Andrew Scott forced to halt Hamlet after spotting audience member on his laptop

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To flee or not to flee – that’s in all probability the query a surprised audience member requested himself when he observed actor Andrew Scott evident at him throughout a efficiency of Hamlet.

Scott, 47, who was solid within the title position in Robert Icke’s manufacturing of the Shakespearean tragedy, recalled his shock when he observed an audience member utilizing his laptop in the course of the well-known “to be or not to be” soliloquy.

Performing on the Almeida Theatre in 2017, Scott held up the efficiency till the errant theatre-goer put away his laptop, the award-winning actor revealed throughout a latest interview.

“When I was playing Hamlet, a guy took out his laptop – not his phone, his laptop – while I was in the middle of ‘to be or not to f***ing be’,” the Fleabag star instructed the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

“I was pausing and [the stage team] were like, ‘Get on with it’ and I was like, ‘There’s no way’. And he didn’t realise, I stopped for ages,” he added.

Scott mentioned it wasn’t till the girl accompanying the laptop consumer nudged him that he put his laptop away.

The actor was not too long ago recognised for his critically acclaimed one-man efficiency in Vanya, playwright Simon Stephens’s model of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, throughout a six-week run on the Duke of York’s theatre in London.

The position earned Scott the Best Actor gong on the 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards throughout a star-studded ceremony on the Claridge’s Hotel in central London on 19 November 2023.

Scott instructed the newspaper he was “really, genuinely thrilled, shocked and surprised” to win the award for the play, including that it was “really surprising” so many individuals got here to watch it.

“Our producers Wessex Grove decided that they would put something that is a little bit mad and not necessarily commercial into a West End Theatre,” he defined.

“And it was really surprising that so many people came to watch it because it is an unusual idea and it does require an awful lot of hard work from the audience. But we had people saying they’d come from Venezuela and New Zealand to see it.”

Scott co-stars with fellow Irish actor Paul Mescal in Andrew Haigh’s tender queer romance All of Us Strangers, which premiered on the Telluride Film Festival final August.

The movie, primarily based on the 1987 Japanese novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada, earned a staggering 94 per cent critics’ rating on the evaluation aggregation web site Rotten Tomatoes – which means that an overwhelming majority of critics’s evaluations have been optimistic.