The Fife-born actor – who you might recognise from Mission: Impossible 2, Irvine Welsh's Crime and Desperate Housewives – was speaking about his latest work, Channel 4 drama Summerwater, which adapts Sarah Moss's acclaimed novel and follows the rising tensions between the inhabitants of a Scottish holiday park over a 24–hour period.
Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Scott – who plays David, a retired GP who's on holiday with his sick wife Annie (Shirley Henderson) – said the show's examination of xenophobia and social division feels "very pertinent".
"And the reality of that you can pick apart in five f**king seconds and just say, 'What on earth are you talking about?' There is no 'us'; we're a melting pot. We're a huge mixture of cultures, religions, people from all sorts of walks of life, which then translates into gender and sex and sexuality and all that.
"And I think that voice, that dog whistle of white supremacy, has reared its head again through Reform and Nigel Farage, and I find it utterly disgusting and distasteful – and it's certainly not part of the fabric of me and how I see the world, or what I know the reality of this country to be, or any country to be."
View oEmbed on the source website"He says, 'I'm gonna go and live somewhere else.' So then you're going to be an immigrant," he continued.
"Places like Syria, Africa, India, the Middle East, Afghanistan, right? All these places have been affected by developed countries… and that's not to say that people haven't taken responsibility, but we're certainly part of the problem, and we have to be part of the solution. And we have to do it in a compassionate, pragmatic, fair, humanitarian way, as opposed to 'send them back, let them f**king drown'."
"So many of these characters say quite distasteful things, which we might all have said at some point in our lives, and hopefully it will just make people think and be more aware of the flippant things that they can say. Words matter."
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Summerwater continues at 9pm tonight (17th November) on Channel 4, with all episodes available to stream on Channel 4.
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