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Posted: 2024-05-22T20:58:57Z | Updated: 2024-05-22T20:58:57Z

Andrew Scott is chiming in on rumors that he has a loose connection to the title of Taylor Swift s The Tortured Poets Department.

After Swift unveiled her plans for the album in a bombshell announcement at the Grammy Awards in February, fans quickly linked its title to a 2022 Variety interview in which actors Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal alluded to a WhatsApp group chat they had with Scott, Alwyns Catherine Called Birdy co-star.

Its the Tortured Man Club, I think, Alwyn, who was dating Swift at the time, said during the discussion. Its me, you and Andrew Scott started the group.

Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal have a WhatsApp group with Andrew Scott called \"The Tortured Man Club.\"

\"It hasn't had much use recently,\" Alwyn says.
\"I feel like we're less tortured now,\" Mescal quips. https://t.co/CSai4ScQpz pic.twitter.com/veCp1ZdFsD

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Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal have a WhatsApp group with Andrew Scott called "The Tortured Man Club."

"It hasn't had much use recently," Alwyn says.
"I feel like we're less tortured now," Mescal quips. https://t.co/CSai4ScQpz pic.twitter.com/veCp1ZdFsD

Variety (@Variety) December 15, 2022

Speaking to Variety in a new interview published online Wednesday, Scott didnt confirm or deny the speculation that Swift may have been influenced by his group chat. Still, he clarified that its title was meant as a comment about the actors roles rather than anything personal.

Around the time that the chat was named, Alwyn had recently signed on to star in Conversations With Friends . The series was based on a novel by author Sally Rooney, whose book Normal People had a separate adaptation starring Mescal .

So they were about to play these tortured characters, and I had played a tortured character in Fleabag, explained Scott, referring to the British TV series starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It wasnt about our own characteristics!