Is ripley gay

Andrew Scott’s new eight-part Netflix series Ripley has dropped, but, according to the All of Us Strangers star, the jury is still out on whether the murderous scammer is in fact gay. Tom Ripley, aka The Talented Mr Ripley, is a chameleon of sorts – a scam artist who shifts and changes according to the grift at hand, not to mention his own dark impulses.

“He appreciates good looks in other men, that’s true. First thing’s first: Tom Ripley is not “gay.” At least, not according to Highsmith herself, who once confusingly asserted that Ripley “appreciates good looks in other men” but couldn’t. Her spirit is so alive in me in the immediate aftermath of her death.

In , Anthony Minghella made him gay in The Talented Mr. Ripley. His flashes of rage — forcing him, later, to methodically dispose of multiple corpses — exist for Scott as a sort of frustrated creative impulse. The series was a crucial test for Scott, who, at 47, has proven himself a shape-shifter.

In the book, Ripley's sexuality is ambiguous. I think it was a series of unfortunate events. I come from a place where the sky is normally like this. Talking about his mother is a way of keeping her close. Patricia Highsmith did deny that Ripley was gay but that he didn't have a sexuality, he'd sleep with anything as long as it served his agenda.

Speedo-clad Damon romped through the Italy of your dreams; the baggily attired Scott staggers through a nightmare. Some believe that he is as much to credit for the title of the album as the men Swift sings about. In fact, he has a direct line to the queen of such matters. Scott can relate.

Minghella asserted that Ripley’s ‘pathology is not explained by his sexuality’, yet he punishes Ripley through his gayness when he has him kill his lover. And sometimes it could just be amicable. But Scott is perhaps being modest. Tom Ripley doesn’t really seem to give a lot of thought to whether or not he is gay or whom he’d like to have sex with.

But if you grew up on an island where colorless skies are the norm, it might feel familiar. And yet Scott makes for a notably older Tom Ripley — a character written by Highsmith to be just past college age. More tortured, over a longer timeline. I’m not. So what would it feel like to play a tamped-down sociopath?

Scott quickly walked away. But he’s married in later books. “I don’t think Ripley is gay,” she said — “adamantly,” in the characterization of her interviewer. Sometimes it could be sexual. And yet Scott resists the idea that the story is solely one for gay viewers: He remarks that just today, he received a note from a friend who watched with his wife, and was moved.

I think his sexuality is elusive to him. Sometimes it could be fraternal. What I was taught was the idea of being authentically yourself. Here, though, Tom seems repulsed by Dickie, even as he admires his lifestyle and easy way of being. And I totally accepted his apology.

It doesn’t even seem to cross his mind because he is too preoccupied with figuring out how to get the life that people like Dickie have. No one knows the. Scott, thus far quick-witted and voluble, has begun to weigh his words carefully. In fact, it excites him, and he wants to embrace how he can make it personal.

In truth, he was a sociopath. Scott is willing to go a bit further. But I got an apology from the journalist. Scott has brought up his mother a few times before I get the chance to offer my condolences.