July 3, 2001
Il Mattino
Dougray Scott hero of film produced by rock star  
(translated via Systransoft)
by Titta Fiore

TAORMINA. Difficult to imagine Mick Jagger producing intricate films of espionage, a passionate reader of history books, upset collector of he blots some from war. Nevertheless directed Dougray Scott, hero of the spy-story from Michael Apted who marks the debut of the rockstar in the world of the production, "Enigma", assures to have found in the vulcanic leader of the Rolling Stones the more delicious head, affable, mild of the world. "Mick is a fantastic person, a cultured and sweet man, now he has little interest in being in the spotlight", he says. "The history of the Enigma code, used by the Germans during the second world war and decrypted by a group of English mathematicians, fascinated him to such point convinceed him to buy the rights of the novel by Robert Harris. And with Victoria Pearman and Lorne Michaels, the creator of the famous series TV "Saturday Night Live", he has taken it to the screen with the enthusiasm of a professional of the cinema".

Seductive villian in Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible 2", actor of theatre with the director of "American Beauty", Sam Mendes, Scott is well-known. After to have acted for Apted a genius of the mathematics to the taken ones with a double enigma, that one of a thought code of war inviolable, and that one of the love not exchanged again for a mysterious blond woman, in these days he is filming with Liliana Cavani a thriller  ipirato to a book of Patricia Highsmith connected to the "Talent of Mr Ripley", to the flank of John Malkovich: film's titled "Ripley' s Game" and is concurring to it, between the other, to know Italy far and wide, from Asolo to Rome.

Also it, like its character, is gotten passionate of equations and algorithms, mister Scott?
"Not at all, in order to decrease to me in the part with one sure credibility I have studied the necessary rudiment of mathematics to decrypt the codes and have made long searches on Bletchley Park, most secret British Station X where one group of linguist, engineers, scientists and experts of cruciverba tried to decipher the messages Germans. Moreover, I have learned to use the machine Enigma and also to transmit with the alphabet Vices ".

All in all, would be a perfect James Bond...
"Actors do not forget the roles we learn in order to make a film in a hurry. It is the beauty of our trade ".

Bletchley Park has become a museum?
"Until 1975 the existence of that place had been one of the better guarded secrets of the second world war. Today they are remained in feet i sheds, the inside is destroyed. But I have stopped myself to visit for hours, I wanted to pick the spirit of the time".

Of the second world war it has been said all. Which is the aspect more interesting than " Enigma "?
"The parallel between the certainties of the mathematics and the destabilizing force of the beauty. Tom, my character, believes to comprise the life because it understands the numbers. But fortunately the men, and the women, are much more complicate you than an equation. In the fourties, they are happened terrible things and at the same time moving. People were simple and heroic, able sopportare inexpressible suffering, always with the hope of a better future. Me she would be piaciuto it are to us ".

How has been its encounter with Liliana Cavani?
"She had seen me act in theatre, and told me that only I could have been its protagonist. Naturally it made me curious".

Can "Ripley's Game" be defined as the continuation of the "Talent of Mr. Ripley"?
"There is no comparison between the films: to begin with, Ripley is a man of 50 years, Matt Damon was a boy. And it seems to me that film by Minghella had been criticized just for this. All I can say about the story is there is a homicide and a character ill with leukaemia".

Your plans?
"I would want to co-produce a film on Cromwell. But it will take a 23 million dollars enterprise to make it to take off ".