{"id":104209,"date":"2022-06-05T04:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/jamie-dornan-drew-on-vulnerable-moments-while-filming-the-tourist\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T04:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T22:34:02","slug":"jamie-dornan-drew-on-vulnerable-moments-while-filming-the-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/jamie-dornan-drew-on-vulnerable-moments-while-filming-the-tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Dornan Drew on Vulnerable Moments While Filming ‘The Tourist’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jamie Dornan says it was one of the hardest roles he had performed, but \u201cThe Tourist\u201d was worth it. The six-part limited series, which debuted on BBC before dropping on HBO Max, follows Dornan\u2019s character, who wakes up in the hospital after an accident with no memory of his past life, which was a messy one.<\/p>\n

Instead of homing in on the memory loss and the fact that, well, he\u2019d done some things that have caused a lot of trouble and made a few people want to have him offed, \u201cThe Tourist\u201d leans into the humor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the way it plays with tones, often so abruptly swinging from drama to comedy,\u201d Dornan notes about what sets the series apart \u2014 and about what kept him interested. \u201cJust when you think you have a handle on what\u2019s going on, you\u2019re proven wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

As his character, mostly referred to as \u201cThe Man,\u201d tries to move forward, he starts to piece together what he\u2019s done with the help of police officer Helen Chambers (portrayed by Danielle Macdonald). Quickly, it\u2019s realized that he has skeletons in his closet that still have the legs to catch up with him.<\/p>\n

\"Jamie

At times, the series turns a bit into a cat-and-mouse game \u2014 with the mouse trying to figure out how it got a tail in the first place.<\/p>\n

When the show, created and written by Harry and Jack Williams, premiered on BBC One, it soared, with the pilot reaching 4.6 million viewers \u2014 becoming BBC iPlayer\u2019s top performing original scripted show at that time. It currently remains the most-watched show on the streaming platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never had to approach a character before who doesn\u2019t know who he is, so it was almost like a total opposite process for me of not allowing yourself a backstory and accepting every single discovery he has as something new,\u201d says Dornan. \u201cI often tried to consider myself in my most vulnerable moments, where I\u2019ve felt lost or afraid and draw on those.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he didn\u2019t feel afraid on set, filming in multiple different locations across the Australian Outback did leave him feeling unsettled. The toughest part, the Irish actor says, was the environment. \u201cWe shot in everything from baking hot days to icy cold mornings,\u201d he shares. \u201cWe also dealt with consistent sandstorms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily, hunger wasn\u2019t one of his challenges, adding, \u201cI probably consumed a dozen or more flies!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamie Dornan says it was one of the hardest roles he had performed, but \u201cThe Tourist\u201d was worth it. The six-part limited series, which debuted on BBC before dropping on HBO Max, follows Dornan\u2019s character, who wakes up in the hospital after an accident with no memory of his past life, which was a messy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":104210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1654382043_Jamie-Dornan-Drew-on-Vulnerable-Moments-While-Filming-The-Tourist.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}