Andrew Scott: our Best Actor winner – 'maybe I’ve acted a bit too much in the last few years'

Andrew Scott was “really, genuinely thrilled, shocked and surprised” to win the Best Actor statuette at the 67th Evening Standard Awards last weekend for his performance in Simon Stephens’s Vanya, a one-person adaptation of Chekhov’s play. “Our producers Wessex Grove decided that they would put something that is a little bit mad and not necessarily commercial into a West End Theatre,” says the 47-year-old when we speak.

“And it was really surprising that so many people came to watch it because it is an unusual idea and it does require an awful lot of hard work from the audience. But we had people saying they’d come from Venezuela and New Zealand to see it.”