Us Weekly exclusively reveals Andrew Scott’s emmy magazine cover, in which he reveals why he needed ‘an awful lot of stamina’ to play Tom Ripley
Andrew Scott totally transformed to bring grifter Tom Ripley from the page to the screen in Netflix’s Ripley — and needed “an awful lot of stamina” to do it, he reveals in his new emmy magazine cover story.
Scott stars as the titular character in the eight-episode series, which premiered Thursday, April 4, on Netflix. The Irish actor acts as “a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York” alongside Dakota Fanning and Johnny Flynn . Netflix’s official description of the series reveals that Ripley is “hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home,” adding that “Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
“He's not a reliable hero. So, you don't necessarily know if he's telling the truth at any particular time. He does terrible things,” Scott continued. “I have to find the, the soul within him. I think there's something about him that's very vulnerable. I love that about him because it brings out his real human side. He's not a natural born killer.”
Highsmith published her first crime novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, in 1955. In the years that followed, she wrote four subsequent books about the character. Before Scott’s miniseries, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law starred in the 1999 film adaptation, The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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