“Wake Up Dead Man” Star Andrew Scott

Air Date: Wednesday, December 10^th 

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Andrew Scott on His Speech Impediment When He Was Young & Doing Commercials as a Child Actor 

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Drew: You and I were actually rocking a very similar life. You were doing kids' commercials too.

Andrew: Yeah, I did commercials. I started doing kind of commercials when I was a kid. I had a really bad speech impediment when I was small. I had a sort of a quite a, quite a strong sort of lisp.

Drew: Well it never held me back.

Andrew: Well, did they ever try and, do they ever try and make you do anything?

Drew: You know what's so funny, no, they didn't. Clearly they didn't.

Andrew: No, because it's beautiful. I had to do these things. I had to do these things where they made me go seashells, seashells on the seashore. I find it so hard to, to rearrange my anyway, they knocked it all that, but I did used to do commercials and stuff like that when I was I was a kid.

Andrew on Working with Phoebe Waller-Bridge & His Hot Priest Nickname

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Drew: By the way, I don't know her, and I don't think there's a woman I idolize on the planet more than Phoebe Waller-Bridge. I can't like I freak out. If she was here, I'd run out of the room.

Andrew: She's an incredible person. She really is. She's like, she really is.

Drew: May I ask what, because you, you both put something out into this world in ‘Fleabag’ that, and it was every award that could have ever been won for it was rightfully won for it. I mean, and then you become known literally, your nickname on the planet becomes hot priest.

Andrew: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that wasn't in the, that wasn't in the script.

Drew: No, I know that's what everybody named you.

Andrew: No, no, I don't mean that it was just, it was just, oh my God, look at that. But yeah, it was just a priest.

Drew: I mean you were, yeah.

Andrew: But that's the fantasy, that's got, that's more to do with the trope, that's nothing to do with me, that's to do with the, the priest and the thing, and we had, you know, we had great chemistry.

Andrew on Filming “Wake Up Dead Man” Six Weeks After His Mother Passed and the Support He Got From the Cast

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Andrew: To be honest, about 6 weeks before we started filming, my mum died, who was my best friend and my hero.

Drew: I am so sorry.

Andrew: Oh yeah, yes, it's rough, it was rough. It's rough. It's still rough actually, particularly around this, this time of year, you know, for I'm sure people are all going, it's rough. It's definitely rough. But about 6 weeks before mum, she died really, really suddenly, you know, within 24 hours, and she was completely fine, and, you know, she was the total center of our family. And I didn't know whether I was going to do the movie, frankly, because I thought, God, I just don't, I don't know if I'll be strong enough, but I anyway I made the decision to do it and the guys, the guys in the cast were so kind to me and once people know what you're going through, then, you know, that's half the battle, you know, you don't have to, you don't have to hide it, but grief is such a strange thing. I, we used to be in that, in a green room, a little bit like this and we'd have sofas like a little and everybody would be talking, and I would just fall asleep. It was such a strange, it's just a strange thing, I think grief because I was so exhausted all the time and because at night you're thinking, and they were just all incredibly kind to me, so I'll be, I'll be you know people talk a lot about Hollywood and you know, the craziness of actors and all that kind of stuff, and of course we all know that there are.

Drew: We're all crazy, it's true.

Andrew: But it is true a little bit, but also you're in the empathy game, you are in the empathy game, you're trying to pretend what it's like to, you know, to be another human being and so actors to me have been like the greatest, greatest friends, and you know these people are no exception, so I'm so grateful to them for that.