Andrew Scott won high critical praise last year on the big screen for Searchlight’s All Of Us Strangers. And virtually at the same time he slayed London audiences with his on stage performance in Vanya, a wildly original take on Uncle Vanya in which he played all eight roles. For his efforts he became the first actor in a single year to not only win the Critics Circle Theatre Award for Vanya, but also the Film Critics Circle Award for All Of Us Strangers.
And now he is getting some of the best reviews of his career and lots of Emmy buzz for his performance in Ripley, the eight part Netflix limited series from Oscar winning filmmaker Steve Zaillian. Although it is a well known property starting with Patricia Highsmith’s books as well as the 1999 movie, The Talented Mr. Ripley, this is an extraordinary new take on the character that Scott makes his own in shocking new ways, not the least of which is that the whole thing was shot in stunning black and white by Oscar winning cinematographyer Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood). The series has once again made Scott the center of conversation, something this veteran British star is used to from such previous appearances as the priest aka “hot priest” in Fleabag, as Jim Moriarty in Sherlock, plus mermorable turns in the 007 Spectre, the WWI film 1917, and numerous other portrayals on stage including Hamlet.
We talk about all of this and more in our conversation for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side.
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