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Jamie Dornan refused to choose camps that grew up in the shadow of unrest in Northern Ireland.
The actor said that it was impossible not to be affected by violence and division, and that he understood the dynamics and motivations of the conflict.
Dornan, a declared atheist, revealed that he had refused to declare his loyalty to one or the other of the parties in the sectarian struggle between trade unionists and nationalists.
The 36-year-old actor is returning to his North-Irish roots for the BBC's television series Death And Nightingales, which takes place in Fermanagh before the partition of Ireland, though the religious and political divisions turn into paramilitary violence.
Dornan said that although he had experience with the Troubles, he had no partisanship for his role as a Catholic renter, having been "lucky" to mix with both sides of the religious fracture as he grew up.
He said: "You can not live and grow up in Northern Ireland at this time, at that time, and I could not be affected by troubles, even in the smallest of ways.
"Although I do not think there is anything small to be honest.
"I understand it very well. But I am an atheist and I have always grown up, and I have never felt that I was loyal to either party, or just about everything that led to the situation.
"I was very lucky, I went to a school where there was a healthy mix of Catholics and Protestants, I could relate to both sides.
"I could understand it in my own way because I had really experienced it."
Dornan plays the role of Liam Ward in the upcoming drama, a Catholic conflicting with its morally dubious owner, Billy Winters, played by Matthew Rhys.
The Dublin actress, Ann Skelly, plays the lead role of Beth Winters, one of the women at the heart of the story of love, revenge and betrayal.
Star of the North Irish drama The Fall, Dornan said he liked to go home for the movies, especially during an unusually sunny summer that allowed for an idyllic shoot.
He said, "Since the third season of the fall, I have struggled to get home. Having an excuse to be home for the summer was amazing. I visited parts of the country that I had never heard of.
"Any opportunity to work at home, if the role is good, I will accept it. The stories of this part of the world mean a lot to me. It was a joy. "
Dornan has found The Fall's creator, Allan Cubitt, for Death And Nightingales, an adaptation of Eugene McCabe's novel of the same name.
The writer and director said the piece, created in 1885, evoked a troubled Northern Ireland, a region that is once again in the headlines about potential political divisions.
Cubitt said, "It's settled at the moment of the Fénian dynamite campaign.
"It was the time of the beginning of modern terrorism, of terrorism as we know it, of the battle of those people who believed that the British should not be in Ireland."
The tensions serve as a backdrop to a drama that uses flashbacks to tell family and love stories that intertwine. The main character, Beth, must make an important decision on her birthday.
Death And Nightingales will air on Wednesday, November 28 at 9 pm on BBC Two.
– Press Association
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