In the film, he was able to dole it out, but in real life, he clearly couldn’t. In an effort to avoid the criticism that followed the 2015 release of his film Fifty Shades of Grey, Jamie Dornan said on BBC’s Desert Island Discs that he and his wife isolated themselves from society.
Fifty Shades of Grey follows the sadomasochistic romance between Dakota Johnson’s character, college graduate Anastasia Ana Steele, and Jamie Dornan’s character, tycoon Christian Grey.
“I think I hid,” Dornan says of the first film. “I am coming off the back of career-altering reviews for The Fall to just ridicule, almost.”
Sam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron, the film’s director and producer, found refuge in their rural home.
“After they gave us permission to live in the country, we hid out there for a while, avoiding outside contact, and eventually emerged unscathed.” Two additional installments in the series were directed by Dornan.
“It [the film] made so much money that two or three were like greenlit overnight. It was a strange thing, because then you are like, there is a bit of ridicule here and I’m now contractually doing two more of them and knowing that there would be more of that damnation to come.”
After that, his leading performances in Belfast and The Tourist garnered acclaim from critics. Despite the ongoing criticism of Fifty Shades of Grey, he insisted he had no qualms with the film’s creation.
“I have just had very glowing reviews for recent work and there wouldn’t be many of them that don’t mention Fifty Shades in them. A lot of reviews are like, ‘He’s great, but lest we forget when he wasn’t great…’ But regrets that I did them, no.”
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