Ripley’s Andrew Scott Reveals He Passed a Kidney Stone at the 2020 SAG Awards and Was Rushed Out Via Ambulance

Andrew Scott is letting fans in on a secret he’s been keeping for five years.

The Ripley star, 48, walked the red carpet at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 23, where he reflected on his past experiences at the annual show. Speaking with Variety, Scott shared that he will never forget the 2020 ceremony — and the reason was shocking.

“I was beside Phoebe [Waller-Bridge] and Laura Dern had just won best supporting actress and we were standing up,” explained Scott, who was nominated for his role in Fleabag that night. “I don’t know if anyone has ever experienced having a kidney stone before, but it sends you — the pain is so immediate.”

Having had kidney stones before, Scott said he knew that he was experiencing a medical emergency. As Waller-Bridge brought him water and Dern was finished accepting her award for Marriage Story, Scott said he had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance.

“I was in the back [of the room]… writhing around in agony,” he recalled.

Despite the chaos, Scott said no one ever found out about the incident. He also declined to reveal where he left the kidney stone.

“That’s too much,” he laughed. “People don’t need to know about that. It was grisly.”

The actor did not take home any wins at this year’s SAG Awards, but he was nominated for outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or limited series for his titular character in Ripley. 

In the eight-episode thriller, based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, Scott’s Tom Ripley is a con man and sociopath. The entirely black-and-white series came after the 1999 movie remake, The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Matt Damon and Jude Law. 

In a December 2023 interview, Scott said he wanted to make the character his own after past portrayals by other actors.

“It was a heavy part to play,” he told Vanity Fair at the time. “I found it mentally and physically really hard. That’s just the truth of it.”

“I feel like you’re required to love and advocate for your characters, and your job is to go, ‘Why? What’s that?’ You don’t play the opinions, the previous attitudes that people might have about Tom Ripley,” added Scott, who also served as executive producer of the limited series. “You have to throw all those out, try not to listen to them, and go, ‘Okay, well, I have to have the courage to create our own version and my own understanding of the character.’”

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