‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ actor Jamie Dornan hopes the audience will enjoy his ‘mad journey’ in his next series ‘The Tourist’ – Times of India

‘The Tourist’ is an internationally acclaimed series starring Jamie Dornan aka Christian Grey from ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ fame and Danielle Macdonald. The series follows the lead character Jamie Dornan waking up in an Australian hospital with no memory after his car crash. As the series progresses, Jamie’s character tries to remember his past with the clues available to him, but it raises questions on why anyone would want him dead. Featuring an ensemble cast including Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Genevieve Lemon and others, the series has an impressive rating of 7.1 on IMDb.

In a candid conversation Jamie speaks about the quirks of his new character, action sequences and more. Excerpts:

Are there any specific characteristics or quirks you have used to bring your character ‘The Man’ to life?
What’s nice for me in this is that I’m doing my own accent, which is something I don’t always get to do, and that brings with it a certain sort of comfort. When I’m doing my own accent, I tend to allow more of myself into the acting, which I don’t think is a bad thing.

How much have you enjoyed the action sequences?
It has been physical! That is something I like to think that I have in my wheelhouse still in my 40th year on this earth, and I’d like to think I can keep doing that for as long as they’ll let me. I have to say, I still back myself as being able to achieve a lot of stuff physically and I want to do that while I still have that capability. But we’ve had an incredible stunt team on this and always felt really safe, but I’ve just probably wanted to do a little bit more than they let me!

What do you hope the audiences will take away from this series?
We’re trying to keep people intrigued and entertained and I want this audience to go on this journey with ‘The Man’ and be as bamboozled and cut up and affected by it as he is, and as confused by it. There’s so much TV now, so, you have to do something that keeps its head above that other stuff and stands out for the right reasons – and this journey is like nothing else. Hopefully the audience are willing to come on this mad journey with us.

The Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald starrer series ‘The Tourist’ will be available for streaming on Lionsgate Play from 18th February onwards.