Jamie Dornan has opened up about filming emotional scenes for new movie, A Private War.
The Co. Down star, who portrays the character of Paul Conroy, a war photographer working alongside journalist Marie Colvin (played by Rosamund Pike) in Syria and Afghanistan – reveals it was a difficult time.
“Nothing can prepare you for that really,” the Fifty Shades of Grey star told Holly and Phillip on This Morning.
“We knew from the offset that we were going to try and make this as authentic as possible and for a lot of times in the film where we’re depicting, whether it be Syria, Iraq of Afghanistan, we’re using real refugees from those places who have all found themselves in Jordan, where all of the war stuff was in Jordan.
“So there’s a scene where we go to a widow’s basement in the homes in Syria and we’re talking to women of husbands have gone out for the day and not come back.
“They were real Syrian refugees who were telling their real stories and none of it was scripted, Ros [Rosamund Pike] and I were just sort of reacting in the moment. It was the most cathartic, emotional job I potentially will ever do, I was in bits, particularly by the end, we all were, it was very tough.”
A Private War hits Irish cinemas today!
