“I Retreat Against Calling Ripley A Villain”: Andrew Scott Rejects Comparisons Between Eponymous Netflix Character & The Notorious Jim Moriarty
deadline.comAndrew Scott has played many a villain down the years but in Netflix‘s Ripley he is trying to draw the line, and he has rejected comparisons with his BAFTA-winning turn as the evil Jim Moriarty in Sherlock.
Speaking on the BBC this morning, the All of us Strangers star said he will use the eight-episode TV series version of Patricia Highsmith’s novel to convince the audience that Ripley is so much more than a con man. “It does feel different [to playing Moriarty],” he told the Today program. “As Moriarty I felt like I was playing a villain and for some reason I retreat against calling Ripley a villain.
He’s an anti-hero and it’s up to me to make the audience know what it’s like to be Ripley, not to be a victim of Tom Ripley.
We should empathize with him. He is the protagonist in this.” Highsmith’s gift in her novel is to “make you root for him,” Scott added.
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