“So you gonna go have another beer in this beautiful light? Let’s see what the light looks like.” Andrew Scott moves over to the window. It’s early evening.
Early summer. We’ve been talking for more than an hour at Sunset Studios, where Netflix has set up an Emmys FYC space. To be clear, Scott hasn’t been drinking.
Maybe later. He’s going to be participating in a panel for “Ripley,” the streamer’s acclaimed adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s crime novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley” in which he plays the striving, cunning psychopath of the title.
Me? I’m availing myself of the bar that’s already open. The Dublin-born actor has visited Los Angeles eight times already this year, and while he loves hiking the canyons and swimming in the Pacific, the thing about the city that he finds extraordinary is the quality of light this time of day, the last hour before the sun sets over the ocean or, in the direction we’re looking right now, the Hollywood Hills. “When you go for a walk when the day is over in L.
A., there’s nothing like it,” Scott says. “And I know people don’t walk a lot here and people definitely think I’m .
..” He pauses, searching for the right word.
“Like, almost mad . But I walk a lot here. I like a good walk.
You need nature. You just need it.” There’s one other thing Scott needs right now.
Maybe needs is a bit strong. But as he made the rounds promoting his Emmy-nominated lead actor turn in “Ripley,” Scott took eve.