Jamie Dornan, from ’50 Shades of Grey’, confesses that 2021 was “the worst year of his life”

Life is a mosaic of emotions and experiences of all kinds, and many times the most terrible experiences occur alongside the most incredible. That is why we cannot judge the lives of others, since, no matter how many good things we see from the outside, we do not know what kind of experiences they are having on a personal level.

Actor Jamie Dornan, who you may recognize from 50 shades of gray, had one of the most successful and important years in his career. Your movie Belfast is a resounding success with critics and even earned him a Golden Globe nomination. In addition, his role in the series The Tourist He has received nothing but applause. Even so, the actor affirms that 2021 was one of the worst years of his life.

The blows of 2021

It’s strange to end the year with all this positivity, with so much praise for ‘Belfast’ and so much good about ‘The Tourist’, because on many levels it has been the worst year of my life and the most difficult.

In an interview with the newspaper The Telegraph, Jamie opened up about how difficult 2021 was for him due to the death of his father, who passed away in March of that year due to covid-19. As if that were not enough, the actor had not seen his father for a year and a half, due to the protection measures due to the pandemic, since they lived in different countries, and his busy itinerary.

“My dad was a beacon of positivity”

When his father passed away at the age of 73, Jamie was in Australia filming The Tourist, which makes the actor’s mourning harder. In addition, they have not been able to give him a funeral due to restrictions due to the pandemic. Jamie’s dad was named Jim Dornan and he was a successful and renowned obstetrician and gynecologist. Unfortunately, in 2005 he was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and since then he has worked closely with the Leukemia & Lymphoma NI charity.

In truth, you could search everywhere and it would be very difficult to find anything negative to say about my father. It was a beacon of positivity, that’s my main takeaway.

Jim’s influence

In BelfastJamie plays a family man and was greatly influenced by his own father. The actor mentions being “devastated” because his dad will never be able to see his performance in this theater.

The death of Jim Dornan is a real shame and the actor admitted in the same interview that, if not for that terrible event, 2021 would have been one of his best years, as his career is going better than ever.

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