'Hot Priest' Andrew Scott telling you that everything is going to be alright is essential viewing
Sometimes all you need is someone to hug you and tell you everything will be fine.
For social distancing reasons, we cannot hug you right now, but we can offer this delightful video of Andrew Scott (aka "Hot Priest" from Fleabag) reading "Everything is Going to be All Right," by Irish poet Derek Mahon.
The video of Scott's poetry reading was posted by Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, who recently launched a series of celebrity poetry readings for charity. She added that the Fleabag actor had asked to dedicate his reading to Men Against Cancer Ireland.
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True to form, Scott reads this lovely poem in his usual charming fashion, and the video leaves you with an overarching feeling that everything will be okay after all.
"How should I not be glad to contemplate/ the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window/ and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?" Scott begins.
"The sun rises in spite of everything," continues Scott. "And the far cities are beautiful and bright."
"I lie here in a riot of sunlight/ watching the day break and the clouds flying/ Everything is going to be all right."
How very soothing.
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
