Dakota Fanning and Andrew Scott might play frenemies of their new present, but it surely’s nothing however love between the 2 film stars.
Speaking with ET’s Denny Directo from the premiere of their Netflix collection, Ripley, the Uptown Ladies actress, 30, and Fleabag star, 47, supplied equal reward for one another. The present — a brand new iteration of The Proficient Mr. Ripley novel — sees Scott because the titular character and Fanning as Marjorie “Marge” Sherwood.
The pair mentioned that regardless of their characters being at odds all through the eight-episode restricted collection, they might not have picked higher scene companions for the undertaking.
“Well, we are so lucky that we are friends in real life and got along so well,” Fanning instructed ET. “I think we have a very similar way of working and I just couldn’t have asked for a better person to get to work with. And he’s very unlike his character, thank goodness.”
She added, “He’s just such a brilliant actor. There’s nothing he can’t do. Yeah, it was a real pleasure.”
Scott — who obtained his massive break within the BBC Sherlock collection starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman — echoed Fanning’s doting feedback, saying that even with an err of hostility between their characters, they nonetheless had probably the most enjoyable two actors may have collectively.
“Dakota is one of the most fun people you could possibly encounter,” the actor mentioned. “We had a great time having slightly icy, thin smile scenes with each other.”
The 1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith follows Scott’s character, a New York Metropolis grifter employed by the daddy of Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to deliver his son residence to the USA and enlist him within the household enterprise. Issues take a darkish flip when Ripley finds himself having fun with the approach to life a bit an excessive amount of and decides he is not going to let something get in the best way of his newfound happiness and freedom.
For the brand new model, the present’s creators opted to present the traditional story — which has been instructed quite a few occasions earlier than together with in a 1999 movie starring Matt Damon, Jude Regulation and Gwyneth Paltrow — a darker and extra sinister spin that may go away the viewers in suspense. The collection can also be set within the Sixties and is in black and white, giving it a movie noir high quality.
Watch the trailer for Ripley, which premieres on Netflix on April 4, within the participant beneath:
Throughout her interview with ET from the Ripley premiere, Fanning additionally commented on the upcoming anniversary of her movie with Denzel Washington, Man on Fireplace, which celebrates 20 years since its launch on April 21. The actress mentioned that she is honored to have been a part of the undertaking and to have lasting relationships together with her co-stars from that film to this present day.
“I’m lucky to know all of the Washington family and his youngest daughter [Olivia Washington] is one of my closest friends, so I get to be a part of their family and special occasions, which is such a special thing,” she mentioned. Fanning attended New York College alongside Olivia within the early 2010s.
The Struggle of the Worlds actress and Washington additionally simply reunited on one other undertaking, The Equalizer 3, which premiered in theaters in August. On the time, Washington, 69, and Fanning gushed equally about one another to ET whereas selling the movie.
“Getting to work with Denzel again 20 years later was so special and [I] never expected that to happen and it was such a thrill that it did,” Fanning instructed ET on Wednesday. “I’m very lucky to know them all.”
In the summertime, Washington shared that he was simply as impressed by Fanning now as a grown lady as he was after they first labored collectively for Man on Fireplace in 2004.
“She knows how to hit the ball back over the net,” he mentioned on the time. “Sky’s the limit for her.”
If the sky shouldn’t be the restrict for the veteran actress, it is a minimum of the highest of a New York penthouse. In December, Selection reported that Fanning and her sister, Elle Fanning, had bought the rights to Paris Hilton’s memoir and have been adapting it right into a TV collection alongside A24. The deal — made by means of the sisters’ manufacturing firm Lewellen Footage — is believed to have been within the six-figure vary.
ET requested Fanning — who will function an government producer on the collection — what attracted her to the memoir and made her fascinated with bringing it to the small display, to which she had a blunt however utterly cheap three-word response.
“Well, it’s Paris,” Fanning mentioned on the Ripley premiere.
No phrase on writers, administrators or stars for the collection.
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