New Interview of Jamie and Cillian Murphy with THR

In Anthropoid, Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy play a pair of Czech operatives on a mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, one of the main architects of the Holocaust and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.

Although they're a team onscreen in the Bleecker Street release based on true events that hits theaters today, Dornan and Murphy didn't spend a lot of time together before filming to try to cultivate a close bond. But it seemed clear in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the film's release that a friendship has developed between the two.

As he talked about being a fan of Murphy's work, Dornan slipped in a subtle dig at his slightly older co-star, saying with a straight face, "Obviously he's a great deal older than me, so I've sort of grew up watching Cillian's work." Murphy immediately began laughing at Dornan's playful ribbing.

Apart from expressing their mutual admiration for one another, Dornan and Murphy talked about the research they did to play Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik, respectively, relying largely on the 15 years of research writer-director Sean Ellis said he put into the project before filming began.

Murphy, well-known for his roles in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, where he played the Scarecrow (he hasn't seen Zack Snyder's Batman v. Superman, he said) and Inception, is reteaming with Nolan for another World War II film, Dunkirk, which will be released next summer.

For Dornan, Anthropoid is a rare onscreen departure from his role as Christian Grey in Universal's ongoing Fifty Shades trilogy.

Dornan revealed that he felt significantly less pressure making the second and third films in a trilogy that launched with more than $570 million at the box office, adding that he thinks some of that initial anxiety may have crept into the first film. He also opened up about being in Nice during the Bastille Day terror attack and the struggle of returning to work the next day.

Writer-director Sean Ellis spent many years researching this part of history before filming began. What sort of research did you do to prepare for your roles?

Cillian Murphy: [We were very lucky that Sean researched the film for many years.] We sort of piggybacked on his knowledge, and he gave us a lot of materials, which we read. For me, the greatest resource was actually shooting the film in Prague. We were able to shoot in a lot of the locations where the mission actually happened and these guys existed, so that was kind of very affecting. We had a Czech crew and a lot of Czech actors. There's a great deal of authenticity to the project, and Sean was very anxious that that was the case from the beginning. You do your due diligence, you read as much as you can, and then, ultimately, I find that you discard that and you concentrate on the characters and you can draw on [the research] if you wish, but I think ultimately it's about bringing as much truth and honesty to the portrayal as possible.

Jamie Dornan: You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history. When it's actually happened, that makes it much easier. There's plenty of information out there — books, online — about this part of history that research was very easy to come by.

New Interview of Jamie and Cillian Murphy with Inverse

Playing the real life heroes who may have single handedly turned the tide of World War II was a major responsibility, but Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan were up to the challenge.

As Czechoslovakian resistance fighters Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš in director Sean Ellis’s Anthropoid, they faced a harrowing story: Gabčík and Kubiš parachuted into Nazi-occupied Prague and cooked up a plot to assassinate SS commander Reinhard Heydrich with limited resources, little in the way of operations intelligence, and plenty of espionage that could have unraveled their entire fateful mission. Add in Ellis’ realistic approach, and it was a harrowing job on a harrowing film.

Inverse met with Murphy and Dornan to talk about playing real life war heroes, and whether a method acting approach works for them.

Were you guys aware of Operation Anthropoid before reading the script?

Jamie Dornan: Not at all. Didn’t have a clue.

Cillian Murphy: I don’t think many people were familiar with it, but for Czech people it’s a huge part of their history. It was a defining moment and changed the course of the war. There’s still huge amounts of the Second World War that are still unexplored, and that’s why it’s such a great mine for writers and directors.

What did director Sean Ellis bring to the production? He was pulling double duty with a lot of behinds the scenes responsibilities on this film.

JD: It’s a crazy thing to watch, but very impressive to watch him operate the camera handheld and directing by giving you a note on a scene by keeping the film rolling. Keeping that energy up keeps you in it because it never drops. Luckily Cillian and I are actors who both respond to that. A lot of actors wouldn’t like rolling takes, but it keeps things very fresh.

CM: It makes a real connection because he was so invested in it. When we were running around the church or in the water in the crypt in the climax he was there too. He was experiencing everything we were, so the whole thing was so equitable.

New/Old Fan Picture of Jamie in NYC Last Week

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‘The 9th Life of Louis Drax’ Soundtrack Album Cover + Tracklist

Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for Alexandre Aja’s supernatural thriller The 9th Life of Louis Drax. The album features the film’s original music composed by Canadian singer/songwriter Patrick Watson (It’s Not Me, I Swear!). The soundtrack will be released on September 2, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The 9th Life of Louis Drax stars Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, Aaron Paul, Aiden Longworth, Oliver Platt, Molly Parker and Barbara Hershey. The movie revolves around an acclaimed neurologist who uses unorthodox techniques to try to tap into a young boy’s unconscious mind and reveal the truth about his near-fatal fall and his life of near-death accidents. The thriller will be released on September 2 in select theaters by Summit Premiere.

Here’s the album track list:

1. Louis Drax
2. Helicopter
3. Clouds
4. The Red Dress
5. Dead For Two Hours
6. Resurrection
7. Underwater To Cave
8. The Darkest Place
9. A Hamsters Death
10. Forbidden Kiss
11. Creature In The Hallways
12. The Bridge
13. Hypnosis
14. Before I Met Your Father
15. Nine Lives
16. Man Under The (Orchestral)
17. The 9th Life Of Louis Drax

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New Interview of Jamie with Associated Press

AP - Don't look for Jamie Dornan on social media. He's had it.

Specifically, he's had it with hate-mongering trolls he's encountered despite a hyper fan base for "Fifty Shades" and "The Fall."

"To be honest, I was very inactive on it in the last year," he said during a recent round of interviews for two upcoming films, "Anthropoid" and "The 9th Life of Louis Drax."

"To delete my Instagram ... I had to email my publicist to get the password. Twitter I used to have a bit of fun with back in the day but I think I've tweeted twice in the last year," Dornan said.

 

The reality of living life out loud on social media looks like this from his perspective:

"The more public interest in you, the more horrible people become," Dornan said. "People start to say disgusting things about your family, about your children. What's the point?"

New Interview of Jamie, Sean Ellis and 'Anthropoid' Cast with New York Times

New York Times - What's Jamie Dornan got to look forward to? The links.

While happy to be employed, the "Fifty Shades" hunk said he's been working on back-to-back projects for what seems like forever and can't wait to "play a bit of golf" as he chills at home in London with his wife and two young children later this year.

"They've been with me everywhere I've filmed but still I'd like to have more than just the weekends and the odd evening with them," Dornan said during a recent media tour. "It's time to be on daddy duty for a while."

So what's he been up to? Making the last two "Fifty Shades" movies, for starters, and wrapping the third season of "The Fall," the BBC series that launched his career.

There was also filming of a Netflix military thriller, "Jadotville," in a role based on a real-life commandant of an Irish UN contingent in the Congo. And then there's "Anthropoid," out Friday, another true-to-life war role, this one in Nazi-occupied Prague.

Oh, and he squeezed in "The 9th Life of Louis Drax," which has him playing a doctor with questionable judgment and cool mind-reading skills, against a boy in a coma.

Veering in and out of all of these worlds at a breakneck pace suits Dornan just fine.

"I love that aspect of it. My mind can be quite busy and sort of constantly kinetic and I think ... I've picked a good profession to sort of enable that," he said. "But sometimes it's tricky."

New Video Interview of Jamie, Cillian Murphy and Sean Ellis with Coming Soon - 'Anthropoid' Press Junket

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New Video Interview of Jamie and Cillian Murphy with Deco Drive - 'Anthropoid' Press Junket

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WSVN - “Fifty Shades of Grey” actor Jamie Dornan trades in his whips and chains for a soldier’s uniform in “Anthropoid.” He and Cillian Murphy star in the true story of a secret mission during World War Two in Czechoslovakia.

But don’t call it a war movie — because the stars say it’s so much more.

Toby Jones (as Uncle Hajský): “What is your mission ?”

Nazi Officer Reinhard Heydrich — is their mission.

Jamie Dorman (as Jan Kubis): “He’s executed thousands. Only Hitler is above him in the Nazi hierarchy.”

Marcin Dorocinski (as Ladislav Vanek): “Are you completely mad?”

Yep, they’re mad. That’s why Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy are on the hunt for Hitler’s third-in-command.

Cillian Murphy: “Two Czech soldiers were parachuted into Czechoslovakia, as it was at the time, and their mission was to assassinate him.”

Based on a true story — “Anthropoid” is shot from the point of view of the soldiers involved in the 1942 secret operation.

Jamie Dornan: “I play Jan Kubis and Cillian plays Josef Gabcík. And they’re these two Czech soldiers who in real life were close, you know, they were close friends, I think, throughout out the mission. Essentially, they were the ones who did the main carrying out of the assassination attempt.

Cillian and Jamie loved being in the film.

Jamie Dornan: “It happened to be a story that grabbed me and it was a no-brainer, really.”

But filming scenes in the same spot where “Operation Anthropoid” actually played out in World War II more than 70 years ago was an even bigger plus.

Cillian Murphy: “We spent a lot of time in the actual church, and you walk and you see the bullet holes, and you see where the hand grenades got off. It’s very very humbling.”

Shooting got intense at times — but Jamie and Cillian found a way to handle it.

Jamie Dornan: “At the end of those days, you do often need some kind of release. You usually reward yourself with a drink at the end of the days.”

Cillian Murphy: “Best beer in the world Czech Republic.”

New BTS Pictures from 'Anthropoid' + Quotes from Jamie, Cillian Murphy and Sean Ellis

 

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan together on the set of “Anthropoid,” the new World War II thriller from the fashion-photographer-turned-director Sean Ellis. “I can’t imagine the film without them,” Ellis says. “I met with Cillian and thought we were definitely on the same page. After reading the script he had some really great, insightful ideas about the character, and you go, yes, this is someone who’s just going to bring to really breathe life into Gabcik.”

Ellis (left) watches Dornan rehearse a scene from behind the camera. Dornan remembers being taken with the script from his first read. “It all felt very human and very relatable,” he says.

Reinhard Heydrich, played by Detlef Bothe, points his gun at Jozef Gabcik (Murphy). The scene features one of the film’s big twists, which Ellis describes as “one of the great reversals, for me, in this story.” After learning about the details of Operation Anthropoid from a documentary, Ellis says, “I couldn’t believe it” — punctuating his statement with much stronger language.

Dornan (left) and Murphy head off on their mission. “He was a very, very successful photographer before he became a director,” Murphy says of Ellis. “The guy knows about photography like nobody else.”

Dornan as Jan Kubis. Ellis admired Dornan’s work as the sociopathic serial killer Paul Spector in the British drama “The Fall.” “I sort of said to him that he’d be opposite of Paul Spector,” Ellis says. “You’ve got to eradicate any of that darkness.”

Murphy and Dornan on the set of the final shootout in an exact replica of the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague. “They were the most intense days of filming,” Dornan says. “We were all running around from gunfire, and it’s a very hot, sweaty, sort of mad environment, I would say. It’s exhausting and totally immersive.”

For the movie’s final moments, which take place in the church’s crypt, the music was especially important. “I worked very closely with Robin Foster, the composer,” says Ellis, who commissioned the final music early in production. “I played it only twice and I wrote back to Robin and I said, ‘It’s the piece of music that we’re going to use; I can’t listen to it anymore because I do not want it to lose its power for me.’”

 Cillian Murphy

Murphy as Josef Gabcik. While Ellis saw Dornan’s character as “innocent,” Murphy’s Gabcik was a hardened realist. “In a weird way, Cillian’s got the darkness,” Ellis says. “He was very excited to explore that as an actor.”

Take a look at all the amazing BTS pictures from 'Anthropoid' HERE

New Interview of Jamie and Cillian Murphy with Vulture

Vulture - Anthropoid may be yet another World War II movie, but it stands out from the typical cinematic take on warfare. For one thing, director Sean Ellis has worked toward the gold standard in historical accuracy, building to-scale sets and creating character bibles from painstaking research. The story is also laser-focused on a lesser-known part of the war: the Czech resistance and assassination of the high-ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich. Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy play two Czechoslovak soldiers who undertake the film's mission. During a press day at the Langham Hotel in New York, Vulture caught up with Dornan and Murphy to discuss making Anthropoid, the presence of another Holocaust-adjacent story in the current global political climate, and why Hollywood is so often drawn back to this particular era of history.

Anthropoid is incredibly historically accurate. How did you approach these roles given that you both play real historical figures?

 Jamie Dornan: Neither of us knew much about the operation before we got sent the script, but there’s lots of stuff online, obviously, and Sean [Ellis] gave us these amazing booklets — he said, “This is your bible until we start filming." Luckily, we were both cast pretty early on. Cillian was cast before me, but we were both cast with plenty of time before we started filming. [The booklet had] every single thing that we needed to know about the operation, about every aspect of it. It’s very rare to be handed something like that by a director. It was kind of great, he did so much of the work for us in giving us this book. I got a lot of stuff out of that.

Cillian Murphy: Yeah, same, for me the fact that we shot the movie in Prague, you know, we shot in a lot of the real locations. We spent a lot of time in [Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral, where a manhunt following the operation took place], me and Jamie walking around. You know you see where the hand grenades have gone off, you see the bullet holes in the walls. It was very affecting, very moving, and then we built a to-scale replica of the church in the studio. It was so genuinely detailed.