Richard Linklater's Blue Moon, with Ethan Hawke as the lyricist Lorenz Hart and a Silver Bear-winning Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, screened as a London Film Festival gala.
Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, with Ethan Hawke as the lyricist Lorenz Hart, screened at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Thursday 16 October 2025. Andrew Scott joined Hawke and Linklater for the 69th BFI London Film Festival’s Headline Gala.
Scott was born in Dublin in 1976. At 17 he won the lead in his first film, Korea. He left Trinity College Dublin after six months to join the Abbey Theatre.
He moved to London at 22. His Moriarty in Sherlock won him a BAFTA, and the priest in the second series of Fleabag made his name beyond the stage. He holds two Laurence Olivier Awards, the second for Present Laughter.
In Blue Moon he plays Richard Rodgers, a performance that won him the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at the Berlin in February.
Robert Kaplow’s screenplay, drawn from Hart’s letters to Elizabeth Weiland, is set largely in Sardi’s restaurant on 31 March 1943. That night Oklahoma!, Rodgers’s first musical with Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway.
Margaret Qualley and Bobby Cannavale co-star. Sony Pictures Classics opened the film in American cinemas on Friday 17 October.