The Irish actor talked about getting into the mind of his creepy character Paul Spector on 'The Fall,' Dornan will reprise his role on the second season of the hit BBC drama.
Jamie Dornan's transition from serial killer Paul Spector to seductive Christian Grey in the upcoming "Fifty Shades of Grey" film apparently wasn't a smooth one.
The Irish actor, 32, says taking on the role of a sociopath in BBC's "The Fall" left him "slightly scarred."
"You can't fail to be left slightly scarred by inhabiting someone like that for two seasons," Dornan told The Guardian.
"I do carry elements of him with me in a worrying way."
The hunky actor is preparing to reprise his role as Spector in season 2 of the hit BBC drama, which premiered last year to rave reviews. He told the newspaper that he was scarred after "absorbing" some of the character's reactions.
"You do carry some of that anger and that hatred in you a little bit, especially towards the end of a few months playing him," Dornan said.
Asked if he was a feminist, Dornan said he would “never totally describe myself as a feminist. I have feminist values. I am well aware what my character is doing is wrong.”
He said the role had “totally transformed” his life and career, and hinted that his character could yet return after the end of the six-part second series, which will begin on BBC2 later this year.
"Fifty Shades of Grey," which opens in February, is much lighter material for the Irish actor, but playing confident, sexy businessman Grey is no less of a departure from Dornan's real personality.
"I don't like my physique," he told Interview Magazine in June. "Who does? I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid."
But Grey is "someone who is careful to keep himself in shape, someone who spends obscene amounts of money on presenting himself," Dornan said.
"I'm quite awkward in a suit because I don't have an opportunity to wear a suit very often, and this is a guy who lives in a suit — the best suit."
The Fall series two preview: a slow-burning opener unlikely to win new fans
The most repulsive drama ever broadcast on British TV is back. Not everyone agreed with that Daily Mail description of The Fall; indeed, it was BBC2’s most popular drama for 20 years and its return is one of the most eagerly awaited TV events of 2014.
Set 10 days after the final episode of series one, the second season opens with both Dornan and Gillian Anderson’s DSI Stella Gibson in glorious isolation. Dornan literally so; though Gibson, seconded from the Met Police to root out bent Belfast coppers, has always been an island.
“I look the same but I am not the same as before,” says one of the victims. Neither is the drama. Spector’s pretence of being an ordinary family man, the double life that gripped in its first run, is all but shattered. But not entirely so. At a Q&A following the screening, writer Allan Cubitt, who also directs this six-part series, described Spector’s daughter, Olivia, as “the heart of the thing. She is the most distressing victim in The Fall.”
Dornan said the script “transcended everything I thought it could be. You will see as the series goes on it is quite remarkable what it entails.”
But don’t expect a big reveal as to the back story of Anderson’s enigmatic DS Gibson. “There are a small handful of scenes, moments where you you understand her a little bit more,” she said. “If it were more than that, I would be disappointed.”
The BBC is clamping down on spoilers ahead of its transmission, expected in November, but Cubitt said he “wasn’t giving anything away” by flagging up the “growing obsession” between the hunter and the hunted.
“That’s the way of these investigations, particularly the multiple murderer, the police become increasingly immersed in their world, their psychology, in the hope of gaining the upper hand, some kind of insight, to stop them what they are doing,” he said.
Cubitt said he had not toned down the show in response to complaints about the on-screen violence against women – “There was some criticism but by no means a majority of people or anything of that sort” – but admitted: “My mantra during the first season as we should neither sanitise nor sensationalise Spector. That is a very difficult line to walk.”
The show’s writer, Allan Cubitt, who directed the second series, defended its graphic violence, saying he hoped it would be seen as a feminist piece. “Obviously there were a lot of people who thought the diametric opposite of that,” he said. “But there were plenty of people who understood what I was trying to achieve. In a sense it’s a dissection of a certain kind of male view, an exploration of misogyny.
“Anything that sets out to explore a complex and difficult subject like that always runs the risk of being held up as being an example of it, rather than a critique of it. Obviously if you think The Fall is misogynistic then I would have failed completely, abjectly.”
Anderson, the former X-Files star who came to the end of her acclaimed run in the Young Vic’s A Streetcar Named Desire this month, said she would be keen for her character, the enigmatic DS Stella Gibson, to return in another series.
“Who she is and everything she stands for and how she operates – I find that very compelling and I don’t feel like I have really seen that before,” she said.
“She makes it very clear how she feels about violence against women, how these women are represented and how they are perceived. She is a supporter of women and women being treated respectfully and she doesn’t mince words. It’s in her bones. I like that about her.”
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