For years, Jamie Dornan has been obsessed with time—not just acting in thrillers about memory, but collecting antique clocks, reading physics books, and sketching timelines in his journals.
Now, he’s turning that obsession into art.
Dornan is producing and starring in a new HBO series called The Loop, where he plays a grieving father who discovers a way to relive one day—over and over—until he finds the moment his daughter’s life changed.
The project is deeply personal. Dornan, who lost his own mother young, says the script was inspired by the “what if” questions that haunted him for decades.
“There’s no action hero here,” he said. “Just a man trying to undo pain, one day at a time.”
He co-wrote the series with a physicist-turned-screenwriter. Each episode is shaped by both emotion and logic, looping the same timeline from different perspectives.
It’s not just a time travel show—it’s a meditation on grief, obsession, and the price of second chances.
And at its center is Jamie, not as a fantasy icon—but as a father, broken and brave.
