Jamie Dornan has reflected on the “big responsibility” of executive producing his latest project and said he wanted to do it justice.

The Northern Irish actor, 44, stars as American career criminal Paul Galvin in heist series 12 12 12, which follows three different timelines in the aftermath of his billion-dollar bank robbery.

He stars alongside US actor Anthony Mackie as disgraced FBI agent Jack Strickland, and over eight episodes the pair embark on a high-stakes game of cat and mouse across Europe.

The pair have previously worked together on the 2019 sci-fi film Synchronic, and are both listed as executive producers on the upcoming series.

Dornan told the Press Association: “We’ve both been lucky the last few years to executive produce a few of the things we’ve done.

“You can kind of lean into that as little or as much as you want, I would say.”

The actor, from Holywood in County Down, continued: “But with something like this, I think we really cared and wanted it to be elevated to the rightful kind of place we thought the scripts deserved and the concept deserved.”

Dornan added: “Luckily other people agreed and came on board to give it the best chance to make it the show we wanted it to be, and we cared about that.

“We wanted that. At the end of the day, it’s him and I in the posters. It’s him and I in the trailers.

“It’s a big responsibility for us. We have that power to make sure we put the people in place to give it its best chance.”

Despite playing a criminal, Dornan joked that if he pulled off a heist he would be “getting caught”.

“I don’t like confrontation that much,” he said.

“There’s a very particular amount of drinks I need to have then I’m quite up for confrontation.

“I think I’d probably be quite excited and giddy to do the heist, and then as soon as I heard an alarm or something I’d be like, I’m out.

“This isn’t for me – I’ve got kids!”