Andrew Scott on halting Hamlet soliloquy after man in audience opened laptop to send emails

“A guy took out his laptop – not his phone, his laptop – while I was in the middle of ‘To be or not to fucking be’.”

Andrew Scott as Hamlet in the Almeida Theatre production. Picture: Manuel Harlan

To bcc or not to bcc – that was the question facing a theatregoer watching Andrew Scott’s performance of Hamlet.

The actor, best known as Fleabag’s “hot priest” and who is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in All of Us Strangers, has revealed he halted the renowned soliloquy in Shakespeare’s play when an audience member took out a laptop to send emails.