Jamie Dornan agrees the end of The Tourist season 2 is ‘f---ing mad’

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Tourist season 2.

The Eire-set second season of Netflix's thriller series The Tourist has more twists and turns than the most winding of Irish country lanes — right up to the very end. In the season's closing moments, show creators Jack and Harry Williams reveal that Jamie Dornan's amnesia-stricken criminal is, in fact, a deep undercover special agent of some sort. What on earth did the actor think when he read that page of the script?

"It was just a f---ing very Jack and Harry mad thing to throw in there," says Dornan, who costars with Australian actress Danielle MacDonald on the show. "My reaction was probably like, of course you’ve done that, of course that’s what he f---ing did. It’s just so mad, unexpected, and just a bit bonkers, but very them, and very in keeping with the quirkiness of the show. There was probably a little bit of an emphasis on keeping that open-ended and letting the audience into that. [It] leaves that open for whatever they want to do next."

The Irish actor doesn't know if there will be another season of the show, but he was in the same situation after shooting his character's initial Australia-set adventure. Dornan recalls that, "the idea was always just to do one series. It was pitched as a limited series of six episodes and I was very on board with that. That felt like the right thing in that mad peak COVID time of it all, to go and do this clean, cool, punchy, odd drama that will live by itself. And then, ah Jesus, a lot of people watched it in the U.K. and Ireland and it got a lot of love, there was a lot of good energy around it."

Dornan admits that there have been "conversations" about a season 3 but that he is "very busy, I think, for the next couple of years."

Wait a second, EW smells a scoop. Dornan is one of the actors reportedly in the frame to take over the role of James Bond from Daniel Craig. Is it possible he will be "very busy" playing and promoting the next 007 adventure?

"Not that I know of!" he says with a laugh. "When are they shooting that? I wonder if they’re even shooting that in the next two years. I don’t know. I can’t keep up with that!"

Dornan says it is likely that any third season of The Tourist would be set in Holland, given that his and MacDonald's characters have relocated to Amsterdam by the end of season 2.

"There’s probably a world where it happens in Holland in some capacity, if they were to do more, which wouldn’t be a bad thing," he says. "I like the Dutch, they’re an interesting bunch, and always really fun, and it’s a beautiful place. But who knows!"

Season 2 of The Tourist is now streaming on Netflix.

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