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Andrew Scott leads the cast of “Ripley,” the new Patricia Highsmith novel adaptation, premiering Thursday, April 4, on Netflix.

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Andrew Scott stars in “Ripley”

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By Dana Simpson 1999, when it was adapted Hollywood loves a charminto the five-time Oscar-nomiing sociopath, and for good nated feature film of the same reason. Divisive, morally name. Now, 69 years after ambiguous characters have a Ripley’s birth, Netflix makes way of getting under the skin its mark on the classic tale. of the audience members The eight-episode thriller and characters alike, staying series, “Ripley,” premieres within the fabric of each indiThursday, April 4, on Netflix. vidual like a stubborn stain. As those who have seen or As viewers try to sort out the read “The Talented Mr. Ripmotive behind the maniac, ley” already know, the story, morals are called into quesbased in the 1960s, revolves tion, boundaries are pushed around an enterprising but and — for better or for worse suspicious young man named — the most questionable Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott, events of the film often play “Fleabag”), who is hired by a on repeat in our heads. wealthy American industrialist Tom Ripley, who gives his to find his son, Dickie Greensurname to Netflix’s newest leaf (Johnny Flynn, “Emma,” series, was first created in 2020), and return him home 1955 by thriller novelist Pato assume his duties in the tricia Highsmith. While postfamily business. Little does humously seen as somewhat the elder Mr. Greenleaf know, of a divisive figure herself, Ripley has little to no intenHighsmith created Ripley to tion of bringing Dickie back guide her would-be bestsellstateside. ing novel, “The Talented Mr. As Netflix puts it: “Tom’s Ripley.” The St., novel spawned acceptance of the job is the 26 Chestnut WHAT four be- HEARfirst step into a complex life e, Pasequels • Suite (published 200 MATTERS MOST tween 1970 and 1991) and of deceit, fraud and murder.” 814-837-7475 grew to further acclaim in The highly stylized, black-

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and-white production marks leading man Scott’s first appearance since the sold-out West End stage production of “Vanya,” a modern take on Anton Chekov’s classic “Uncle Vanya.” Scott, who rose to fame as “the hot priest” in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s series “Fleabag,” can also be seen in the 2015 James Bond film “Spectre,” 2014’s biographical dramedy “Pride” and eight episodes of the Benedict Cumberbatch-led series “Sherlock,” to name a few. Flynn, meanwhile, plays Dickie, a spoiled young man who prefers to spend his time and money lounging at Italy’s beaches and cafes over working for the industrial empire he is tapped to inherit. Some of Flynn’s credits to date include roles as Rory Lomax in “The Dig” (2021), Dylan in the Netflix series “Lovesick” and Mr. Knightley in the 2020 film adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” while his most anticipated upcoming role is arguably that of late fellow

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actor Richard Burton (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” 1966) in National Theatre Live’s “The Motive and the Cue” (which, like Scott’s “Vanya,” is a London-based stage production). Joining Scott and Flynn for “Ripley” is former child star Dakota Fanning, who has made a name for herself in adulthood thanks to roles in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood” (2019), TNT’s “The Alienist” and Showtime’s “The First Lady.” In “Ripley,” Fanning portrays Marge Sherwood, Dickie’s love interest who is quick to suspect Tom of shady operations. Eliot Sumner (“The Gentlemen,” 2019), Pasquale Esposito (“Hotel Portofino”), Maurizio Lombardi (“The Name of the Rose”) and Margherita Buy (“Mia Madre,” 2015) also star alongside Kenneth Lonergan (“White Noise,” 2022) and Ann Cusack (“Grosse Pointe Blank,” 1997).

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