Actor, Andrew Scott, guesses lines from some of his hit movies and television shows including, 'Ripley,' 'Catherine Called Birdy,' 'Sherlock,' 'All of Us Strangers,' and 'Fleabag.'
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00:00 What color is your hair when it's clean?
00:02 *laughs*
00:02 And that's a father saying that to his daughter.
00:04 *imitates father*
00:06 *imitates daughter*
00:08 Well, I'm a whore for the ceviche.
00:10 *music*
00:14 Okay, fuck you calling me father like it doesn't turn you on just to say it.
00:18 Ah, that's um...
00:20 Fleabag.
00:22 *ding*
00:23 That's the pretty stuff, Fleabag.
00:24 *laughs*
00:25 You okay, father?
00:27 Well, fuck you calling me father like it doesn't turn you on just to say it.
00:31 I'm here at the moment in Los Angeles and I met Phoebe the other night for a drink
00:35 and we were walking, we always walk around,
00:37 *laughs*
00:38 to this place that we go nearby.
00:40 Somebody had reversed their car and said,
00:43 "Oh my god, we got, we watched Fleabag when we were during, I think it was during COVID or something."
00:48 And that's how they got to know each other and then they were there and there,
00:51 they were married and they stopped and they were like,
00:53 it becomes part of people's, people's lives, you know.
00:56 And they reversed their car on like Sunset Boulevard to come and tell us.
00:59 It was so lovely and then it happened again the other night.
01:01 Somebody came up and just said something lovely and I mean,
01:03 that's completely, completely wonderful.
01:06 Okay.
01:07 "What color is your hair when it's clean?"
01:11 What a great line.
01:13 That's Selena Dunham,
01:15 who I adore.
01:17 And that's in Cap'n Culperdy.
01:19 *ding*
01:20 And that's to Bella Ramsey.
01:21 "What color is your hair when it's clean?"
01:23 *laughs*
01:24 And that's a father saying that to his daughter.
01:26 "What color is your hair when it's clean?"
01:28 Lena conducts the most fun, wonderful set.
01:32 I loved that whole experience.
01:34 She allows you to improvise but she's also incredibly literary as a person.
01:39 She loves words and the way she constructs a sentence is absolutely amazing.
01:43 And her sets are really fun, glorious places to be.
01:47 I really, really admire her.
01:49 I'm so glad that we got to work together.
01:51 The thing that I really believe, and maybe that is an Irish thing because
01:53 there's such a literary tradition in Ireland, but
01:55 the way people construct sentences is really always a source of total delight for me.
02:00 In the hotel last night where I was staying in LA,
02:03 the waiter, someone was like, "Sorry, can you make a recommendation?"
02:07 And the waiter said, "Well, I'm a whore for the ceviche."
02:09 *laughs*
02:10 The waiter said it!
02:11 And I loved him so much.
02:14 He was like, "Oh, I'm a whore for the ceviche, but I don't know, do you like ceviche?"
02:17 And then I thought, "That's brilliant.
02:20 So brilliant."
02:23 "How predictably moronic, but then isn't that what M stands for? Moron."
02:28 Oh, I do know what this is from. This is from Spectre.
02:30 How predictably moronic, but then isn't that what M stands for?
02:37 I had an office, a big sort of scary office on the set.
02:42 And I opened up a drawer and I had my own headed notepaper.
02:48 And I was like, "This is so cool. The budget on this must be huge."
02:51 Like, nobody asked, it wasn't required in the scene.
02:54 It was just like, they had it there just in case anybody wanted it.
02:58 I mean, that was probably more the budget on most of the films that I did in the early 2000s.
03:02 So it was cool.
03:03 "In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king.
03:10 And honey, you see me in a crown."
03:12 Ah, that's Sherlock.
03:14 Yeah. And I played him in Royalty.
03:16 Another villain.
03:17 "In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king.
03:22 And honey, you should see me in a crown."
03:26 I have to say, I missed me at the end of an episode once.
03:30 And that's what people say.
03:32 And sometimes I say it on the street and I'm like, "I didn't even know you.
03:34 I didn't even know you'd gone. I don't miss you."
03:38 And they're like, "Oh, yeah."
03:40 I loved, loved, loved working with Benedict on that.
03:43 And, you know, the first series of that show went down so well.
03:47 I only had a little bit to do in the first series.
03:49 So I was so excited to focus on Moriarty in one of the episodes particularly.
03:54 Because people loved the show almost immediately.
03:56 And that line is an amazing line for an actor to say.
04:00 Yeah. Okay.
04:02 "I'm in Wales and I don't have to pretend to be something that I'm not."
04:07 Well, that is Pride.
04:10 Gaffan.
04:12 "I'm in Wales and I don't have to pretend to be something that I'm not."
04:17 I think because I played some of those kind of extreme villainous characters,
04:20 I was really dying to play a sort of more low-key character.
04:23 And it's such a wonderful film for anyone who hasn't seen it.
04:26 I always recommend Pride because I think it's just a beautiful film about
04:29 how we're just much more similar to each other than we think we are.
04:32 And what was brilliant about that character, the character,
04:35 was that he was one of, I think, 15 gay characters who were the lead characters.
04:39 And so it means you weren't just playing like a token gay
04:41 because everybody was completely distinct from each other,
04:43 even though they all had sort of relatively similar sexualities.
04:46 He just shows that there's as much diversity within a sexuality as there is.
04:52 And for straight people too.
04:54 "I kind of get used to calling myself queer. It was always such an insult."
05:00 Aw, that is All of Us Strangers.
05:03 "I kind of get used to calling myself queer. It was always such an insult."
05:07 So much of it was personal, even though it was very different to me.
05:10 I suppose it explored the idea of losing your parents,
05:14 which at the time I hadn't. I lost my mother since.
05:18 But I think that's the power of the sort of empathetic nature of art
05:24 that it allows us to explore things that otherwise we might be too frightened to explore.
05:31 That film has helped me in a way because since the film ended,
05:35 I feel like there's stuff in it that I feel like I was able to exercise in some way.
05:39 You know.
05:41 Oh, fuck, I know I went horribly, horribly wrong.
05:43 "And every little monster agreed he was the best show-and-tell surprise ever."
05:47 This is The School of Roars.
05:54 I love that you put this in.
05:58 "And every little monster agreed he was the best show-and-tell surprise ever."
06:05 The School of Roars, people, is a children's animated series
06:11 in which I play the narrator.
06:15 And I also play one of the teachers who's called Mr. Marrow.
06:19 I think he's called... He's a dinosaur. He's a teacher.
06:21 And they're all little dinosaurs who go to school, and it's called The School of Roars.
06:24 I mean, that just makes me want to eat my own fist. It's so cute.
06:28 And it's absolutely exhausting to do it.
06:32 Yeah, because you have to be really, really... Because it's for four-year-olds.
06:35 And so if you're speaking like this, the four-year-old's like, "Who's that scary man?"
06:40 So you have to be...
06:42 And at the end, you're so tired.
06:47 And when you're doing it in a booth, there's no air.
06:49 So you're like...
06:51 Oh, and then you also have to roar.
06:53 That's the other thing.
06:55 Because you're playing a dinosaur.
06:57 The things that are exhausting... It's not playing Hamlet.
07:00 It's this motherfucking thing.
07:02 Don't say that, but, you know...
07:04 Yeah, The School of Roars. Love it.
07:06 Yeah, that's right. Dickey Greenleaf. It's nice to meet you, too.
07:12 That's from Ripley.
07:14 That's when Tom Ripley is pretending to be Dickey Greenleaf in the mirror.
07:20 Yeah, that's right. Dickey.
07:22 Dickey Greenleaf.
07:24 It's nice to meet you, too.
07:28 He's a really solitary figure.
07:30 And to be able to just work out what's going on inside his head
07:35 and whether he's capable of love or whether he isn't...
07:39 I kind of believe that all human beings are in need of love in some way.
07:43 But it was quite difficult in that sense to access that within him
07:46 because he was so solitary.
07:48 So, yeah, that's why I think he continues to fascinate people, Tom Ripley.
07:52 OK, "You will burn for what you do here."
07:54 This isn't science. This is the work of Satan.
07:57 Satan himself.
07:59 Is this Victor Frankenstein?
08:03 Boom, boom, boom.
08:06 You will burn for what you do here.
08:09 This isn't science.
08:11 This is the work of Satan himself.
08:13 I played somebody with a glass eye. I remember that.
08:17 Dan Radcliffe. What a lovely, lovely person.
08:20 And he's done such interesting things with his career.
08:22 He's on stage now.
08:24 I'm delighted to be in that, even though I...
08:27 I haven't seen it.
08:29 I haven't seen it. I've never seen it.
08:32 I've never seen it.
08:34 Are they out of their fucking minds?
08:36 One slow night, the brass think the hun have just gone home.
08:39 That is 1917.
08:42 Are they out of their fucking minds?
08:44 One slow night, the brass think the hun have just gone home.
08:47 Oh, he's so great to work with.
08:49 He's really, really talented.
08:51 He's very extraordinarily gifted at...
08:55 He's so observant.
08:57 He's able to remember extraordinary things about blocking.
09:02 He understands acting, which not all directors do.
09:06 And he's got a real visual thing.
09:09 He's sort of very soft-natured, and he's fun.
09:12 You've always been against going to America.
09:18 Korea? Is it?
09:21 That's my first film.
09:23 You've always been against going to America.
09:26 It's a little tiny little Irish film called Korea.
09:29 About this boy who has been conscripted to go to fight in the Korean War
09:34 in Cavern, in the middle of Ireland.
09:37 I was 17, first ever job, first ever film.
09:41 It was lovely, and there was an actor in it
09:44 who played my father, called Donald Donnelly.
09:47 He was an enormous influence on me.
09:50 He was very well-known, but he was incredibly kind to everybody on the set.
09:54 You learn how to be by looking at your elders.
10:00 He was just lovely to everybody.
10:03 I remember very clearly on a Saturday afternoon
10:06 watching old MGM movies, those big things
10:09 where there's lots of people doing synchronised swimming.
10:12 Lots of people doing synchronised swimming in a big pool.
10:15 You know what I mean?
10:17 Like old-school choreography, or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
10:22 There was something about that that I just absolutely adored.
10:25 I knew immediately, I knew.
10:28 I remember when I was about 7 saying that's something that I wanted to do.
10:33 Which is weird when I think about it.
10:35 I was very shy, and so that helped me come out of my shell.
10:40 I was very nurtured by my mum,
10:43 and that's how she pushed me in the right direction.
10:46 That's what I remember.
10:49 Inspiring me.
10:52 Yeah.
10:53 [music]