Jamie Dornan has spoken about the “big responsibility” of executive producing his latest project, the heist series 12 12 12, and said he wanted to do it justice.
The Northern Irish actor, 44, plays American career criminal Paul Galvin in the show, which follows three different timelines in the aftermath of his billion-dollar bank robbery.
He stars alongside US actor Anthony Mackie as disgraced FBI agent Jack Strickland. Across eight episodes, the pair engage in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse across Europe.
Working with Anthony Mackie Again
Dornan and Mackie previously worked together on the 2019 sci-fi film Synchronic, and both are listed as executive producers on the upcoming series.
Dornan told the Press Association: “We’ve both been lucky the last few years to executive produce a few of the things we’ve done.”
“You can kind of lean into that as little or as much as you want, I would say,” he added.
Elevating the Scripts
The actor, from Holywood in County Down, continued: “But with something like this, I think we really cared and wanted it to be elevated to the rightful kind of place we thought the scripts deserved and the concept deserved.”
Dornan added: “Luckily other people agreed and came on board to give it the best chance to make it the show we wanted it to be, and we cared about that.
“We wanted that. At the end of the day, it’s him and I in the posters. It’s him and I in the trailers.
“It’s a big responsibility for us. We have that power to make sure we put the people in place to give it its best chance.”
Joking About Heists
Despite playing a criminal, Dornan joked that if he pulled off a heist he would be “getting caught”.
“I don’t like confrontation that much,” he said.
“There’s a very particular amount of drinks I need to have then I’m quite up for confrontation.
“I think I’d probably be quite excited and giddy to do the heist, and then as soon as I heard an alarm or something I’d be like, I’m out.
“This isn’t for me – I’ve got kids!”
12 12 12 premieres on Apple TV on Friday November 13.
