Claire Foy Speaks About Her Role In ‘All Of Us Strangers’

Claire Foy spoke with Deadline about her role in Andrew Haigh’s new film All of Strangers starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. The film follows Andrew Scott’s character, Adam, who is writing a new script about his parents’ death from a car crash when he was 12. Looking for inspiration, Adam visits his childhood home, and discovers his parents alive and frozen in time from the day of the car crash, looking exactly as they did.

Claire Foy plays Adam’s mother alongside Jamie Bell. Deadlinespoke to the actress about her role in the supernatural love story. Foy spoke about playing a mother saying, “I’m from a family where there’s a hell of a lot of women. I’ve got so many aunts in my family, so ‘mum’ became an amalgamation of the many different women in many different moments to me.”

Although having never met Jamie Bell, who would play her husband in the film, Foy knew their on-screen chemistry would work, “He’s [Jamie Bell] so engaged all the time, and his emotions are so close to the surface. It’s the most beautiful thing to see in a man that has such access to it all the time.”

Foy spoke about the family dynamics on screen with Bell and Scott saying it came naturally for the three of them. “I can’t really put my finger on what it was, but it was the coming together of three people who’d known each other a long time. And it was immediate. We were all there.”

Foy also spoke about the emotional moment in the film when Andrew Scott comes out to his parents as gay. Foy said, “It was really interesting being invited into that scene from a position of having the two Andrews talking about their own experiences. I think Andrew Scott didn’t want it to be a coming out scene. He didn’t want it to be that he had gone there to his mum’s house with the idea that he had to come out. Because he’s a man in his forties, and has an understanding of himself and his sexuality. There was no unresolved business there for him.”

All of Us Strangers is now in theaters in the US, and is set to be released on January 26, 2024, in the UK.