Jamie’s Coming To Town

Ugly feck

aving already shot scenes in Bray and Djouce Woods, Jamie Dornan will be hitting Greystones on July 18th and 19th for the second season of The Tourist.

Which has nothing to do with that bog-awful 2010 Depp agus Jolie movie, and everything to do with brothers Harry and Jack Williams’ rather fine Aussie-set thriller.

“I’m incredibly excited to continue the story of The Tourist,” Dornan says. “Harry and Jack are brilliant writers and I can’t wait for audiences to see how well Ireland and its characters are used to keep them guessing as the tale progresses.”

In The Tourist, Dornan plays Elliot, a man who wakes up in the Australian outback and then spends 6 tautly-paced episodes trying to remember who he is, and why it is so many people appear to want him dead.

Part Memento, part Fargo, with a few Lynchian flashbacks thrown in for bad measure, The Tourist has proven enough of a hit to spawn a second series. Which is currently being shot in sunny Ireland, given that Dornan’s Man With No Shame hails from the old country.

As does Dornan himself, of course, the Belfast boy having made his screen debut in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006) before becoming a fantasy figure to many as Christian in Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015). Since that breakthrough, Dornan garnered critical raves alongside Gillian Anderson in TV series The Fall, and was most recently seen playing the heavy in Kenneth Branagh’s hugely-overrated and undercooked Belfast (2021).

Real Wilder child

And when it comes to Hollywood, hey, all roads eventually lead to Greystones.

On July 18th and 19th, Dornan and co will be shooting The Tourist on Portland Road, Hawkins Lane and Quarry Road, with those particular Burnaby locations closed from 7am to 9pm on both days.

For the residents, access is still allowed, but not during those few minutes whenever a scene is being shot.

And as for those hoping to show Dornan 51 shades of Greystones, security have been given strict instructions to set their tasers to 11.