LONDON – Actor Jamie Dornan has opened up concerning the demise of his father from Covid-19 after a routine knee surgical procedure in March 2021.
The Fifty Shades trilogy star was in caught in quarantine in Australia forward of filming BBC sequence The Vacationer when he acquired the heartbreaking information.
In an interview with British tabloid The Solar final Friday (Jan 14), he mentioned he may relate to the trauma so many have skilled through the pandemic.
Dornan, 39, mentioned: “It has been a brutal time for plenty of causes and for plenty of folks. We’re all simply making an attempt to journey it out and are available out the opposite aspect – and hope we have our heads intact.”
He revealed that the demise of his dad, Prof Jim Dornan, a outstanding obstetrician and gynaecologist in Belfast, made 2021 “the worst yr…Øand the toughest”.
The daddy and son have been shut and Jamie Dornan mentioned his father helped him cope with the lack of his mom Lorna from pancreatic most cancers when he was 16, telling him: “Do not let this be the factor that defines you.”
Jamie Dornan added: “I have been subjected, early on in my life and now, to quite a lot of ache and loss.”
His father, who was 73 when he died, had been supportive of his profession and was exceptionally pleased with his newest film function in director Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, which is a robust contender on the upcoming Oscars.
The approaching-of-age film, which additionally stars Judi Dench, has deep resonance for the Dornans as it’s set within the metropolis they known as residence.
In it, Jamie Dornan performs a personality based mostly on Branagh’s personal father.
Sadly, Jamie Dornan’s dad didn’t get to see the film, which had its world premiere in September 2021, earlier than his sudden demise.