um i remember thinking this was such a big turning point in my career and it it ended up changing my
life so i was right to think that way um so yeah i'll never forget what that feeling was
hey jamie such a pleasure today how are you doing i'm all right you you win best
prettiest background i think thank you so much that is the nicest thing ever
you um i just screened the taurus and oh my god i was just like i need more i need more it is
so captivating i mean you play a man who sort of his world is turned upside down because he can't
you know remember who he was where did you go creatively as an actor to bring this to life
yeah it's cool it's interesting because usually you have like uh
you know offered to you and presented to you for an audience and certainly as an actor when you're
reading a script for the first time you're sort of given an insight into the world of someone and
you see their family life and you see the vocation they have and you start to get a good sense of who
this person is and build your character around that but with this who denied all of that and
like you just become like an audience member and it's sort of revealed to you over the course of
the scripts who this guy is why he was where he was at the beginning when we first see him and
it all starts to get pieced together so you're sort of building that character
through what you're being what has been revealed to you so it's like an interesting process
it's different to what i'm sort of used to um but i guess you're trying to play as sincere as
possible in terms of as those these um these uh aspects of his life are revealed to the
to him you're playing them as sincerely as possible in terms of like you are acting like you
are hearing these for the first time and responding in a way that you sort of naturally
would because some of them are pretty jarring and some of them are pretty um pretty ugly in terms of
like what is revealed to him from his past you know so i think trying to play those things in
the moment as best you can was was my approach to you're awake sir can you tell me your name
you've got like amnesia yeah that is awesome and definitely i mean speaking of sincerity the idea
of you know our lives changing as much as we know it was something we all experienced last year
during the pandemic did you maybe draw on some of that when you were bringing it to life
i remember there was a scene where you know the crash has happened and you're sort of
looking around and i'm like was this what it was like to come back to set after you know
a year of madness yeah it was a bit like that you know i i was lucky i got to shoot a movie
called belfast that came out uh that we started we were the first we were the first production
to start shooting in the uk in in a cobia era i guess um and particularly for that one there was
a sense of like how do we do this again but also like we're so lucky to be doing this you know
coming at a time where nobody knew where the next job was coming from
every production was being cancelled shut down put on hiatus you know there wasn't a lot of
sort of purposeful activity in the industry um uh so it was very frightening time you know so
to be able to have worked at all in that time because i know a lot of actors
didn't and they were didn't get the opportunity to it's also got a lot of actors who also were
keeping down other jobs as you know waiters and waitresses and bar staff and all kinds of
call centers all kinds of stuff a lot of that stuff was closed down too so murky time you
know to to be in this this game um so i felt very privileged and then to go to australia to do this
where kobut was kind of not as bad a thing as it was in in in the uk and ireland at that time and
you know um felt again really grateful actually to be somewhere where you weren't having to wear
masks and work the day to day of living with nothing like what would come from here so um
yeah there was that sort of um lucky to be you know healthy and and safe i guess and working and
you know i think the man has a bit of that when he uh first emerges that he's lucky to be alive and
relatively healthy but then everything's revealed to him it's so dark as to why you find himself in
that place that should turn to his head i'm glad she brought up belfast because i was going to make
a little reference to it i mean we saw you singing in that film and also we also saw you
singing in this when you were singing along to the radio before the you know big big event happened
so yeah stop singing jamie so when are you going to be in this upcoming musical
when is it coming um but funny enough i was meant to do a musical um no way yeah i was
i was meant to do musical it got announced and everything it was all going to happen and then
was um um it was uh it's the opera carmen they're doing a sort of updated uh
um version of that for film um actually paul maskel ended up doing it from normal people
um who'd be much better than me i'd imagine and younger and more handsome and
more in demand but uh uh so i i sort of nearly nearly did one yeah i find myself singing i think
i think i'm right saying certainly four jobs in a row i've sang in maybe even five so it's becoming
a bit habitual um and i don't know why that is you can go years and years without singing and
anything and then suddenly you find yourself singing a bit but all different forms you know
all all very different ways of doing it and and definitely in the tourists it's it's it's it's its
own thing and it's probably the most relatable one in the tourist because we've all done that
where we're singing in the car thinking we're quite well or like not really been able to hit
the notes and then not really know what the lyrics are i think no you were hitting the notes jamie
well i think we were purposely trying to make it that it was out of my range that it was a wee bit
too high for me which which it was we did a couple where i sang it in the lower register like it was
much easier to hit the notes but we thought it was kind of funny or if i was it was slightly out of
my comfort zone i think universe is calling for it jamie dornan in the musical let's make that happen
um what's one moment in your life and your career that you would hate to forget
oh well um when i got cast in the fall um i had a real sense of it being a massive turning point
and i remember the sort of the enormity of getting that part i'd never worked for the bbc before i'd
never even done like a small part of the bbc had an audition built off for the bbc at this stage
but it never got nothing to then suddenly be the co-lead in something of that sort of magnitude
with scripts that were that good and that ambitious um was she was just massive it was
huge for me i've been lucky i've worked with bbc a few times since that and obviously the tourist
is bbc production um but uh i i remember thinking that that was a big moment in terms of like what
happens next and what this what what this does for me and in terms of the opportunities i'm going to
get off the back of this and to be involved in this thing that's so well structured and so well
written i remember thinking this was such a big turning point in my career and it it ended up
changing my life so i was right to think that way um so yeah i'll never forget what that feeling was
i love that so much but speaking of huge i mean i'm going to be a little bit cheeky here
i've heard some tea spill about you being in the mcu jamie what can you share what can you share
that you haven't spilt already i tell you what i can totally debunk the whole thing for you if that
helps helps you i think what happened was uh you know like often with press things get taken out
taken out of turn or get slotted into a way that fits a certain narrative i think i mentioned
that i'd met um kevin feige who uh who i i have met on a general meeting but it was years ago
um i haven't spoken to him in a long time you know every actor of a certain uh on stage meets heads
of studios that's what happens you go to delhi and you meet all these people so have i met the people
at marvel yeah have i met the people every other big like you know studio yeah um so i think it
was that and someone then decided to take that and act like i've been talking to them recently about
something so yeah there we go the the things people take out of context it's ridiculous
well you stood there well but speaking of you know upcoming things i mean in the tourists they talked
a lot about australian survivor so have you been complaining with your australian tv shows i'm not
that up to date with them um i might i probably know more because i have my whole family out
there with me like my kids got very into bluey which is a cartoon they have which is like
um uh massive right there it's kind of like peppa pig scale um like what that is here blue is like
the equivalent bit there um and uh so you know definitely got i've watched a lot a lot of that
um but yeah i i mean like like so many of us of a certain generation
grew up with home and away and and neighbors and uh you know it's like that sort of thing where
you really like like fosters as a beer in australia they don't they don't drink fosters
and they don't know that much about homeowner and neighbors but over here we've made a big
deal out of all these these things and they're considered so sort of australian and seismic
um but yes uh i definitely didn't watch any australian survivor i've never seen any form of
survivor i've never watched that show i see you have not i'm not a big is that reality i guess
that's really dude i'm not a big reality tv guy i i will get i'll get you know seduced into the old
thing it's not like i've never watched watched anything but um i haven't watched that but you
know so you know we saw a character discovering you know who he was and discovering what is going
on and i imagine for him it must have been quite strange i mean being seeing this crazy landscape
so i just wanted to link that and ask where's the strangest place that you've been recognized
oh um i was i was at the toi i was at a rugby match and i was at the toilet and i'm i'm at
the urinal of men standing beside each other and this guy was having a very big chat with me
whilst we were sort of trying to do our business and uh he was asking me for a photo and stuff and
it was very the timing of it was horrendous and i was like i was like can we really you really want
to do this now can we finish up what we're doing having to do here um and maybe you know take it
outside so we i sort of convinced him that it wasn't a good time or face to be doing this and
then we took a photograph outside but that was a pretty awkward uh exchange here that sounds
so awkward and i guess we'll leave it out there thank you so much jamie thanks so good thank you