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Andrew Scott Improvised Moriarty's Most Terrifying Line. The Crew Went Silent. They Kept It in Every Take.
2026/06/22 Report

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Andrew Scott Improvised Moriarty's Most Terrifying Line. The Crew Went Silent. They Kept It in Every Take.

The scene is from . The pool. The first full confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty.

Andrew Scott, in preparing for the role, had made a decision that distinguished his Moriarty from every previous version: the character would be genuinely cheerful.


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Not performed cheerfulness as a mask over menace — actually cheerful, in the way of someone who finds the whole situation, including the danger, including the stakes, genuinely amusing.

The written lines gave him the structure. What he added between the lines was his own.

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