Andrew Scott secretly handed a kidney stone at 2020 SAG Awards: ‘I used to be writhing round in agony’

The 2020 SAG Awards was an evening to recollect for Andrew Scott — and never simply because he was nominated.

Whereas strolling the crimson carpet for this 12 months's ceremony, Scott determined to lastly let followers in on a secret he's been preserving for the final 5 years: final time he attended the present, he secretly handed a kidney stone.

"I used to be beside Phoebe [Waller-Bridge] and Laura Dern had simply received greatest supporting actress and we had been standing up," the Ripley actor informed Variety on Sunday night time. "I don’t know if anybody has ever skilled having a kidney stone earlier than, however it sends you — the ache is so speedy."

One second he was applauding Dern's supporting actress win for Marriage Story, and the following, he was hunched over in ache.

"As Laura was talking, I used to be crawling out of the [room], and by the point her speech was over, I used to be ripping off my tux," Scott recalled. "I used to be within the again, a type of rooms again there, writhing round in agony."

He added that he knew what was occurring as a result of it wasn't his first kidney stone, however the second was nonetheless pure chaos: as Scott recalled it, he may nonetheless hear Dern's speech occurring within the different room and Waller-Bridge was working water to him earlier than an ambulance arrived to convey him to a hospital.

"It occurs instantly," he harassed. "So by the point Laura reached the stage, I used to be backstage." Scott was nominated that night time for his fan-favorite function because the Sizzling Priest within the second season of Waller-Bridge's Fleabag — fortunately, he didn't miss his on digicam second as a result of his award was the primary of the night time. Although he didn't get to say the gilded actor statue (that honor went to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Tony Shalhoub), Scott could have walked away with a memento of one other type… however he'll by no means inform.

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Declining to disclose what turned of his kidney stone, Scott laughed, "That’s an excessive amount of. Individuals don’t have to find out about that. It was grisly.”

5 years faraway from the painful medical incident, Scott stated he was "feeling good" about his SAG Awards return. This time round, the actor was nominated for his function in Ripley, and misplaced to Colin Farrell's efficiency in The Penguin. Scott didn't let the loss get him down although, and gave the impression to be having the time of his life in footage captured at a SAG Awards afterparty.

From the look of his dance strikes, Scott managed to keep away from making a practice of his medical emergency. Or, on the very least, did a wonderful job of hiding it.

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