Kate Evans

He has had a difficult childhood, but I think he just doesn't, he's not comfortable in his own skin.

And I think that's very similar to Patricia Highsmith herself, wasn't comfortable in her own skin.

And I think with Ripley, he wants that, he loves this idea he can be someone else and reinvent himself.

And I think that's what motivates him more than anything else.

And there's sort of envy there in terms of he loves the finer things in life.

But I don't think what drives him, because, I mean, someone with his intellect could have stolen money to get the finer things in life.

You know, the idea that he doesn't want to steal money.

He wants to steal someone's persona.

To be someone else.

To be someone else.

I mean, I think the first murder, not well at all.

Dickie Greenleaf's murder I didn't think was done particularly well.

It was... I mean, later on, I know in each case Ripley tends to have to kill because someone's about to discover.

So it's not as though he plans this for weeks in advance.

He kills when someone's about to rumble him.

But with Dickie, I didn't quite buy it in the text.

And oddly enough, with the film...

The Miguela film.

I mean, they had it more, you know, when Dickie Greenleaf dies because it's more a crime of passion that Dickie Greenleaf realises that Tom Ripley has been lying to him and they have this argument where he belittles Ripley and Ripley just finally snaps.

And to me, I bought that a lot more than I did the way it's sort of portrayed in the book.