Andrew Scott is sharing a brief role he played in an extremely memorable film
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actor recalls playing "Soldier on the Beach" in Saving Private Ryan
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While the role itself was small, it left a huge impact on Scott
Andrew Scottis opening up about a blink-and-you'll-miss-it part in a Hollywood blockbuster that remains incredibly memorable.
In an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter, Scott, 49, notes that he played the part of “Soldier on the Beach” in the 1998 epic,Saving Private Ryan.
The part comes in the opening sequence of the Steven Spielberg-directed film, and takes place during the Normandy Invasion at Omaha Beach on D-Day.
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“I had one line or something, andTom Hanksrolled over me, and I was very happy to be there,” Scott told the outlet of his small role in the film. “It was an extraordinary thing — it was my first time being on a set of that enormity, and I feel very proud that I got to be a tiny part of that. It's a sequence that's gone down in movie history.”
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The Oscar-winning war drama was inspired by Edward, Preston, Robert and Frederick “Fritz” Niland, four brothers from Upstate New York who all fought in World War II.
In the film,Matt Damonportrays Private James Francis Ryan, a character loosely based on Fritz. Captain John H. Miller (Hanks) is tasked with leading his company to find Private Ryan — unaware that his three brothers have been killed — so he can be sent back home to his grieving family.
Scott iscurrently starring in another World War II drama—Pressure,which is based on David Haig's 2014 stage play of the same name and centers on the tense 72 hours before D-Day, when General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg debate launching a dangerous seaborne invasion or risk losing the war.
In the film Scott plays a British Met Office meteorologist attached to the Royal Air Force who is tasked with providing Eisenhower with an accurate weather forecast to give the seaborne invasion of Normandy its best chance of succeeding.
Speaking to PEOPLE in a recent interview, Scott underscored the importance of his projects having a solid script.
"You know, I don't think you can make a great movie if you've got a mediocre script," he said. "I just don't think it's likely for me in some ways. So I've been doing lots of very different stuff, and that's kind of the name of the game for me."
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