The Talented Mr. Ripley - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[tom]

Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow would later appear together in Contagion (2011).

[norma]

Dickie's suicide note is dated 6 January 1959, director Anthony Minghella's fifth birthday.

[maureen]

The opera shown on the film is the end of Act II from Tchaikovsky's "Yevgeny Onyegin." In this particular scene, Lenski challenged his friend Onyegin for a duel over Olga, who had been engaged to Lenski at that time. Lenski was mortally wounded, and Onyegin departed Russia for a self-imposed exile.

[frederick]

Has been followed by other Ripley novel adaptations Ripley's Game (2002) and Ripley Under Ground (2005), in which the role of Tom Ripley was played by John Malkovich and Barry Pepper, respectively, although neither was made as a direct sequel to this film. Matt Damon appeared with Malkovich in Rounders (1998) and Pepper in Saving Private Ryan (1998). Pepper and Malkovich also appeared together in Knockaround Guys (2001).

[ray]

In 2018, Matt Damon had a brief cameo as a character named only "Redneck #2" in the movie Deadpool 2. Damon, who was unrecognizable under heavy prosthetic makeup, was credited not under his own name but as "Dickie Greanleaf," the name of Jude Law's character in The Talented Mr. Ripley whom Damon's character (Tom Ripley) murders and impersonates.