- Scott was in the hospital with Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Laura Dern, who had just won Best Supporting Actress.
- He was in the back of the room, writhing in agony, and no one discovered the incident.
- Scott refused to disclose where he left the kidney stone, stating it was “grossly.”
Andrew Scott is finally sharing a secret he has kept for five years. While walking the red carpet at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 23, the “Ripley” star, 48, reflected on his past experiences at the annual event. Speaking with source, Scott revealed that he will never forget the 2020 ceremony—and the reason was shocking.
“I was beside Phoebe [Waller-Bridge] and Laura Dern had just won best supporting actress and we were standing up,” explained Scott, who was nominated for his role in Fleabag that night. “I don’t know if anyone has ever experienced having a kidney stone before, but it sends you — the pain is so immediate.”
Scott recognized he was experiencing a medical emergency since he had dealt with kidney stones before. As Waller-Bridge brought him water and Dern finished accepting her award for “Marriage Story”, paramedics took Scott to the hospital in an ambulance.
“I was in the back [of the room]… writhing around in agony,” he recalled.
Scott said no one ever discovered the incident despite the chaos. He also refused to disclose where he left the kidney stone.
“That’s too much,” he laughed. “People don’t need to know about that. It was grisly.”
The SAG Awards did not bring Scott any wins this year, but he earned a nomination for outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or limited series for his lead role in “Ripley”.
The eight-episode thriller, based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley”, follows Scott’s character, Tom Ripley, a con man, and sociopath. The entirely black-and-white series premiered after the 1999 film adaptation, “The Talented Mr. Ripley”, which starred Matt Damon and Jude Law.
In a December 2023 interview, Scott shared his desire to put his own spin on the character after other actors had portrayed him in the past.
“It was a heavy part to play,” he told Vanity Fair at the time. “I found it mentally and physically hard. That’s just the truth of it.”
“I feel like you’re required to love and advocate for your characters, and your job is to go, ‘Why? What’s that?’ You don’t play the opinions, the previous attitudes that people might have about Tom Ripley,” added Scott, who also served as executive producer of the limited series. “You have to throw all those out, try not to listen to them, and go, ‘Okay, well, I have to have the courage to create our version and my understanding of the character.’”
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