Andrew Scott has responded to the 162 per cent rise in searches for religious porn after his role as the “hot priest” in Fleabag, saying: “Whatever floats your boat.”
The actor, who played the love interest in Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘s hit series, nervously laughed when an Evening Standard interviewer told him the statistic.
“Yeah, yeah,” he said. ”There you go. Right... And somebody said for Halloween there’s a new priest outfit, so that’s pretty cool. I won’t be wearing it but, you know. Whatever floats your boat.”
He added that his priest character becoming an unlikely sex icon is “embarrassing to even think about”.
In another interview with Mr Porter, Scott said he would “love to be in a rom-com” after he was typecast following his six-year stint as Sherlock villain Moriarty. “I turned down a lot,” he said. “The shadow of that character took over for a little while.”
There are no romantic comedies on Scott’s agenda yet, but he will next be seen in Amazon anthology series Modern Love as a gay man looking for a surrogate to carry his child.
It was also recently announced that Scott will be starring as the eponymous lead in a new adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripleyand he is currently filming His Dark Materials.
He also addressed the rumours regarding his involvement in a future Marvel film, saying: “Oh, f***. Completely false. Someone said, ‘Are you going to be in a thing?’ I said, ‘No,’ and I said, ‘There have been discussions.’ And it’s like, ‘Andrew Scott has been in discussions.’”
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