“I was in America when the first series came out,” says Macdonald about 2022’s Tourist-mania, “so Jamie and Shalom were texting me saying, ‘This is crazy!’ But I came to the UK this year for the first time since it came out and I’ve noticed a lot more of a reaction. This follow-up, then, has become one of the most anticipated TV launches of recent years. That first season was perhaps 2022’s most talked about drama, winning over audiences and critics alike and becoming one of iPlayer's most downloaded shows. To say that there’s excitement about this second series of The Tourist would be putting it mildly. That's a part of it that I sincerely enjoy!” “We took two weeks to shoot that scene,” he says, “I think enjoy watching me have to go through these sorts of things, it’s some sort of exercise for them that they think is funny! I still feel relatively young and able bodied and I definitely fling myself around Ireland a fair bit in the second series and get roughed up a lot. (Two Brothers Pictures/BBC)įor Dornan, The Tourist has proved a particularly challenging series, physically, though this season doesn’t require anything as nerve-shredding as the car crash that opened season one. still true to the tone and absurdity of The Tourist, but it definitely does feel different because of its geography.”Īmong the new characters for series two is Ruairi Slater, a Garda police officer with a few secrets of his own, played by The Sixth Commandment’s Conor MacNeill.ĭanielle MacDonald in The Tourist S2. “The harshness of the Australian Outback was such a massive part of the show,” says Dornan, “and tonally added to the sense of desperation that Elliot was going through. Whereas the first series had the rugged Australian Outback as its backdrop, the second season relocates the action to Dublin where Elliott (spoiler alert, he survived) and friend and sometime squeeze, former police officer Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald) go to find more answers to his murky past. When Dornan refers to ‘where we’d be doing it’, the answer, this time round, was Ireland. So yeah, it wasn’t in the original plan but I’m very happy we’ve managed to do another series.” “But once I went out with Jack and Harry, and they laid out a plan of how we’d be doing it and where we’d be doing it, then I got on board with it pretty quick. (Nhat V.“I wasn’t into it originally,” Dornan says about coming back for a second stint. This is the second year the church has hosted the event with snow machines making the snow. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) Visitors play in the snow at “Snow In The Bay” at Brave Church in San Ramon, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) Visitors wait in line to have their picture taken with Santa at “Snow In The Bay” at Brave Church in San Ramon, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) Tanush Misra, 5, from San Ramon, gets a push on a sled in the snow at “Snow In The Bay” at Brave Church in San Ramon, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) Visitors ride the “Polar Express” at “Snow In The Bay” at Brave Church in San Ramon, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) Vedant Agarwal, 6, from Dublin, plays in the snow at “Snow In The Bay” at Brave Church in San Ramon, Calif., on Sunday, Dec.

Sophie Wu, 6, and her sister Sarah, 7, play in the snow at “Snow In The Bay” at Brave Church in San Ramon, Calif., on Sunday, Dec.

The church also hosted Snow in the Bay at their churches in Dublin and San Francisco the same day. This was the second year that the free event was held on Brave Church’s property.

In addition to the snow, Santa was made available for pictures, hot chocolate and coffee were consumed and the “Polar Express” ferried children and adults around the small snow field.

Snow machines were brought in to make snow for the Snow In The Bay event in San Ramon. Sleds were pushed, snow was flung and mini snow piles were made as hundreds came out to play in the snow. Make, bake, decorate: Sunnyvale woman sells homemade Easter-themed cookies

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