This past Thursday at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, Jamie Dornan was on hand to present his new movie Anthropoid. Joining him was the film’s director, Sean Ellis, who previously directed the crime drama Metro Manila.
Anthropoid centers around two real-live Czechoslovak fighters who assassinated one of the top Nazi leaders, Reinhard Heydrich. Dornan plays the role of Jan Kubis, while the other assassin is played by Cillian Murphy. The code name for the operation was “Operation Anthropoid”.
Below is an excerpt from the press conference via Variety.com:
“These were just normal guys who were fighting for something they fiercely believed in,” Dornan said at a press conference. “A lot of that work, thankfully, is done for me on the page (of the script by Ellis and Anthony Frewin). All the human flaws and all the things that make him a tangible person, the everyman you can relate to are on the page, which is great. They’re heroes in the sense of what they did, but very much on the page you see that they are flawed, and have very human aspects to them that would hinder trying to carry out an exercise like this.”
Entire press conference:
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The film is slated to be released in 2016.
