Elizabeth Debicki Talks Ripley Stars Jude Law, Matt Damon at Met Gala

It’s two weeks after Elizabeth Debicki attended the Met Gala. She’s now in Los Angeles for Emmy campaigning for her work as Princess Diana on “The Crown.”

I meet her Netflix’s FYC pop-up in Hollywood for quick chat before she takes part in a panel discussion with “The Crown” creator Peter Morgan. We grab a couple of seats in the “Ripley” room. “I’m bummed I couldn’t be in it,” Debicki says of the streamer’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 crime novel, “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” “Not that anyone asked.”

But then she suddenly remembers the Met Gala. “I sat in between Jude Law and Matt Damon,” Debicki says. “At that point, one margarita in, I thought, “Oh, my God. I’m in a Ripley sandwich.”

She did not, however, share her thought with the original “Ripley” actors.

“I had so much fun,” Debicki says of Anna Wintour’s annual museum fundraiser. “I’ve been before and I’ve had less fun. Maybe I’m older and wiser and I thought, ‘Fuck it, I’m here with a big dress and big wig on, I might as well have a nice time.’”

As Debicki campaigns for Emmy love, it’s also bittersweet because it means the end of her time with “The Crown.” “It’s been a slow moving away from it,” she says. “I’ve taken my treasures from it. It’s twofold. On a personal level, I’ve learned a lot from playing that character and as an actor it was a hugely terrifying…