ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Ripley star Dakota Fanning about the Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel.
“In the series, Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son Dickie Greenleaf to return home,” reads‘s synopsis. “Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud, and murder. Meanwhile, Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy, suspects darker motives underlie Tom’s affability.
I was very excited not to have to play somebody who was totally duped by him the whole time, to actually be able to kind of go toe-to-toe and, like you said, have all of that tension and the pleasantries where you’re saying something with a smile, but the intention behind it is like, “I hope I never see you again, and you leave forever.” That’s sort of how … they have a very “frenemy” relationship, I think. I loved it. And I love Andrew and I loved working with him.
I loved it. I mean, I think that’s the best part about this medium, that you have more time to go deeper with the characters and you get to really see details that you sometimes can’t fit into a two-hour film. So I know that was really important to Steve and a big draw for him. He wanted all of that time to be able to tell this story and to adapt Patricia Highsmith’s novel, and I certainly can’t imagine our interpretation any other way than how it is.
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