Dakota Fanning wears a retro blue swimsuit while filming Ripley on the Amalfi Coast in Italy

The series has been in the works for almost two years.

And Dakota Fanning adapted to film Showtime’s Ripley on the Amalfi Coast in Italy on Wednesday afternoon.

The 27-year-old actress rocked a retro blue one-piece swimsuit as she bathed in the ocean while filming the drama series based on Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels.

Dakota’s strappy beachwear featured a white geometric pinstripe design throughout the suit, with small straps and a sweetheart neckline.

Her platinum blonde hair was parted in the middle and tied back into a loose ponytail with tendrils cascading down her back.

She frolicked in the cold water with a few friends off the coast of Atrani, where the water temperature hovers around 68 degrees in October.

Dakota then took a break from the shining sun under a sturdy umbrella as she covered herself in a white linen shirt with matching pants.

Oscar winner Steven Zaillian not only serves as a screenwriter on the production, but will also direct the entire first season in addition to serving as executive producer.

“Dakota Fanning is the perfect choice to play the deliciously complicated Marge against Andrew Scott’s Tom Ripley,” Amy Israel, Showtime’s executive vice president of scripted programming, told Variety earlier this year.

“She is an actress who brings intelligence and vulnerability to every part, with so many bubbles below the surface. We can’t wait to see her sink her teeth into the role of Steve Zallian’s Ripley.

Fleabag star Andrew Scott, 44, has been attached to the role of Tom Ripley, while Fanning will play Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy who begins to suspect Ripley’s motives when he shows up looking for her baby. friend Dickie Greenleaf, played by Johnny Flynn.

In the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley, directed by the late Anthony Minghella, starred Matt Damon as Tom Ripley with Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge and Jude Law as Dickie.