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A mum has praised a 'heroic' stranger who stepped in to confront an 'aggressive' passenger shouting and swearing in front of her young child during a train journey.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAndrew Scott is swapping his dog collar for a shaman’s cloak.The “Fleabag” star is the latest addition to the HBO-BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, playing the mysterious Colonel John Parry. Scott said the spiritual themes of the original novels were a large part of what drew him to the show.“The books deal with religion in a very strong way and talk about how you can be a very kind, generous, soulful, wonderful person and that doesn’t necessarily have to do with an organized religion,” Scott told Variety during a video interview, which you can watch above.

His Dark Materials has confirmed a Fleabag reunion for Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Andrew Scott.The pair, who starred together in the second season of Waller-Bridge’s dark comedy series, are set to reunite on screen in the fantasy drama as a human and dæmon.Scott, who broke the news during Comic-Con@Home on Thursday (July 23), revealed that Waller-Bridge will have a small voiceover role in His Dark Materials as his character John Parry’s osprey dæmon Sayan Kötör.“What’s beautiful to me about the books is the relationship with the dæmons and, I think this is the first time we are revealing this, but my dæmon is going to be played by someone who is very close to me in my real life: a young performer and writer called Phoebe Waller-Bridge,” he

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is set to reunite with Fleabag co-star Andrew Scott for a TV project!