Plus, Emily Blunt on working with John Patrick Shanley.

For many moviegoers,Jamie Dornanis most recognizable for playing the kinky billionaire Christian Grey in theFifty Shadestrilogy.

But he feels a much greater kinship to his latest character, Anthony Reilly inJohn Patrick Shanley’sWild Mountain Thyme.

“He’s much more relatable to me than Christian Grey,” Dornan tells EW.

“Oftentimes, I felt quite uncomfortable, being very honest with you, playing Christian Grey.

I felt like it was very far away from me, and sometimes, I struggled with it.

There was no distance there… Dornan stars in the whimsical Irish rom-com oppositeEmily Bluntas Rosemary Muldoon.

The two characters have grown up together on adjoining farms, with Rosemary yearning after Anthony for years.

The movie is adapted from Shanley’s playOutside Mullingar, which ran on Broadway in 2014.

“He does have this unique ability to build a world that is so lyrical and otherworldly.

He’s a rather incomparable writer.”

“There’s an element of that in there.

And I think he did that.”

For both Blunt and Dornan,Wild Mountain Thymecalled on them to do any number of difficult things.

“Otherwise, I would be in hospital,” he jokes.

Blunt’s greatest challenge came in singing the Irish folk song that gives the film its title.

But this required a more raw approach.

This was a much more intimate experience.”

“Shanley goes, ‘Everyone thinks for something they’re not.’

And that was it, that was the only explanation,” Blunt says.

“It’s like a 20, 25-page kitchen scene,” he says.

“We took three days to shoot it.

And it was a joy.

I actually genuinely struggled to get those words out.”

Blunt echoes this, saying it was all part of the magic of the experience of working with Shanley.

If this sounds a wee bit odd, Blunt and Dornan admit that it is.

But they wouldn’t have it any other way.

“Some people just might not get this movie,” Dornan muses.

“They might just go like, ‘I don’t get, it’s kind of mad.

I’ve never seen anything like it.’

But then people who get it will really get it, and they’ll really fall for it.

And Emily and I both got it and fell for it.”

Wild Mountain Thymeisnow available on demandand Amazon Prime Video.