
But the occasion was tinged with sadness for the Irish star, 47, whose devoted mother Nora passed away with a 'sudden illness' in March - shortly before Mother's Day.
And Scott - who dedicated the award to her memory by telling audience members “she was the source of practically every joyful thing in my life” - admits he felt compelled to immerse himself in work following her recent passing.
'Well, you know, you have to — life goes on, you manage it day by day,' he told the Sunday Times.
'It’s very recent, but I certainly can say that so much of it is surprising and unique, and there is so much that I will be able to speak about at some point.'
A devoted follower of fashion away from screen and stage, Scott admits his love of clothes came from his mother and her passion for the arts.
'My mother was an art teacher, she was obsessed with all sorts of design,' he recalled. 'She loved jewellery and jewellery design.
'Anything that is visual, tactile, painting, drawing, is a big passion of mine, so I have tremendous respect for the creativity of designers.'
Despite the tragedy, Scott has attempted to maintain a positive attitude towards both his personal and professional life.
'I feel like, as a person, I am quite near my emotions,' he said. 'I cry easily and I laugh easily, and there is nothing more pleasurable to me than laughing.'
Nora's death was confirmed in a statement on March 9, with family members adding that she passed away on Thursday March 7 surrounded by her family at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.
An obituary read: 'It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the passing of Nora Scott (née Boyle), beloved wife of Jim, mother of Sarah, Andrew and Hannah.
'Scott, Sandymount, Dublin, formerly Omagh Co. Tyrone, March 7th 2024 peacefully surrounded by her loving family and best friend Anne, in St Vincent's Hospital following a sudden illness.
'Nora will be deeply missed by her beloved husband Jim, her loving children Sarah, Andrew and Hannah.'
In 2018, Nora revealed Anthony Hopkins sent her 'more than three dozen red roses,' after finding out she was ill when speaking to Scott on the set of King Lear.
Hopkins, 86, starred in the BBC's Shakespeare adaptation as an ‘English Stalin’ with Scott playing Edgar - who becomes Lear’s secret protector.
She told RTE’s Ryan Tubridy at the time: 'There was probably more than three dozen red roses and attached to them was a little card from Anthony saying "Be well, sending hugs", and all sorts of things.'
'I was thrilled to get such a gift and for the kind thought that promoted it.
'Now I have recovered, I can enjoy these exquisite roses that grace our hall. It was such a beautiful gift.'
In January, Scott and his co-star Paul Mescal admitted they weren't too keen on their family members watching their new film, gay drama All Of Us Strangers.
The movie stars Scott as a screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home who enters into a relationship with a mysterious neighbour, played by Mescal, 27.
The film features several intimate scenes between the actors which the pair discussed during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
Asked if their families had seen the flick yet, Mescal said: 'With the Irish premiere, trying to allocate tickets to all the aunties and uncles is a tricky business.
'They have seen my bum before but there is a little more going on in this movie I would say!'
Scott added: 'I don't want to be there when my parents watch it!''
A 10 minute interview about Vanya. There are a couple sentences at the end about his upcoming film (Strangers) and tv (Ripley) projects. Just Graham saying they’re happening later this year. Due to the actors strike Andrew can’t/won’t talk about them.