Andrew Scott remains to be occupied with the London theatergoer who thought it was a good suggestion to take out his laptop computer and casually reply some emails in the midst of a efficiency of Hamlet.
The Wake Up Lifeless Man actor introduced up the incident whereas reflecting on his time within the 2017 London manufacturing on Wednesday’s episode of Late Night time With Seth Meyers.
“We had one very unusual expertise once I was doing ‘to be or to not be’ — the well-known [speech], ? — and this man took out his laptop computer,” Scott stated. “You’re talking on to the viewers as a result of it’s a soliloquy, and he was simply tapping away doing his emails.”
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The Fleabag alum recalled being greatly surprised by the person’s brazen habits. “I used to be like, ‘I’m sorry, however!’” he stated, crossing his arms over his chest.
And, because it seems, Scott wasn’t the one one within the theater that noticed the expertise travesty unfolding within the crowd, both.
“Everybody within the viewers was getting actually conscious as a result of when any individual’s on somebody’s cellphone, you possibly can discover them,” he emphasised to host Seth Meyers. “This was a laptop computer. It was lighting up about three rows.”
In the long run, Scott stated that he paused the present completely and glared on the oblivious emailer till he lastly caught on to what was occurring and put his laptop computer away.
“All people was like, ‘Sir,’” he stated, miming bumping elbows with the person. “And he was like, ‘What? What? Oh, sorry, sorry.’ He didn’t care. He was identical to, ‘What?’”
Meyers joked that the person shouldn’t be blamed for his dangerous theater etiquette. “He was like, ‘They didn’t make an announcement about laptops!’” he teased. “‘If it was a problem, they need to have stated no laptops. I turned my cellphone off!’”
A laughing Scott replied, “Precisely. Isn’t that so loopy, although?”
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Scott first talked about the incident on a 2023 episode of the Joyful Unhappy Confused podcast, noting that the Hamlet stage workforce inspired him to proceed the soliloquy, however that he refused to proceed till all laptops have been safely stowed away.
“I used to be like, ‘There’s no approach,’” Scott stated on the time. “I ended for ages.”
Scott’s tackle Hamlet first opened at London’s Almeida Theatre in early 2017 earlier than making the leap to the West Finish for a second run on the Harold Pinter Theatre later that very same yr. In 2025, he returned to the stage in a sold-out, one-man Off Broadway adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, titled Vanya.
Watch Scott focus on the laptop computer fiasco within the clip above.
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