'It’s necessary for us to have stories that are dark. Art is about showing us who we are, not who we should be.' - AndrewScott
SCOTT: There is no real Batman! The pleasure is knowing the person is actually pretending to be somebody else. So surely, the idea that a gay person is pretending to be a straight person is even more fun. All things being equal, everybody should be allowed to play everything, but all things aren’t equal unfortunately, so that’s why representation is so important. But to be in the empathy game, and trying to imagine what it’s like to be in someone else’s shoes, is very honorable and necessary.
WHISHAW: You are a private person. How do you navigate that? Do you ever feel like you have to be a spokesperson or be banging a drum for a cause? Particularly as the world gets more insane and the problems mount up, do you ever think, “Should I be using this platform?” SCOTT: I’m hesitant to do that. I do have that question, sometimes. If I had a public Instagram, that might have some influence, but everyone has an opinion now, and it’s pretty clear that I feel that I have a responsibility to be an authentic artist, without sounding too lofty about it. The kind of actors I admire never really say anything about anything. But that was a different time to a certain degree, and there was something about being private before that was very respectable.
WHISHAW: Despite what you said earlier about how weird it is to make things with masks and social distancing, how are you findingSCOTT: It’s a hard one, because in our version, he’s a very lonely character. You see him on his own quite a lot. I find that difficult, and I find not having the actors around as much as I would like to be difficult. But it’s an extraordinary character.SCOTT: There’ve been various iterations of the character, some of which I’ve seen and some of which I’ve avoided.
SCOTT: We are dark. There’s a trend in drama at the moment to make things accessible and make the characters accessible. What’s their backstory? What’s wonderful about Tom Ripley is that you have no idea. You sometimes hear about his backstory but you’re a bit like, “Is this made up?” Sometimes the reason we feel unnerved by certain people is because we don’t know their backstory. It’s necessary for us to have stories that are dark. Art is about showing us who we are, not who we should be.
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