Jordan Firstman said he and Andrew Scott were going for dates during the pandemic, turning a playful Interview magazine chat into the kind of conversation that does not stay private for long. The two actors, who were talking while promoting two of the biggest gay films of the year, also said they still flirt every time they see each other.
That was enough to send the exchange racing across social media, where fans on X immediately started wondering whether the pair had actually dated. Firstman did not sound tentative about it. He said he used to have the biggest crush on Scott, that he still thinks they flirt whenever they run into each other, and that the connection felt, in his words, really locked in.
Scott agreed with that part of the story. Asked about the history between them, Firstman recalled asking, “Were you pleased?” and then saying, “Obviously. You know I used to have the biggest crush on you.” He went on to say, “But the pandemic, we were going for dates. And the banter,” and added, “I still think we flirt every time we see each other.” Firstman also said he was so taken with Scott that when they first started messaging, he thought he was texting a hot priest and imagined, “This is my husband, a hundred percent going to happen.”
The line that gave the exchange its bite came when Scott brushed off the romance with a joke: “I belong to the church.” That read less like a denial than a deflection, and it left the main question hanging in the open. Firstman said they were dating during the pandemic; Scott laughed it off without confirming how far it went. In a recent cover story with Out, Scott said he is private about details of his personal life, explaining, “I always say there’s a difference between privacy and secrecy. I’m still private, but there’s a difference between those two things.”
The viral reaction has done the rest, pushing a flirty exchange into a wider public conversation about what, exactly, happened between the two men. The interview landed while Scott and Firstman were doing press for Elsinore and Club Kid, but the clip that spread online was not about promotion. It was about a history neither man had seemed eager to spell out in full, and that is why the story still has traction: the dates were acknowledged, the flirting was confirmed, and the rest remains exactly where Scott seems to prefer it, in the private space between a joke and an answer.
