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WATCH: We’re obsessed with Andrew Scott in Netflix’s latest queer take on ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’
The Talented Mr. Ripley from esteemed author Patricia Highsmith (who also wrote Strangers On A Train and The Price Of Salt, which the movie Carol was based on), and then would appear again in multiple novels up through 1991’s Ripley Under Water.Then, a whole new audience met Ripley in Anthony Minghella’s acclaimed 1999 film of the same name, with Matt Damon in the titular role, conning his was into the life of spoiled heir Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) with more than a little homoerotic tension—and deadly consequences.Subscribe to our daily newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Now, the infamous character returns to the screen anew—with a throwback black-and-white look—in Netflix’s gorgeous miniseries, Ripley, written and directed by Steven Zaillian (HBO’s The Night Of).This time around, he’s played by the great Andrew Scott, the out actor fresh off of his career best work in in the romantic ghost story All Of Us Strangers (which was shamefully snubbed by the Oscars).Pegged more as an adaptation of Highsmith’s novel than a remake of the ’99 film, Ripley opens on our antihero as a grifter doing what he can to survive in 1960s New York City.
