‘Everything is going to be alright indeed!’ Video of Fleabag’s ‘hot priest’ Andrew Scott reciting reassuring poetry for an Irish cancer charity leaves fans with ‘goosebumps’
- Andrew Scott, 43, filmed himself performing a poem written by Derek Mahon
- Emilia Clarke shared the Everything Is Going To Be Alright reading on Instagram
- The Fleabag actor impressed fans who dubbed his performance as ‘beautiful’
- He performed the poem to raise awareness for Men Against Cancer Ireland
Fleabag actor Andrew Scott has left fans reeling with his reassuring tones after reading out a poem to raise awareness for an Irish cancer charity.
The silken-voiced 43-year-old Irish star, most famous for his role as the ‘hot priest’ in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s hit series, filmed himself performing Everything is Going to be All Right by Derek Mahon.
British actress Emilia Clarke, posted the footage on Instagram saluting Andrew for supporting health charity Men Against Cancer Ireland, writing that as a sufferer of depression, she’d found solace in hearing Mahon’s words.
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Andrew Scott (pictured) filmed himself reciting Everything is Going to be All Right by Derek Mahon for Men Against Cancer Ireland
Andrew is the latest star to perform a poem for an Instagram series run by The Poetry Pharmacy. Pictured: Andrew in Fleabag
The recording is the latest in a series of clips shared by The Poetry Pharmacy, who’ve also featured the likes of Idris Elba and Helena Bonham Carter.
Fans of the star who is best known for playing a sexy man of cloth in Fleabag, gushed over Andrew’s delivery of the poem. One person wrote: ‘This is absolutely beautiful and particularly poignant! Thank you for sharing and to Andrew for the incredible delivery.
Another said: ‘Lost count of how many times I’ve watched this now’
A third added: ‘I found this so incredibly moving Emilia Clarke, for sharing this and so much to Mr Andrew Scott for his awesome recital it gave me goosebumps.’
Actress Emilia explained the poem offers a push to reassess situations in life that can seem overpowering.
She shared: ‘As a great sufferer from depression myself, I find a small moment like this, a sudden splash of serenity and beauty, can provide the impetus needed to run my mood around.
She added: ‘Too often, our pain is either in our heads or magnified beyond all proportion.
‘If we can learn to manage it, if we can find that oasis of calm in the reflection of the waves, then we might find that out problems are not as all-consuming as we imagined. Thank you thank you Andrew!’
The recording is the latest in a series of clips shared by The Poetry Pharmacy, who’ve also featured the likes of Idris Elba and Helena Bonham Carter
Scott with co-star and Fleabag writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge; the role of a sexy man of the cloth has seen Scott become a household name
A stream of Instagram users gushed over Andrew’s delivery of the poem and labelled it ‘beautiful’
Mahon’s soothing poem has lines including: ‘Perhaps a shaft of afternoon light paints a familiar view an unfamiliar gold; perhaps dust in a sunbeam or the dance of sparks above a fire transport you, for a long instant, to somewhere else altogether.
‘The almost magical-seeming reflections of ripples on a ceiling are transfixing in just the same way.
‘In moments like these- awe-struck moments when the ferocious beauty of the everyday catches us unawares- we are often moved to a reassessment. One flash of sunlight can be all it takes to give us the sense of possibility that can change everything.’