Jamie Dornan Goes Back to ‘Belfast,’ but Not Without Worry
The New York Times
This Oscar contending drama takes Dornan from “Fifty Shades of Grey” into prestige filmmaking, though many things about the film hit awfully close to home.
Jamie Dornan stuck his fingers in the fireplace, fussing with a few stray flakes of ash, searching for something small to concentrate on so he wouldn’t have to think about the very big thing that was happening the next day.
“I’m just hoping to not have vegetables thrown at us, and calls for the guillotine,” the 39-year-old actor told me.
It was the day before Dornan’s new film, “Belfast,” an Irish coming-of-age story, would screen for the first time in the Northern Irish city that bears its name, a city where Dornan spent the first 19 years of his life. Around 1,500 people were expected to attend the premiere, and Dornan anticipated how that hometown crowd might feel about a movie set there: curious, proprietary and quick to pounce if “Belfast” made even a single misstep.
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