The Olivier Award-winning actor Andrew Scott has had a sure, steady rise to success in the 15 years that the Dublin-born performer, now 33, has been performing professionally, first in Ireland, then England, and also on Broadway [in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour]. He's just opened at London's Old Vic Theatre as mercurial playwright Leo Mercure in Tony-winning director Anthony Page’s highly accomplished revival of Noel Coward’s Design For Living, co-starring Lisa Dillon and Tom Burke. The part and play are bringing Scott his largest London theater exposure to date, so it seemed appropriate to begin our conversation on that topic.
Broadway.com: It must be interesting to be doing a play that deals with fame and success at a time in your career when you are confronting those things yourself. Andrew Scott: Absolutely, especially with ideas about fame and celebrity very present nowadays. The thing about Leo is that in a way he’s far too much of an artist to be interested in success. There’s that old cliché about “living by my art alone,” and I think for Leo that’s true. That’s a great difficulty for a lot of actors in that they think that in order to be artistically admired, they have to be in some way a terribly serious person. I’m more inclined to agree with Coward that it’s nice to enjoy yourself, too. Otherwise, what the hell is the point?
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