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When Andrew Scott’s Hot Priest wandered into the street lamp-lit London evening in the tear-jerking series finale, it’s now safe to assume he headed straight to Josh O’Connor after abandoning Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag at a bus stop. Indeed, the bona fide ‘hot rodent man’ and the latest internet fixation has picked up the cloth left behind by the Irish actor and will enter a new addition of attractive clergymen into an underrated canon.
For the uninitiated, the Challengers actor has put down his tennis racket and picked up the eucharist after on-set photos revealed he will be playing a priest in Rain Johnson’s latest Knives Out film. The third instalment of the comedic murder-mystery trilogy, titled Wake Up Dead Man, will see the incumbent James Bond, Daniel Craig, reprise his role as the schmick and Southern-drawled detective Benoit Blanc. But seeing Craig swap His Majesty’s Secret Service Saville Row tuxedos for summery linen suits has become second on netizens’ agenda after evidence of O’Connor sporting his clerical collar costume emerged.
Josh O’Connor as a priest in ‘KNIVES OUT 3’ https://t.co/SUQtpGejGf
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Lusting over a fictional, on-screen hot priest has become somewhat of a rite of passage. Culturally, it feels as if our fascination with girlhood has evolved into a discourse surrounding womanhood, as we observed with Beare Park’s recent Resort 2025 collection presentation at Australian Fashion Week and the gesture of clothes fit for growing up in Miu Miu’s Fall/Winter 2024 show at Paris Fashion Week. So what better pillar to mark in our collective evolution than O’Connor’s lust-worthy minister?
If that doesn’t pique your interest, allow us to direct your attention to Paul Mescal dressed as a centurion on the set of Gladiator II. If religion isn’t your shtick, may we first suggest a binge-watch of Scott’s performance in the award-winning limited series, then try getting acquainted with the Roman Empire?
Paul Mescal on the set of ‘GLADIATOR ll’ https://t.co/JDvJl1CAyX
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If both those areas of interest provoke further study, fear not. O’Connor and Mescal will soon share the screen in the queer historical romance The History Of Sound. The upcoming film, based on the Pushcart Prize-winning story by Ben Shattuck, will follow two young American musicians, Lionel and David, travelling America amid the outbreak of World War I. The film is slated to be released in 2025, meaning both Knives Out 3 and Gladiator II will have hit screens by then. Scott and Mescal also starred in All Of Us Strangers, so it’s not a long shot to assume O’Connor might’ve asked for Scott’s advice.
Thank God for cinema!
