New series a cliffhanger for Jamie
Actor says filming TV stunts with shoulder injury left him in agony
JAMIE Dornan has told how hanging off a cliff with a dodgy shoulder while filming left him in agony.
The actor, 41, reprises his role as Elliot Stanley for the second series of The Tourist and admitted some of the stunts proved challenging.
Jamie, who is also executive producer on the drama, revealed: “I had to hang off a cliff for a long time.
“I was harnessed but you couldn’t really see it and the whole point of the scene is that I’m hanging there for a comically long period of time.
“So, this does mean to film it, I really was hanging there for a long time, and I have a dodgy shoulder which really paid the price for hanging there for a whole morning.
“That was the most tricky and annoying scene to shoot because I’m an old man and my shoulders don’t work.” The new series sees Elliot return from Australia to his native Ireland to try and find his family after a car smash in the Outback left him with no memory.
Jamie said: “We’re dealing with a guy who has no concept of who he is, and you can only imagine how terrifying that is.”
The Co Down native stars with Danielle Mcdonald once again and said he loved filming with her because they have an “incredibly close bond”.
And he said getting to shoot scenes in Ireland was an added bonus.
He added: “There’s a real intrigue with Ireland.
“People are just fascinated by Ireland, and I feel like everybody sort of has a bit of a love for the place and the people.
“The first day of shooting we were in Kilpedder in Wicklow, and I was walking through the trees and the worst rain... and I thought, this is what it’s like to film in Ireland.
“Working with an Irish crew having the same sort of sense of humour has been great. It’s been a dream to shoot here.
“We were only ever meant to have the one series.
“I remember Jack and Harry Williams who created the show saying it will just be one.
“I don’t think we expected it to be the most watched show in the UK that year and when there’s that much of an appetite, it felt like the right thing to give people more.
“The humour is all there and the story is as mad as the first series.”
The Tourist is on BBC One tomorrow and Tuesday at 9pm.
I was harnessed but you couldn’t really see it JAMIE DORNAN ON HIS SCENES IN THE TOURIST