--- description: "This is murder in a sense, but it’s for a greater good” title: Jamie Dornan Discusses His Role as Nazi-Killing Hero in Anthropoid image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72728590f2374ad2/69885a630b72e34f616e4de0/jamie-dornan.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Fifty Shades_ Star Jamie Dornan Discusses His Role as Nazi-Killing Hero in _Anthropoid_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 10, 2015 12:31 PM CUT  Jamie Dornan attends the UK Premiere of "Fifty Shades Of Grey" at Odeon Leicester Square in London on Feb. 12, 2015. Jamie Dornan attends the UK Premiere of "Fifty Shades Of Grey" at Odeon Leicester Square in London on Feb. 12, 2015.Samir Hussein—WireImage/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 10, 2015 12:31 PM CUT Jamie Dornan of _Fifty Shades of Grey_ fame has called his new role playing a Czech agent sent to kill a top Nazi general as “murder for the greater good”, _Variety_ [reports](http://variety.com/2015/film/global/fifty-shades-of-grey-star-jamie-dornan-on-playing-anti-nazi-hero-in-anthropoid-1201537504/ "undefined"). British director Sean Ellis joined Dornan at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Thursday to present the new film _Anthropoid,_ which starts filming on location in Prague in September. Dornan plays Jan Kubis, one of two Czechoslovak resistance fighters who assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust, in the killing – codenamed Operation Anthropoid. “These were just normal guys who were fighting for something they fiercely believed in,” Dornan said at a press conference. Dornan said Kubis’s motives resonated with him more personally than previous ones, particularly serial killer Paul Spector in crime show _The Fall._ “He’s a man with a mission to carry out, and it’s a mission for the right reasons. It’s not someone like Spector who is murdering people just for no good reason… This is murder in a sense, but it’s for a greater good,” he said. Dornan is also [starring](http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-picks-up-jadotville-war-drama-starring-jamie-dornan-for-2016-debut-1201434776/ "undefined") in war thriller ‘Jadotville’ which is premiering on Netflix in 2016. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3952679/jamie-dornan-anthropoid/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3952679/jamie-dornan-anthropoid/"},"headline":"Fifty Shades Star Jamie Dornan Discusses His Role as Nazi-Killing Hero in Anthropoid","datePublished":"2015-07-10T12:31:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:08:14.515Z","description":"\"This is murder in a sense, but it’s for a greater good”","url":"https://time.com/3952679/jamie-dornan-anthropoid/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72728590f2374ad2/69885a630b72e34f616e4de0/jamie-dornan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72728590f2374ad2/69885a630b72e34f616e4de0/jamie-dornan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jamie Dornan","caption":"Jamie Dornan","creditText":"Samir Hussein—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3952679/jamie-dornan-anthropoid/","name":"Fifty Shades Star Jamie Dornan Discusses His Role as Nazi-Killing Hero in Anthropoid"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Late-Night Highlight: Watch Jamie Dornan Read 'Fifty Shades' In A Scottish Accent","description":"Jimmy Fallon made Jamie Dornan's very first appearance on an American talk show pretty memorable with his newest game, Fifty Accents of Grey.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/W9OVA70W/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-10T09:21:26.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/W9OVA70W.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3952679/jamie-dornan-anthropoid/","duration":"PT1M27S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3952679/jamie-dornan-anthropoid/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```