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Andrew Scott rejects 'openly gay' label
TV star Andrew Scott has said entity referred to as "openly gay", "implies a defiance I don't feel."
The Irish actor, best known for his roles in Sherlock and as "the scorching priest", in Fleabag, believes the term does not reflect who he is.
"You're never described as openly gay at a party," he told British GQ Magazine.
"'This is my openly gay friend Darren'... [or] 'She's openly Irish'," he added.
Scott played the forbidden love of interest of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's title ethics in series two of Fleabag and said his sexuality made no difference to his ability to play the role.
"Sexuality isn't something you can cultivate, particularly," added Scott, who first found global fame starring as crime lord Jim Moriarty, opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock.
"It isn't a talent. You think the relationship, that's my job."
Analysis by Ben Hunte, LGBT Correspondent
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Andrew Scott says he was encouraged to keep his sexuality private as an actor
Andrew Scott has said that he was encouraged by people in the film and TV industry to keep his sexuality to himself.
The Sherlock thespian, 47, who stars in new film All Of Us Strangers alongside fellow Irish actor Paul Mescal, told a newspaper during an interview in 2013 that he did not want to make a big deal about existence gay, but that he did not want to hide it either.
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Speaking to British GQ ahead of the publication’s Men of the Year event next week, Scott said: “I was encouraged, by people in the industry who I really admired and who had my foremost interests at heart, to keep that (to myself).
“I understand why they gave that advice, but I’m also glad that I eventually ignored it.”
Scott grew up in Ireland where homosexuality was illegal until he turned 16, making him “fearful” of his sexuality and wanting to ignore that side of himself.
He told British GQ: “What’s difficult sometimes for gay people is that you don’t get to experience this sort of adolescence where you proceed, ‘Oh, my God, I like that person, perform they
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal on toxic masculinity: 'The most macho man will be the first to break'
Andrew Scott says men are going through a "crisis" right now, struggling to find "what it means to be a man" in today's society.
The Irish actor - who became a household identify thanks to his role as 'hot' priest in Fleabag - tells Sky News: "There's a sort of crisis in masculinity I think at the moment and what it means to be a man.
"We have all these things within us, there's no one way of being, there just isn't, and sometimes the people who are the most outwardly macho in some ways, are the people who aren't going to be there for you emotionally.
His co-star, fellow Irishman Paul Mescal, whose breakout role in hit drama Normal People has made him one of the most in demand actors right now, adds, "and they'll be the first to break".
Scott nods: "When you are able to accept all those parts of you, I reflect that leads to improve mental health and just a sense of stability."
The 47-year-old plays screenwriter Adam in All Of Us Strangers - a fantasy romance merging the themes of grief, loss, individuality and isolation.
Despite being overlooked in the Oscars nominations, the
Andrew Scott on Becoming ‘Ripley,’ His Taylor Swift Friendship and Why He’s Exhausted of Being Called an ‘Openly Gay’ Actor
It’s one of those odd April days in Los Angeles, the type that locals know well: Hours after noon, the heat still seems ambivalent about whether it wants to make itself known. An outsider wouldn’t think it possible for the gleaming capital of show business to feel so grayed out. But if you grew up on an island where colorless skies are the norm, it might feel familiar.
“It’s like, Will I? Won’t I?” the Irish actor Andrew Scott quips as he settles into his chair on the rooftop of the Edition Hotel in West Hollywood. He’s been in town promoting his Netflix series “Ripley,” which launched a few weeks ago, and the foreboding weather seems apt. On that limited series, the Italian vistas seem as unsettled as its antihero’s soul. The show’s vibe is “almost like L.A., what we’re looking at here now,” Scott says, as I begin to regret not bringing a jacket to our alfresco lunch. “It’s cloudy. I come from a place where the sky is normally l
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