Brilliant British actor Andrew Scott leads Netflix’s Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel series “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
The “All of Us Strangers” actor portrays the titular sinister grifter who is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), to return home.
Set in Europe of the 1960s, the series hinges on a core love triangle between Ripley, Dickie, and Dickie’s fiancée Marge Sherwood (Dakota Fanning).
The Netflix show is filmed in black and white.
“Ripley” is co-produced by Showtime and Endemol Shine North America in association with Entertainment 360 and Filmrights. Executive producers are writer-director Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Clayton Townsend, Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner, Sharon Levy, and Philipp Keel of Diogenes.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley was adapted into a major French film, the 1960 Purple Noon, directed by René Clément, an starring the gorgeous looking Alain Delon.
Lead actor-producer Scott said that “Ripley” was a “tough shoot.”
“I was in the middle of playing an enormous part,” Scott said. “Tom Ripley in the new version of ‘Talented Mr. Ripley,’ and I was in Italy, and I’d been away during the pandemic for almost a year. I was doing an enormous amount of acting, it was a genuinely enormous part. And so actually, I was looking forward to not acting for a little while. It was a tough shoot.”
“Ripley” premieres April 4 on Netflix. Check out the trailer below.
