For Andrew Scott Fans

Television: Risen without tracer [December 19, 2004]
Since Band of Brothers, Andrew Scott has battled to the top, says Mick Heaney
As he stood amid the detritus of the battlefield, Andrew Scott wondered at the futility of it all. He felt entirely out of place, at odds with the aggressive uniformed men who supposedly were his comrades, harassed by the hard-bitten old soldiers who kept barking orders at him. This was not what he had signed up for. He wanted to be an actor.

When Scott first landed the part on Band of Brothers, the second world war television epic, it had been a different story. For the young Irish actor, playing the doomed, foul-mouthed GI Private John “Cowboy” Hall was the kind of job he normally relished. He loved diverse, challenging roles, with which he could explore his craft: his previous screen job had been as an 18th-century naval officer, in the period drama Longitude. But when the shooting began, Scott’s enthusiasm waned.

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