Andrew Scott has revealed the “really scary” challenge he had to take on while playing fictional serial killer Tom Ripley during a candid conversation with Jimmy Kimmel.
The Irish actor, 47, returned to the small screen as the lead star in the Netflix adaptation Ripley, which aired Thursday and has already earned rave reviews.
Talking about his demanding role, he revealed that what scared him was not taking on the role of a killer, but the fact that 15 percent of his performance was in Italian.
“It was really scary, because he would speak Italian so well,” the Fleabag favorite admitted.
“So I’m an Irishman playing an American who also speaks Italian, but I’m also an Irishman playing an American who imitates another American who speaks Italian,” he added, leaving host Jimmy baffled.
Andrew Scott has revealed the “really scary” challenge he had to take on while playing fictional serial killer Tom Ripley during a candid conversation with Jimmy Kimmel.
The Irish actor, 47, revealed that 15 per cent of his performance was in Italian while playing the demanding role in the new Netflix adaptation, which premiered on Thursday.
The All Of Us Strangers star also explained that he had an Italian coach teaching him because he had to speak fluently and master the accent.
‘You want those details to be correct. It’s for one’s own pride,’ she said.
Andrés plays in the A remake of Patricia Highsmith’s popular 1955 novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, a role previously played by Matt Damon and John Malkovich.
Set in the 1960s, Ripley is hired by a wealthy New Yorker to travel to Italy and convince his wayward son Dickie (played by Johnny Flynn) to return home.
Ripley makes her way into the luxurious world of the elite before resorting to deception and murder in a desperate attempt to keep her place at the table.
The Hollywood alum continued to show off his impeccable fashion sense as he donned a dog-tooth jacket for his appearance on the US talk show.
Andrew seemed in good spirits as he waved to a dedicated crowd of cheering fans.
The Specter star donned a white tank top underneath the stylish jacket and paired her look with faded denim.
She added white loafers and sported auburn-tinted retro sunglasses as she smiled.
“It was really scary, because he would speak Italian so well,” the Fleabag favorite admitted.
The Hollywood alum continued to show off his impeccable fashion sense as he donned a dogtooth jacket for his appearance on the American talk show.
He waved to a dedicated crowd of cheering fans.
The Hollywood alum appeared pleased and jovial, and didn’t seem to mind greeting some lucky fans.
He recently opened up to discuss more challenges the iconic thriller role required.
What makes Highsmith’s story so unique is that Ripley is the protagonist of the novel, Andrew said, despite being a serial killer, and encourages readers to see her humanity.
“The challenge was ‘How do we make the audience feel what it’s like to be Tom Ripley, instead of what we would normally do, which is feel like a victim of Tom Ripley,'” the actor said.
While promoting the series, Andrew said that what makes Highsmith “one of the great crime writers” is that sometimes you are “willing” for Tom to get his way, rather than simply seeing him as a villain.
The Sherlock star stopped to sign some autographs as a flock of fans climbed through the closed doors in an attempt to get closer to him.
He said: “He is the protagonist, not the antagonist, so he asks us to look at what is dark within ourselves.”
The 1917 star went on to say that humans choose to categorize perpetrators as “monsters” to “make us feel safer.”
“In reality, all of these things are perpetrated by human beings and we have to be able to somehow accept the very terrifying nature that people can make mistakes and be bad and inept and innocent and still do these terrible things,” he added. .
And I think that’s what’s so disturbing about the character. So he’s actually a deeply human character, but maybe not one we want to look at too much.”
The Fleabag favorite donned a white t-shirt under the stylish jacket.
Andrew added white loafers and retro dyed auburn shades.
The Sherlock star stopped to sign some autographs as a flock of fans climbed through the closed doors in an attempt to get closer to him.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List) wrote and directed the latest adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, following in the footsteps of the 1999 film starring Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow.
With a noir version, compared to the sumptuous visuals of the Hollywood film, critics have compared the Netflix version to Hitchcock in style and pacing.
Ava star John, 70, who previously played the title role in the 2002 film Ripley’s Game, returns to the world of Tom Ripley in a wildly different role, while the star-studded cast also includes Dakota Fanning, who plays Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy who begins to suspect Tom’s motives.
While Andrew was praised, some critics felt the supporting cast fell short with Evening StandardAnna Van Praagh decides that Dakota Fanning ‘can’t compete for a second with Gwyneth Paltrow’s impeccable Marge Sherwood, and Johnny Flynn is left dead on the side of the road compared to Jude Law’s portrayal of Dickie Greenleaf, a character who He lived perfectly. .’
However, the director’s images have left critics in awe of Carol Midgely’s The times noting that “it is so cinematic that it feels less like a television series and more like a very long movie”, declaring it “a completely hypnotic experience”.
Christopher Stephens of the Daily Mail writes: “This is not just television, it is a tribute to great directors of the 40s like Carol Reed and Alfred Hitchcock.”
Meanwhile, Andrew’s central performance has captivated early viewers, with the Irish actor being branded “mesmerising”.
Lucy Mangan by The Guardian writes in his five-star review that “Scott’s Tom is everything and nothing, and fascinating either way,” adding, “There’s magic at work here.”
But IndependentAdam White insists that Scott, who also serves as executive producer, “feels bad about this” and is comparable to an EastEnders baddie, looking “more like a lost Mitchell brother than a high-society interloper.”
Andrew plays the remake of Patricia Highsmith’s popular 1955 novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, a role previously played by Matt Damon and John Malkovich.
The star-studded cast also includes Dakota Fanning, who plays Marge Sherwood, and Johnny Flynn as Dickie.
Fans have also applauded Scott’s performance, as tasking X, previously, TwitterOn Wednesday night, mesmerized viewers wrote: ‘Ok, I’ve already worked two hours and I’m drinking a big cup of tea and watching the first episode of Ripley on Netflix and I’m here to tell you that and Andrew Scott are amazingly beautiful, strange and deeply disturbing, and you should see it;
‘The Ripley series is on Netflix today. Slow but intriguing… Scott is magnificent’; ‘A new Netflix series turns Andrew Scott into the definitive Tom Ripley’; “Saltburn?” Netflix said: Meet Ripley. We love a hustler!’
Scott has called Ripley “an important role to play,” and told her vanity fair that “it was very difficult for him mentally and physically.” That’s the truth”.
“I feel like you have to love and defend your characters, and your job is to say, ‘Why? What is that?’ You don’t play with the opinions, the previous attitudes that people may have about Tom Ripley.
“You have to dismiss all of that, try not to listen to them and say, ‘Okay, well, I have to have the courage to create our own version and my own understanding of the character.'”