Jamie Dornan reflected on his time playing Christian Grey in the film trilogy series Fifty Shades of Grey, based on the erotic novels by E. L. James from 2015-2018.
While speaking of the role, which shot him to fame as a heartthrob, the 38-year-old Irish actor opened up to Variety navigating the immediate box office hit’s poor reviews and receiving ‘freaky’ mail from die-hard fans.
Even two years after the final film was released, the male model said he still gets odd letters from around the world, which are often creepy and perplexing.
Open book: Jamie Dornan reflected on his time playing Christian Grey in the film trilogy series Fifty Shades of Grey, based on the erotic novels by E. L. James from 2015-2018
In his interview over Zoom, he described receiving ‘a collage of photographs of a kid,’ while he under lockdown with his wife Amelia Warner and their three kids.
The star, who is a father to Dulcie, seven, Elva, four and one-year-old Alberta with Warner, explained: ‘Someone saying that it was my kid, and my wife should know that I have this kid who’s seven-years-old.’
‘I think they were trying to say that the kid was mine and Dakota Johnson’s, and we’d had this baby while we made the first ‘Fifty Shades’ movie,’ he quipped. ‘It piqued our interest, let’s say. It was a bit freaky.’
Once-in-a-lifetime role: While speaking of the role, which shot him to fame as a heartthrob, the 38-year-old actor opened up to Variety navigating the immediate box office hit’s poor reviews
Despite years in the spotlight, he admitted the lifestyle of a movie star doesn’t come naturally to him and ‘it’s kind of exhausting’ having to hide ‘aspects’ of himself.
‘I think a lot of us are hiding aspects of ourselves, particularly in Hollywood, and how heightened those interactions are,’ he furthered. ‘It’s a show, and everyone’s on show and trying to give their best version of themselves, and you’re trying to give everybody the hits all the time.’
Then, he discussed being ‘most famous’ for a ‘monsterly successful franchise that was not critically loved.’
Creepy: Even two years after the final film was released, the male model said he still gets odd letters from around the world, which are often creepy and perplexing
Unbelievable: In his interview over Zoom, he described receiving ‘a collage of photographs of a kid,’ while he was under lockdown with his wife Amelia Warner and their three kids
Speaking of Fifty Shades of Grey, he noted: ‘It’s a strange thing going into those films knowing that you’re going to be in a franchise that will probably make so much money and get negatively reviewed, because those books made so much money and were really negatively reviewed.’
Even though Dornan said he doesn’t typically read reviews of his work, he went through a ‘through a bad stage with ‘Fifty Shades’ of reading a couple of really bad ones, but then just finding them funny’ back in 2015.
He credits the particularly rough feedback for driving him to be better and reflected on being described as having the ‘charisma of oatmeal’ in one really ‘harsh’ review.
Upcoming: Upon wrapping the series, the hunk, who is currently promoting his upcoming film Wild Mountain Thyme, said he felt ‘ready to move on from this crazy chapter’
‘I remember that stuck with me, and I don’t entirely disagree with it either,’ he joked.
Upon wrapping the series, the hunk, who is currently promoting his upcoming film Wild Mountain Thyme, said he felt ‘ready to move on from this crazy chapter.’
‘No matter who I was playing, I don’t think I’d want to play a character for multiple, multiple films. I think I’d just get really bored of that,’ he concluded.
The chart-topping trilogy, which grossed a whopping $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office, is ‘one of the most profitable franchises in Universal’s history,’ according to THR.
Leading man: The chart-topping films, which grossed a whopping $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office, are ‘one of the most profitable franchises in Universal’s history,’ according to THR