With Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Josh O’Connor may have just toppled Andrew Scott from his Hot Priest podium.

From Conclave to Father Stu to The Two Popes, religious men have become a niche cinematic staple, with some of the finest acting talent taking on clergymen characters. It’s often an intense role, one of introspection on religion and morality. But it’s also one that can get hot around the clerical collar.

Still, none have reached the heady heights of Andrew Scott in Fleabag.

For almost a decade, Scott has held the title of Hot Priest, thanks to his attentive listening and “kneel” commands. But now that crown is being passed to O’Connor in the third whodunnit Knives Out instalment.

In Wake Up Dead Man, the charismatic British actor plays “young, dumb and full of Chr

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