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Is Tom Ripley Gay?

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The question has challenged every adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s book, including the latest — and best — from Steven Zaillian.

ByMark Harris, a journalist and cultural historian. He is a regular contributor to New York Magazine.

Andrew Scott and Johnny Flynn in Steven Zaillian’s Ripley.Photo: Lorenzo Sisti/Netflix

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Is Tom Ripley gay? For nearly 70 years, the answer has bedeviled readers of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley, the story of a diffident but ambitious young man who slides into and then brutally ends the life of a wealthy American expatriate,as well as the four sequels she produced fitfully over the accompanying 36 years. It has challenged the directors — French, British, German, Italian, Canadian, American — who have tr

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NEW YORK – In new Netflix series “Ripley,”Andrew Scott plays one of pop culture’s most notorious scammers. But offscreen, the Irish actor is usually the one getting duped.

“I’ve fallen victim to fraud so many times,” Scott recalls with a sigh, seated on a couch in a tucked-away office in Union Square. On one occasion, “a woman got me on the street saying her son had been in an accident and she couldn’t acquire a train. I brought her to an ATM machine and gave her my phone number – what an idiot!”

He didn’t realize he’d been swindled until later that night, “when she called me drunk and laughing at 2 a.m. asking for more money. She was really good at acting!”

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“Ripley” (streaming Thursday) is based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated 1999 film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. The story follows a dude named Tom Ripley (Scott), who is hired by a shipping tycoon to travel to Italy and convince his son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny F

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In Ripley, we are asked a question that goes to the very heart of the gay exposure, where envy so often meets desire: Does he desire him? Or does he just wish to be him?

Andrew Scott stars in the latest adaptation of novelist Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley, last seen onscreen in the 1999 production of the equal name starring Matt Damon and Jude Law. The modern Netflix limited series, directed and written by Steven Zaillian, feels much darker than its predecessor—and not just because it is gorgeously shot in black-and-white. First, we notice a more weathered Tom Ripley than Damon’s, living in a dilapidated Recent York City apartment and making cash via a series of small-time scams. Then, he sneaks his way into the opportunity to travel to Europe in search of Dickie Greenleaf—a wealthy heir living off a trust fund on the Italian coast. Though his mission is to lure Dickie endorse to the Merged States, Tom instead becomes entranced by him: his handsome looks, his overpriced clothes, his learning of the arts, and the privilege that helps him glide through the world as he pleases. Tom wants it all.

Fresh from All of Us Strangers(2023), Andrew Scott plays the title role in Netflix’s new series Ripley, a miniseries based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. News publisher Out claimed Scott’s Ripley for gayness. However, Scott’s own aspirations are more ambiguous, saying “he’s a queer ethics, in the sense that he’s very ‘other’.”

In the novel, Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Dickie Greenleaf’s father to persuade him to appear home to America. However, once he arrives, Tom becomes obsessed with Dickie and his lifestyle. When Dickie rejects him, he kills him and steals his identity. And this is only the first of his murders.

Highsmith wrote Ripley as having an elusive sexuality. As the character Marge says in the book, “He may not be lgbtq+. He’s just a nothing, which is worse. He isn’t normal enough to have any kind of sex life.”

Each era since Highsmith’s novel has had its own screen version of Ripley, responding to its own sexual and moral times. Scott’s Ripley is different yet again: an enigma who is both compelling and frightening – connected to sexuality, but resistant to explanations, labels or pigeonholes.

Tom Ripley through the ages

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