Islanders on Mull are at a fever pitch as actor Jamie Dornan is set to arrive on the island for filming. The Hollywood star, best known for films 50 Shades of Gray and Belfast, as well as TV shows The Tourist and The Fall, will be filming on the island at the start of June. On Saturday, the CalMac Oban to Mull ferry was filled with 12 lorries said to be from the production company making The Undertow.
Mr Dornan was seen filming aboard a boat in Kylesku, Sutherland, on the same day. Mr Dornan is cast as twins Lee and Adam in Netflix crime drama. The film follows Adam when his long-estranged brother Lee, also played by the Irish-born actor – abruptly returns.
Doran, who plays fisherman Adam, is thrown into chaos when Lee stirs up tension with the former’s unhappy wife, Nicola, played by Mackenzie Davis, with whom Lee has a “tangled romantic past”. It is unclear when Mr Dornan will arrive on the island, but it is understood many locals have signed up to be extras in the movie. On Saturday islanders noticed the production company come to Mull ahead of filming due to start in the coming days, before t the start of June.
One reader told The Press and Journal: “Locals can not get booked on the ferry at the best of times, so this film must have been a long time in the planning.” Can I catch a glimpse of Jamie Dornan? Islanders say it is understood Dornan will be filming in three key locations. Loch Peallach is the easternmost of three lochs in the north of the island of M.