After playing the creepiest man on TV, Jamie Dornan is keen to do more comedy.
The star of BBC1’s New Year’s Day drama The Tourist reckons his role as a serial killer in The Fall resulted in him being typecast.
But Jamie, best known for playing a bondage obsessed billionaire in the Fifty Shades of Grey films, wants to keep things lighter in future.
He said: “I would like to do more comedy. At one point, I thought I would and then The Fall came and people were not looking to me for that.
“What am I drawn to? It could be a dramatic six-part thing to a funny play.
“I don’t plan that much as it is hard to plan in this industry.
“There is no way I won’t do comedy but it may not be next year.”
However, Jamie revealed there are some laughs in The Tourist. The six-part series sees Jamie play a British man who is hounded off the road by a truck in the Australian Outback.
When he wakes up injured in hospital, he has no memory of who he is and where he came from.
His character’s past is connected to the people chasing him – and when his memory returns, it sets off a series of explosive revelations.
The show also features Shalom Brune-Franklin – Line of Duty’s DC Chloe Bishop – and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, the Icelandic star of Trapped, plus Aussie actors Damon Herriman, Alex Dimitriades and Danielle Macdonald.
Jamie played evil killer Paul Spector alongside Gillian Anderson in award-winning 2013 TV hit The Fall.
And his most famous big screen role so far is as sadistic Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy.
But he showed his lighter side earlier this year in the role of a hapless spy in comedy movie Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
the Belfast-born dad of three, 39, reckons his screen icon is 54-year-old “smooth operator” Jamie Foxx, who started out in comedy.
He said: “He’s so multifaceted in his talents, he is insane…
“He is very funny but oozes sex appeal and coolness and is a phenomenal actor. He has a great voice and is a great pianist.
“He is a proper man and has class. When you are in his presence, you feel very uncool.”
