The Proficient Mr. Ripley multiverse was alive and properly when Andrew Scott and Jude Regulation crossed paths on the 2024 Met Gala.
Regulation, 51, and Scott, 47, walked the pink carpet collectively alongside Donatella Versace on the Monday, Might 6, occasion. Each actors have been dressed by the Versace designer for the gala the place the costume code was a “Backyard of Time,” primarily based on the museum’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Vogue” Costume Institute exhibit.
Scott rocked a sleeveless black shirt and matching trousers that he paired with a black vest with gold buttons. He accented his look with a gold necklace. Regulation opted for a extra basic look as he donned a tux with a bowtie. Versace, 69, dazzled alongside the boys in a mint inexperienced floor-length robe.
Whereas Regulation and Scott haven’t labored collectively on display, they share a connection because of The Proficient Mr. Ripley. Regulation starred alongside Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow within the movie adaptation of the 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel of the identical identify. Within the 1999 movie, Regulation portrayed Dickie Greenleaf, a wealthy and spoiled playboy whom Tom Ripley (Damon) should persuade to return dwelling. Regulation acquired an Academy Award nomination for the position.
20 years after the Oscar-nominated movie premiered, Scott was forged because the lead in a TV collection primarily based on the novel. Whereas Scott took over Damon’s character, Johnny Flynn portrayed a brand new model of Regulation’s position. Ripley dropped on Netflix in April with eight episodes. Regardless of the present and the film being primarily based on the identical supply materials, the tasks should not linked.
“Steve Zaillian’s, in some ways, couldn’t be farther from Anthony [Minghella’s],” Regulation stated to Leisure Weekly after watching the collection for himself. “It’s very attention-grabbing to see what scenes and threads nonetheless come to the floor, even when they’re very totally different stylistically and of their pacing.”
Regulation added that it was “rewarding and attention-grabbing to observe” the story from “a brand new perspective.”
“I’m having fun with it. How can one not? It’s such nice materials. You’re in nice fingers with great actors, and it’s such an attention-grabbing character,” he gushed to the outlet. “Each variations replicate the director in some ways. One is visible, colourful, and romantic. The opposite is sort of forensic and extra sinister. Movie, to me, typically displays the particular person on the helm of the digicam.”
Forward of the premiere, Scott opened up concerning the “epic journey” he took whereas enjoying the infamous con man.
“He’s not a dependable hero. So, you don’t essentially know if he’s telling the reality at any specific time. He does horrible issues,” Scott stated in an interview with emmy journal revealed in April. “I’ve to seek out the soul inside him. I believe there’s one thing about him that’s very susceptible. I really like that about him as a result of it brings out his actual human facet. He’s not a natural-born killer.”