Were there things that you specifically were interested in exploring about the place religion has in contemporary life?
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I just signed on to working with Phoebe because I obviously loved the first series and loved Phoebe herself, so I was very delighted, actually, when I got the script eventually. We walked around London and talked about all those things and caught up, but I didn’t actually get a script. We were kind of looking to try and create something where there could be a match for the character in Fleabag, and we knew it was going to be a sort of a flawed character and somebody who is good at his job and, like, a real proper human being. We talked a lot about love and loss and how it’s represented onscreen, as well as religion and what place religion takes in people of our generation’s lives. So we met up last summer, and she was talking about this character that she had in her head, of a priest, and how they want to sort of establish this sort of extraordinary relationship. We did a play together about ten years ago. How did Phoebe Waller-Bridge first pitch you on the role? I think the dog collar probably does something to people that’s more privy to that than to me. I think it’s more about the character itself. The reaction to the priest has been unbelievable. Well, it’s better than a lot of things you could be accused of.
It seems like everyone just calls your character “hot priest,” even in the press. Vulture caught up with him over the phone to discuss the priest’s best outfits, gin and tonics in a can, and the twisted relationship between Catholicism and sexuality. Though he’s done plenty of stage work in the U.K., and is currently in rehearsals for a production of Present Laughter, Scott is best known to American audiences as Sherlock’s scheming rival Moriarty in Sherlock, so he’s pretty glad to play something of a romantic lead in this show. (Also, as Scott points out, that priest is pretty hot, too.) So, she wrote him the part of a nameless priest - or as the press coverage calls him, “sexy priest” or “hot priest.” He’s the object of the titular Fleabag’s overwhelming sexual obsession, despite and because of the fact that his Catholic faith prevents him from sleeping with her. This interview contains spoilers for the second season of Fleabag.Īndrew Scott signed up to appear in the second season of Fleabag without a script, though wouldn’t you, considering the promise of the show’s first season? He’d had a few conversations with its star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, with whom he’d appeared in a play years before, and was interested in her ideas about tackling religion in the show’s second season.
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