Andrew Scott said the process of filming one particular scene in Netflix’s Ripley was “extraordinary”. The Irish actor stars as the iconic titular character in the series and has received high praise for his performance.

Scott plays conman Tom Ripley, a down-on-his-luck grifter hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to urge his vagabond son to return home

For those who have not seen the series, spoilers lie ahead. For those who watched the series, they will be familiar with one particular scene in which we see Ripley commit a brutal murder.

In episode three,Tom Ripley takea Dickie out on a boat and hits him with the boat’s wooden oar to kill him. “It’s just an extraordinary sequence — and it wasn’t a day [of filming]. It was a really long period of time,” Scott told The Wrap.

“It was an action sequence by somebody who you wouldn’t, neither the character or the actor, associate with being an action hero. But nevertheless, that’s exactly what it is.”

He continued: “Just understanding the thought process behind that was really interesting. And to get all those things right, because audiences really, start to become fascinated and put themselves in the minds of the characters and what they might be thinking.

“To make the audience second-guess, I think to see the character failing and to see the character making mistakes, and the character just not being as sure-footed as we might see sometimes represented was really, really exciting. That’s something which we talked about..

Scott recently said he didn’t want to ‘overly diagnose’ Ripley when it came to the character’s sexuality.

He continued: “Just understanding the thought process behind that was really interesting. And to get all those things right, because audiences really, start to become fascinated and put themselves in the minds of the characters and what they might be thinking.

“To make the audience second-guess, I think to see the character failing and to see the character making mistakes, and the character just not being as sure-footed as we might see sometimes represented was really, really exciting. That’s something which we talked about.”