Johnny Flynn said it was “fantastic” to be killed on “Ripley” — though his character Dickie Greenleaf might disagree.
The English actor joined his costars in Italy for pre-production and rehearsals on Steve Zelen’s Netflix series, but Flynn flew back home when the cameras started rolling. Costar Andrew Scott and others began with scenes later in the series, after Dickie’s death in episode 3, and when Flynn returned he was supposed to kick things off with the ill-fated boat sequence.
“I love the technology, the technical aspects of filmmaking, and I’ve never been a part of a series that’s too technical,” Flynn said in an interview with Zillian and the cast after an early screening of episodes 1-3 in New York. said in the panel discussion. City “That was like one of the first things we did because we had stuff in the tank and then they knew what they needed to get out to sea. So we put that in a real boat to deal with that as well. were
Large parts of the boat sequence — some of it in a green-screen tank, some in the ocean — required Flynn to lie motionless as Dickie’s corpse (“When I started moving, everybody was yelling at me was”) with Scott. But even after Dickie’s death, the role becomes heavy. He dies at the end of Episode 3 of Eight, but his murder is what sets everything else in motion.
“I really knew I was going to die, because we did it,” Flynn said of filming the rest of his scenes. “It actually gave me a kind of beauty, [exquisite] The inevitability of the death aspect or the duration of the main part of my journey through the story. And because the story is from Tom’s point of view… it’s almost that sacrificial thing—this totemic moment in the story is the big thing that everything revolves around. It was good to be aware of it.
The end of Dicky’s life does not mark the end of his appearances in the series, even beyond being killed off everywhere. Tom begins to have dreams and visions of Dickie’s body, floating on the surface or his eyes opening underwater, “dreaming and imagining what I’m in right now.” Those sequences were actually filmed in the ocean, with underwater cameras and divers pulling the feline up and down between pulley systems.
“At one point, someone came up to me and was like, ‘I think we can do this with AI,’ and I went ‘Thanks FUCK!'” Flynn said of his flamboyant moves from the surface. Mimicking said to the laughing crowd. “I’ll come up for air and they’ll go ‘And back down!’ And then last year when the strikes happened, one of the points was this. [AI taking over], I was just going ‘No, AI is a good thing!’ Sometimes.”
“Ripley” is now streaming on Netflix.