In the film All of Us Strangers, Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal play two men who live in a tower block in the center of London and struggle to connect with each other in the midst of a loneliness epidemic interspersed with ghosts from the past.
“I think there’s a sort of crisis in masculinity and what it means to be a man right now,” the Irish actor, who rose to fame as the ‘hot’ priest in Fleabag, says Sky News.
“We all possess these qualities; there is no one way to be, there simply isn’t one, and sometimes the most physically strong individuals are also the ones who won’t support you emotionally.
He continues, “and they’ll be the first to break,” with fellow Irish actor Paul Mescal, who made a name for himself in the hit drama Normal People, adding, “and they’ll be the first to break.”
Scott responds: “When you are able to accept all those parts of you, I think that leads to better mental health and just a sense of stability.”
In All of Us Strangers, a fantasy romance that combines themes of grief, loss, identity, and isolation, the 47-year-old plays screenwriter Adam.
The movie received six BAFTA nominations, including best director, best British film, and best supporting actor for Mescal, despite not making it into the Oscar race.
