Andrew Scott is the original Hot Priest, but there are even more swoon-worthy religious figures for Us to obsess over. Yes, the Irish actor’s Fleabag character — named The Priest — is the blueprint, but there were some clergymen who came before (and after) him that can’t be forgotten. Us is sorry to these men if they want to be known as anything other than a hot priest or hot rabbi until the end of time.
“Go out and get some fresh air,” Scott told Entertainment Weekly in April 2024 as a message to fans still obsessed with the Hot Priest five years after Fleabag season 2 premiered. “Stop watching. Stop crying.
Stop crying in your room with your curtains closed. Do something better with your life. It’s a great show, we all love it, but come on now, pull yourself together.
Open the curtains and go outside.” It wasn’t long until Ryan Murphy gave Us a new religious figure to cry about with Nicholas Chavez as Father Charlie Mayhew in the FX series Grotesquerie . “I was told to watch Fleabag .
I did not watch Fleabag ,” Chavez told Us Weekly exclusively before the show’s September 2024 debut, hinting that he put his own spiritual spin on the character. Keep scrolling for a look back at Us ’ favorite hot religious figures over the years: Again, he is the blueprint. Scott played The Priest on season 2 of Prime Video’s Fleabag , which premiered in 2019.
The two most memorable lines he had in that role? “Kneel” or “It’ll pass,” perhaps. “I was i.