Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Very excited to bring you our conversation today with Jamie Dornan.

Now for many of you, the name might call to mind 50 Shades of Grey, where he played the

lead character Christian Grey a billionaire with a thing for SNM.

But nowadays he's known for his lead role in the film Belfast, for which he was nominated

for a Golden Globe Award and most people are saying, maybe nominated for an Oscar as

well.

He's a fascinating guy.

If you haven't seen Belfast, you ought to check it out.

Actually, written and directed by the great Kenneth Branagh, an actor many of you know

and love, about his own childhood in Belfast.

Well he was looking for somebody to effectively play his father in a movie set in 1969 and

he went to Jamie Dornan, Jamie Dornan, a native of Belfast.

So the thing comes full circle, a bit of a homecoming for Jamie Dornan, who grew up during

the troubles.

Of course the conflict of some 30 years between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

Jamie Dornan grew up in the 80s.

He's 39, about to be 40, 80s and 90s.

The Good Friday Agreement brought an end in 1998 to the troubles, but he lived through

much of it.

Just a really great guy we met in New York City at an Irish pub called The Dead Rabbit,

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