'The Tourist' Star Jamie Dornan Talks Mysterious Role on HBO Max Series, Possibility of Musicals
Following an initial run overseas to rave reviews and acclaim from viewers and critics alike, HBO Max's newest thriller The Tourist is flying off to a stellar start ahead of its North American premiere on Thursday, March 3. The Coen Brothers-reminiscent dark comedy starring Jamie Dornan sees the actor's mysterious character known simply as "The Man" waking up with amnesia after being driven off the road in the glowing heart of the Australian outback. Trying his best to piece together his identity with just a few clues left on him, The Man's past catches up with him most aggressively for a role Dornan tells PopCulture.com's Tania Hussain exclusively was layered with some very detailed complexity.
"So much of the craziness of [the role] was on there, obviously, on the page. I loved how brave it was, merging genres together. The challenge of playing someone who inhabits that world, has all of those different genres, but is also discovering everything as he goes along was massive and massively alluring for me," Dornan told PopCulture. "In the second series of The Fall, my character has amnesia, but we don't know if he's telling the truth or if he's manipulating the situation. But there's a purity to this and truthfulness to [The Man's] memory loss that was really exciting."
