Andrew Scott weighs in on debate about All Of Us Strangers character (2025)

Andrew Scott has revealed what he believes to be the fate of his divisive character in the hit film All Of Us Strangers.

The actor, 48, played screenwriter Adam in the stirring movie which blurs the lines between reality and fantasy.

It's based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada and in the end viewers are left questioning whether the protagonist has been dead or alive the whole time.

Now - weighing into a popular debate among fans - Adam has expressed that he 'doesn't believe' his character had passed away, which many theorise may be the case.

Speaking to The Guardian, he expressed: 'People have come up with extraordinarily personal and creative ideas about what they think the film is saying.

'All of Us Strangers is great because it ignites the audience's imaginations and sometimes there's a poverty of imagination in our movies.

'Sometimes, the worst thing you can do is to reduce the magic by over-explaining it. I guess that's my way of saying I'm not answering that.'

The movie has had people in tears since its release back in January with many believing it was overlooked at this year's award season.

Andrew Scott has revealed what he believes to be the fate of his divisive character in the hit film All Of Us Strangers

The actor, 48, played screenwriter Adam in the stirring movie which blurs the lines between reality and fantasy

The emotional drama starring Andrew and Paul Mescal ties together a beautiful romance with deep grief, as Andrew's character, Adam, remains deeply affected by the death of his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell).

The film begins as we meet Adam living a life of solitude in his derelicthigh-rise city apartment in London.

Watching Frankie Goes To Hollywood performing The Power Of Love on his TV, a motif that continues to recur throughout the film, Adam then gets a knock on the door as he meets his neighbour Harry, played by Paul Mescal.

As Harry arrives drunk holding a bottle of whiskey he quotes the lyrics from the Frankie Goes To Hollywood hit, whispering: 'I'll protect you from the hooded claw/ Keep the vampires from your door'.

After asking Adam whether he can join him for the night, Adam declines, but he later meets Harry in the lift, and the pair begin a passionate relationship.

As Adam learns to love someone and let someone in, he remains deeply affected by the death of his parents after they both died in a car crash when he was 11 years old.

The film depicts a romance between Harry and Adam. However Harry dies the very night he meets Adam, as is discovered later in the film

Throughout the film, Andrew continues to visit his parents in his childhood home, which is just as he remembered them in the 1980s (pictured Claire Foy who plays his mother)

Throughout the film, Andrew continues to visit his parents in his childhood home, which is just as he remembered them in the 1980s.

After saying goodbye to his parents for the final time in a deeply emotional interaction, Adam appears ready to move on from his grief and begin a life with Harry.

However, he returns to Harry's flat to discover his dead body beside the same bottle of whiskey he was carrying when he turned up at Adam's door that first night.

As Adam stares in a state of shock at Harry's body, the door goes again and Harry enters wearing the same pink jumper from that first night as he asks: 'I'm in there, aren't I?'

When he weeps in Adam's arms it becomes clear - Harry has been dead the entire film after he died the night Adam declined to spend the night with him.

Yet once you realise, the clues throughout the film begin to present themselves.

Firstly, on the night they meet Harry is holding the same Japanese whiskey he is found with when he dies, and is wearing the same ratty pink jumper.

The pair are also the only two occupants in the building, and Harry mentions that the windows have been locked to stop people from jumping.

The emotional drama starring Andrew and Paul Mescal ties together a beautiful romance with deep grief

Adam then visits his parents as we learn for the first time that he can see dead people and interact with them in an incredibly lifelike way.

After his visit he meets Harry in the lift and their relationship begins. Growing closer throughout the film, the pair go on a blurry night out together and it gets increasingly difficult to make out what is real.

This is where things become rather confusing as after Adam takes a huge dose of ketamine is unclear what is reality.

As lights flash and the music blares, Harry disappears and Adam's vision becomes distorted as he struggles to make out if Harry is really there or not.

On the tube ride home Harry keeps appearing and disappearing as Adam loses his grasp of reality.

At the end of the film, Adam enters Harry's flat and finds an empty bag of drugs and bottle of whiskey before he sees Harry's body and realises he has overdosed.

It is implied that the body is in an advanced state of decomposition as Adam recoils from the smell - suggesting he has been dead for a long time and no one has noticed.

However, is Adam dead too?

Now - weighing into a popular debate among fans - Adam has expressed that he 'doesn't believe' his character had passed away, which many theorise may be the case. Andrew and Paul pictured in February

Some theories suggest that the main character is also not alive, hence why he can interact with dead people so easily.

Adam strangely lives in an empty apartment block, perhaps implying that there is a reason no one else resides there or he doesn't really live there at all.

At the beginning of the film a fire alarm goes off, prompting one theory that Adam died in a fire that day, trapping his spirit with Harry.

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Speaking about this theory, director Andrew Haigh said: 'Someone asked me the other day if they'd all died when the building burnt down. They said, "Oh, did the building burn down at the beginning or the end?" And I'm like, "Building burned down?"

'But it's because there's a fire alarm in the beginning, and I think someone thought that maybe when he went out and came back in again, they both burned to death in the apartment and the rest of it is some kind of purgatory.

'I kind of like that idea, actually. I know lots of people think that maybe Adam is not alive and I can understand why they might think that. The opening shot is a strange shot and there are sometimes times that I think that maybe he's not alive as well.'

Another debate is whether the ghosts are real or not?

There is a theory that Adam's parents and Harry aren't actual ghosts and could just be figments of Adam's imagination.

Early on we learn that Adam is writing a script about his parents, therefore all the visits to his childhood home could be imagined as part of his project.

However, this doesn't explain why Adam is unable to understand that Harry is also a ghost even though he knows this is true of his parents.

Either way Adam has curated these figures in his life out of his own loneliness and grief as he struggles to move on from his childhood trauma and find his place in the world.

Andrew Scott weighs in on debate about All Of Us Strangers character (2025)
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