Ripley Q & A with Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn, Eliot Sumner, & Steve Zaillian 

Steps and steps and more steps! I truly loved every second of that series except the steps.

A gobsmacking experience.So much such! I was traumatized by every actor's ways. At one point the overwhelming magnificence seemed to be aggressing me and becoming as menacing as the characters. Whew!

As Italian I totally agree!!!

The Italian actors were all first-rate! I especially would love to see more of Mauricio Lombardi. Simply amazing. His deadpan expression when the witness said his dog was also named Enzo was priceless.

Yeah! I was wondering how Italians might view! For me, with 1000s color stuff on Italy, too much, I thought the B&W really immense. Woe, Caravaggio, Venezia, Palermo....it made me want to get on a flight to Italia pronto.

Should have looked at photographs a bit sooner though

Yes this actor was my most favorite

Yes, absolutely stunning 👍

Yes insane❤️

Best I have ever seen

The scene when he sits down to talk with the bystander named Enzo and telling the detective his dogs name was Enzo too was incredible

Limited TV series are not accepted for Oscar nominations. The Emmys are designed for that.

@@philmickelsonscalves7585 he told someone that his wife was from Cortina and later on he told someone else that his wife was from Atrani. He may have been trying to make the interviewee comfortable so the would divulge more information.

He never said to see the photo of Recherd 😃😄😄😄🤬🤬🤬

@@williamgardiner2010 As are the BAFTAs!! They will have had plenty of time to consider this drama for next year's nomination and also they'd better not overlook this drama on so many fronts particularly Andrew Scott's acting.

the cat was so good!! then its owner told him no more mice!!

umm... purr-fect. :) Had to.

And the goat with its head cocked quizzically aside.

Best coment ever! The cat has a name... I think it's Lucio. He definitely deserves an award. He's the only one who really gets Ripley! Think about it ... a cat! That says sooo many things!! Zaillian is a #genius

Oscar For Julio ✨🏆🐈✨

Definitely my favorite part of the show. Italian is a beautiful language and felt like I learned a bit too, I speak very basic Spanish and seeing similarities between love languages is always cool to me.

I loved that too and very indicative of the times, before globalism, you’re expected to speak Italian

Yes, the Italian front desk clerks, housekeepers, detectives, etc. added so much to the movie and the storyline. It wouldn't have been as good without them, imo.

You know what I didn't even think of this but you're totally right - it's so much more immersive as a result!

Agree!

@@tedtamada Agreed 100%

Agree. I've watched it twice. Was amazing except for casting a woman as Freddie. That was laughable.

@@angelcitygirl Me too. Watched it twice straight through. The black & white photography ... Stunning, as was all the acting .... except within 2 seconds I was 'Why is Freddie Miles being played by a woman?'.

@@susannahvernon-hunt722 It's the pandering to the weird world we live in and casting a famous person's child who has no talent. ODD times.

@@angelcitygirl So true. Insanely odd!

Exactly!

O Lúcio foi a grande Maravilha bela que faltou nesse encontro. Eu o amei desde o primeiro flame da Série. ✨🐈✨

Lucio forever!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😀✨LUCIO! 🐱🐈🌟

Absolutely. The series really shifts into high gear with his entry into the story (Episode 6). His scenes with Andrew Scott's Ripley are particularly gripping.

I agree. Adding an androgenous character to the mix created an extra layer of menace to the personality of Freddie while opposing Tom so that the audience is left a little more confused as to who to root for when they clashed.

@@Kitiwake Dakota Fanning and Johnny Flynn know nothing about The King Bees, Free Festivals, Cane Hill, mother figures, etc.

Love that cat!!

Lucio can see everything!

Oh for me was the worst

Casting a woman as a man was a joke. But then when Sting is your father, you can be a horrible actress and still get cast. Ludicrous.

​@@angelcitygirlLike Bronny James. 😂

Eliot was incredible, the character had so much charisma.

@@angelcitygirl Would any of us?

But she didn't and she can't act.

@@angelcitygirl Disagree.

@@jackhersh1 that's cool. You can think she's a good actor. I do wonder where she would be without her super famous father. But we'll never know.

Flynn is an Irish name. But in large part due to the British you wish so he is, causing such calamitous conditions in Ireland over the centuries, the Flynn name can be readily identified as part of the Irish diaspora. So John, Patrick, Vivian Flynn was born in South Africa and moved to London.

😅😅I agree! It was kind of obvious that he was same person ! How couldn’t the detective have noticed?

It's theatrical. Sometimes males play female roles. It's the idea that he's in disguise however the audience can still relate to who he is. Not necessarily that they couldn't make him look unrecognizable if they didn't want to

That scene differs somewhat from the book (because they wanted to bring in the Caravaggio lighting theme), but it is faithful in spirit to how Highsmith wrote it. Although Ripley made some serious blunders along the way, he also caught a couple of very lucky breaks that allowed him to evade capture.

Agreed

Have you been there? There are stairs

@@tonywhite5485 I was born in Rome 😂

I saw the stairs as a symbol for his will to be part of the high society and at the same time as the symbol for the laborious and hard way to get there (I particularly liked the realism of the aftermath of the murders, especially the difficult aspect of it and the length of it).

The difficulty with the stairs reminded me of Tom's difficulty with both murders. In both cases, Dickie's and Freddie's, Tom runs into so many issues (e.g. the boat nearly killing him, and having to drive all the way back to Freddie after "disposing" of him, to retrieve the passport). The inspector also struggles with the stairs, in much the same way as at stages of his investigation, it turns into a slog where he can't get anywhere (e.g. frustrating phone call in French to Tunisia). This would seem to comment on the clash between the Hollywood-style fantasy we expect of how things will go, vs. the reality. Murders in real life do not go smoothly, in the way they are depicted in fiction, and instead there are all sorts of errors and ways of thwarting yourself as you collide with reality. I also think there is a degree to which in Act 1, Atrani is presented in the film as a kind of "heaven", like a place touching the clouds, compared to the subterranean Hell that Tom is escaping from in New York (I'm thinking of the Hitchcock-style backing-up of the shower drain with the water going black at his feet). Atrani by comparison is like an Olympus or something, where Gods live - that is, the insanely rich and removed from real-world concerns, like Dickie + Marge. So for Tom to climb from "Hell" all the way up up up to join them, to attempt to walk among them, it's fitting that it is a dizzying climb, he gets winded and drained of all his mortal energy lol (This kind of struggle to acclimatise is also a great way of showing the fish out of water protagonist leaving behind the world of Act 1 and crossing the threshold into the alien world of Act 2, and later we have contrast to show Tom's development, once he is able to climb the stairs like Dickie without any issue, showing us how he has learned how to integrate into the upside-down world of Act 2) Inspector gets winded too - contrasting his practicality and real-world nature with the "head in the clouds" and removed from all practical real-world concerns life of Marge + Dickie, the upper crust, who do not need to have jobs or be worried about real life.

Freddie said he’d bring The Police 🥁

I have to say the disguise scene reminded me of Rochester disguising himself as a fortune-teller woman in 'Jane Eyre' lol The director withheld the "reveal" shot of what Tom looked like, and I have to confess me and my friend who I watched this with burst out laughing. I think the very large wig did it. Unintentionally very comedic moment.