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Helen Mirren and Alden Ehrenreich on Playing Tom Ripley and His Creator Patricia Highsmith

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Helen Mirren and Alden Ehrenreich on Playing Tom Ripley and His Creator Patricia Highsmith

That was my favorite takeaway when I recently spoke with the Academy Award winner for her new film A Talent for Murder, which she stars in alongside Alden Ehrenreich (Weapons, Solo: A Star Wars Story).

Directed by Anton Corbijn, the film is an adaptation of the 2014 Joanna Murray-Smith play Switzerland, which focuses on a fictional story about real-life author Patricia Highsmith. Highsmith, who died in 1995, is best remembered for creating the con-man serial killer character Tom Ripley, the main character in The Talented Mr. Ripley and four additional novels by Highsmith. In real life, Highsmith was regarded as a mysterious and controversial figure, and while Mirren’s performance is based on the real Highsmith, the film portrays a fictionalized version of the author who meets a young man named Edward Ridgeway (Ehrenreich) from a New York publishing house trying to get her to write her sixth Ripley book. Ehrenreich also plays Tom Ripley himself as the film chronicles the dual narrative of Highsmith and the publisher, as well as the Ripley story they are crafting.

Highsmith is portrayed as rather eccentric in the film (as she was in real life), which includes the author having a love for knives and guns. Ridgeway even gifts her a knife early in the story, which Highsmith uses at various times throughout the film. So, when Mirren and Ehrenreich joined Polygon for an interview, my first question was how comfortable she was with wielding the knife.


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