Jamie Dornan by Alice Montgomery

Author:Alice Montgomery
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780718180898
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2014-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

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No One Knows What’s Going on Inside Someone Else’s Head

Jamie was now on the international radar in a way he’d never been before. He may or may not have been unhappy about leaving Once Upon a Time, but the fact was that the show had increased his profile dramatically and brought him to the attention of casting directors who might otherwise have been unaware of him. This was about to be demonstrated to spectacular effect in a role that totally transformed the public’s perception of him, illustrating that he had outstanding talent as an actor and was able to take on truly disturbing and memorable roles. For Jamie had won the part of Paul Spector, a brutally sadistic serial killer who is also a caring family man.

It’s often been observed that Jamie brings a kind of silent intensity to his roles on screen and that this might be due to growing up during the Troubles in Belfast. The Fall, Jamie’s latest series, was set in Belfast, although the brooding air of mystery and terror were based on something very different, a crazed psychopath who could hardly have seemed more normal at first glance. The premise was this: Gillian Anderson (who got top billing) was Stella Gibson, a Detective Superintendent from London’s Met, who is drafted in to help the police force in Belfast solve a mysterious killing. She quickly identifies similarities with another murder and, rather more quickly than anyone else, realizes there is a serial killer on the loose.

Unusually for a series like this, the audience knows who the killer is from the start. Paul Spector is a bereavement counsellor who is married with two small children, to whom he is a clearly devoted father, playing with the two of them, watching his little daughter dance and generally giving the impression of being a contented family man. He also volunteers with the Samaritans at night, though this ends up being a cover for what he’s really getting up to. For Paul is actually a monster, stalking his victims and plotting what he will do to them in a notebook that he keeps hidden in a loft from which his daughter’s mobile dangles, before carrying out the act. The brilliantly plotted and suspenseful episodes were based around the fact that there were two hunters at work: Paul, on the lookout for more victims, and Stella, who was hunting him. The juxtaposition of caring young father with brutal killer was enormously striking – and it couldn’t be further from those Calvin Klein ads either.

Jamie appeared topless early on in the series, but there was pretty stiff competition on the torso front from some of his fellow male actors, in particular one police officer, James Olsen, whom Stella bedded early on in the series. Stella’s blouses, worn unbuttoned racily low, also became a major talking point, not to mention a part of the plot when they burst open rather inappropriately at a murder investigation press conference. The show was brilliantly atmospheric and totally compelling – a tour de force for everyone involved.

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