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Why Andrew Scott Needed ‘An Awful Lot of Stamina’ to Star in 'Ripley'


Us Weekly exclusively reveals Andrew Scott’s emmy magazine cover, in which he reveals why he needed ‘an awful lot of stamina’ to play Tom Ripley

In Us Weekly ’s exclusive first look at Scott’s emmy profile, he reveals how challenging it was to play author Patricia Highsmith ’s fictional con man, first made famous in her 1955 novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley. Netflix’s official description of the series reveals that Ripley is “hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home,” adding that “Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.” “It was important not to diagnose the character with lazy assumptions,” he told emmy during the interview, noting that there was “a lot of speculating about Tom” in terms of his sexuality and mental state.

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