"Elsinore" star Andrew Scott says "it troubles me" to hear people say movies should stop tackling the AIDS crisis. “I think it speaks about people who perhaps don’t want to go back to a time when it was incredibly difficult for gay people. And I think that sometimes comes from a place of shame. I don’t want to see that anymore (…) because the shame does not lie with the gay people. The shame lies with the governments who ignored the AIDS crisis and the stigma that was around people and the innate prejudice that was in society. So that’s someone else’s shame.” “I welcome things like ‘Heartstopper’ and ‘Heated Rivalry’ and ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ and all those things that are joyful. I really, really, really do. And I think the fact that there’s lots of different types of gay drama, so to speak, in film and television is extraordinary.” variety.com/2026/film/global…