Andrew Scott Explains Inspiration for ‘Tortured Man Club’ Group Chat With Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal

Andrew Scott is spilling the tea about the inspiration for his “Tortured Man Club” group chat with Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal.

“Let me tell you what that is! So they were about to play these tortured characters, and I had played a tortured character in Fleabag. It wasn’t about our own characteristics,” Scott, 47, told Variety in a Wednesday, May 22, profile.

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Andrew Scott Explains Inspiration for ‘Tortured Man Club’ Group Chat With Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal
By Miranda Siwak May 22, 2024
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Andrew Scott is spilling the tea about the inspiration for his “Tortured Man Club” group chat with Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal.

“Let me tell you what that is! So they were about to play these tortured characters, and I had played a tortured character in Fleabag. It wasn’t about our own characteristics,” Scott, 47, told Variety in a Wednesday, May 22, profile.

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Alwyn, 32, and Mescal, 28, were both about to appear in adaptations of Irish author Sally Rooney’s novels. Mescal played Connell in 2020’s Normal People on Hulu. Two years later, Alwyn starred as Nick Conway in the streaming platform’s adaptation of Rooney’s Conversations With Friends. Scott, who appeared as The Priest on Fleabag between 2016 and 2019, had previously acted alongside Alwyn in 2022’s Catherine Called Birdy.

When Alwyn landed his Conversations With Friends role, Scott set him up with Mescal post–Normal People in a group chat.