Andrew Scott took Fleabag role to avoid being typecast as the villain
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peoplemagazine.co.zaAndrew Scott took on his much-loved role as the Hot Priest in Fleabag because he was tired of playing the villain. The 43-year-old actor, who made his name playing supervillain Jim Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock, feared he would become typecast because of his success in the role, and subsequent turn as a villain in the James Bond film Spectre. “After Sherlock, there were a lot of ‘sub-Moriarty’ roles that were offered to me,” he said in an interview for the June issue of British GQ. “I played a villain in one of the Bond films – I was like, ‘Yeah, I want to be in the Bond film!’ – and that was a really good experience.
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