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Andrew Scott is right – it’s time to retire the phrase ‘openly gay’
Andrew Scott is capable of many things but giving a dull interview seems not to be among them. Last year, he was splendidly decrying the tyranny of the standing ovation in modern theatre (“I strongly believe that if people don’t feel like standing up, they shouldn’t”). Now, in one of those cosy Hollywood Reporter roundtable discussions which proliferate during awards season, he has challenged a piece of outdated rhetoric from an era when queerness was synonymous with shame.
The moment arose when the moderator Scott Feinberg singled out Scott, who stars in Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers as a screenwriter magically reunited with the parents who died when he was 12, and Colman Domingo, who plays Martin Luther King’s advisor Bayard Rustin in the Netflix biopic Rustin, as “openly gay actors playing openly gay characters who are at the centre of important films”. The remark was intended as a way in to a discussion about representation, though at no point did he refer to the other performers present (Robert Downey
Andrew Scott rejects 'openly gay' label
TV star Andrew Scott has said being 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 hot priest", in Fleabag, believes the term does not verb 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 character 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 believe the relationship, that's my job."
Analysis by Ben Hunte, LGBT Correspondent
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