As All of Us Strangers begins to rack up the awards season accolades — so far being nominated at the Gothams, Film Independent Spirits and National Board of Review Awards — stars Andrew Scott, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell premiered their film in Los Angeles on Saturday night alongside writer-director Andrew Haigh.
The project stars Scott as a gay writer who begins a relationship with his mysterious neighbor (played by Paul Mescal), while at the same time discovering his parents (played by Foy and Bell) appear to be living just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
“I thought it was really one of the most extraordinary scripts I’d ever read. Truly heartbreaking,” Scott told The Hollywood Reporter of taking on the project. “I was really in bits after reading the script and the finished movie really doesn’t differ too much from the original script.”
Scott and Mescal — who wasn’t in attendance at the event — are getting particular attention for their chemistry, as the Fleabag actor said they knew each other just a little bit before filming, but “we formed a really, really close bond. I absolutely adore Paul, he was such an incredible colleague. He’s such a soulful and intelligent and hardworking actor, it was wonderful. Couldn’t have imagined doing it with anyone else.”
Both actors are fresh off of starring as romantic leads in their own hit shows — Mescal in Normal People and Scott in Fleabag — though the latter noted that while this role is very different from playing the “Hot Priest” in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s series, “playing love in that sense, falling in love, is a really beautiful thing to do, and chemistry is a very hard thing to quantify or qualify. I think sometimes chemistry is about great writing and actors really wanting to be there and just really understanding that acting is about just listening to each other, in the same way that a good date is about good…
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