Andrew Scott was rushed to the hospital during the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2020 due to an 'agonising' health condition. The All Of Us Strangers star attended the ceremony but felt a crippling pain halfway through the ceremony. He realised he was passing a kidney stone, leaving him "writhing around in agony" at the back of the venue as his A-list pals rushed to help him. He revealed he had to be rushed to the hospital for treatment.
At this year's awards show in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, the Sherlock star opened up about the incident during an interview. He explained: "I was beside Phoebe [Waller-Bridge] and Laura Dern had just won best supporting actress [for 'Marriage Story'] and we were standing up.
"I don’t know if anyone has ever experienced having a kidney stone before, but it sends you ... the pain is so immediate ... I was in the back [of the room] …writhing around in agony." That year, he was nominated for his role as the iconic Hot Priest on Fleabag.
Andrew revealed he knew exactly what was going on because he'd had kidney stone problems in the past and when asked what happened to the stone, the actor said to Variety: "That’s too much. People don’t need to know about that. It was grisly." The actor was nominated for his role in Ripley for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series.
He lost out to Colin Farrell - who won for his work on The Penguin. Colin made sure to give a shoutout to his fellow nominees during his acceptance speech. He said: "I want to thank my fellow nominees. Richard, Andrew, Kevin, and Javier, my deepest respect and admiration.
"It sounds cheesy to say, it is cheesy, but we're all supporting actors, there's the big parts, the leads, the small parts, the extras and all that s*** but we all support each other, that's what we do. In the bringing alive of stories, we support. We support the writers and directors.".
Andrew starred as Tom Ripley in the Netflix series, which saw him gain a Primetime Emmy nomination, a Golden Globe nomination, an Independent Spirit nomination and more. The premise of the show follows Ripley, a down-at-the-heels con-man. Unaware of who Ripley is, a wealthy man hires him to convince his prodigal son to return from from Italy.
Ripley's introduction into a life of luxury soon turns out to be "the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder". Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads. Celeb obsessed? Get a daily dose of showbiz gossip direct to your inbox.
