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This is FRESH AIR.
I'm David Biancooli.
Today's guest actor, Andrew Scott, got noticed by many American TV viewers because of his role in the second season of the British comedy series Fleabag.
He played the so called hot priest who was torn between his vow of celibacy and his attraction to a woman who loves him.
Before that, Scott got rave reviews in another British series that made it to the U.S. sherlock, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes.
Andrew Scott played the famed detective's nemesis Moriarty.
In the UK he starred in several acclaimed stage productions, including plays by Shakespeare and Chekhov.
Terry spoke with Andrew Scott last year, and the reason we're returning to the interview is because he's been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award for his starring performance in the 2024 Netflix series Ripley.
The SAG Awards ceremony is Sunday night.
Ripley is based on the Patricia Highsmith Novel the talented Mr. Ripley, the first of several books about Tom Ripley, a con man with no conscience.
He's a cold blooded opportunist who most probably is a sociopath.
Matt Damon played ripley in a 1999 movie version, but the Netflix version, written and directed by Steve Zaillian, is an even bigger and better adaptation.
It was beautifully photographed in various scenic cities and Andrew Scott as Ripley carried almost every scene with a sense of mystery, magnetism and maybe even a touch of madness.
As the Netflix version begins, Ripley is scraping by on small time hustles when a wealthy man tracks Ripley down, offers him an unusual proposition.
The man believes that Ripley was a close college friend of the man's son Dickie, and he offers to pay Ripley to go to Italy, visit Dickie at the villa where he's living a layabout life with his girlfriend and persuade him to return home to the States.
Even though Ripley's friendship with Dickey was much more distant than the father presumed, Dickey accepts the assignment, but when he gets to Italy and the villa, he wants it all for himself.
The home on the beach, the fine art on the walls, Dickie's expensive watches and finely tailored clothes, he begins plotting a way to assume Dickie's identity and step into his life.