Jamie Dornan On Playing Kenneth Branagh’s Dad In ‘Belfast’: “I’ve Never Felt So Confident On A Film Set Before” – Deets Inside (Photo Credit: wikimedia)

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Actor Jamie Dornan played the director Kenneth Branagh’s real-life dad in the semi-autobiographical movie ‘Belfast’, which centres on The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Dornan admits the filmmaker made his job surprisingly easy.

Asked about the role, Jamie told Variety: “We had this brilliant introductory discussion. He was making me feel that I was the only person he wanted to be portraying his father. And we’re talking about his life story.”

Jamie Dornan said, “I had so many questions for him in the beginning about his father and how he really would have responded in these scenarios, trying to get a sense of his dad beyond the page. It’s not like he wouldn’t answer them, but he was very much like: ‘I want you to do your own thing with it.’

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