The new
Netflix show stars a number of familiar faces, including Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning, but it also features the child of a famous person. Sting’s child, to be precise – Eliot Sumner. Sumner, who is , is the child of the legendary frontman of The
police, and film producer Trudie Styler. is titled where a young man named Tom Ripley is sent to
Italy to persuade Dickie, a rich, trust-fund kid, to return to the family business. However (spoiler alert), Ripley ends up becoming obsessed with Dickie and kills him in order to assume his identity and take Dickie’s wealth and lifestyle for himself. Scott , which is . Many people have been asking if Mr Ripley is, in fact, gay: but . Eliot Sumner that it’s the “thematic combinations of envy, obsession, and fantasy” that bring people, themselves included, returning to the character of Ripley over and over again. “There’s something innately human about him. From his perspective, the world around him is out of reach, so he has to steal it. And I don’t think that I’m alone when I say in a strange way you are rooting for him to get away with it.” Sumner appears in just one episode of as Freddie Miles, a friend of the object of Ripley’s obsession, Dickie (Johnny Flynn). According to , Netflix’s content arm, Miles is considered “a foil to Ripley”. “Freddie is this posh boarding school guy living abroad who’s unapologetically well off, and most of all he’s Tom Ripley hates. I found that very, very fun to play,” Sumner told Tudum. This is one of Sumner’s first major acting roles, which they said is “a dream come true”, though they have appeared in Guy Ritchie’s and the
James Bond film . Sumner approached their audition for Miles very uniquely, playing it completely differently to the description of the character, which said that “he was a loud American”. Sumner instead “decided to make him a very observant, arrogant English person and see how that went”. “I really thought, it’s very nice of them to give me a shot, but I wasn’t going to get it,” Sumner explained. Sumner is on
Instagram, posting under the username . Many of their recent photos have been black-and-white, emulating the style of and posing with other cast members from the show. Sumner is not currently thought to be in a relationship. They previously dated society model Frankie Herbert, who is one of the few people to have walked in front of the late
Queen Elizabeth, but the couple split last year. Herbert is the granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Carnarvon and recently shared a photo of her kissing an . She previously came out as pansexual: “Being openly queer has allowed me to be loved to my fullest. Pansexual and proud, baby.” is streaming on Netflix now.