Jamie Dornan Hid After Bad ’50 Shades of Grey’ Reviews – IndieWire

Jamie Dornan has actually come a lengthy method given that “50 Shades of Grey,” starring in struck movies like “Belfast” and “A Haunting in Venice” and leading the Netflix collection “The Tourist.” However the star still keeps in mind the mockery that he sustained for starring in the poorly-received adjustments of E.L. James’ successful sensual books.

In a current look on the BBC 4 radio program “Desert Island Discs,” Dornan opened regarding the first wave of bad attention after Sam Taylor-Johnson’s very first “50 Shades of Grey” movie struck movie theaters in 2015. He discussed that the movie’s bad reviews hurt him provided his current acting successes, triggering him to hide in Taylor-Johnson’s estate till the criticism blew over.

“I think I hid,” Dornan stated. “I was coming off the back of career-altering reviews for ‘The Fall’ and BAFTA nominations and all the madness ‘The Fall’ brought… to ridicule. We went down to Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s place. They weren’t there. They let us have their place in the country and we sort of hid there for awhile and shut ourselves off from the world a little bit.”

Dornan took place to claim that his dissatisfaction with the movie was intensified by his understanding that its monetary success would certainly need him to repeat his duty as Christian Grey 2 even more times.

“It made so much money so like… films two and three were greenlit overnight,” Dornan stated. “It was a strange thing because there’s a bit of ridicule here and I’m now contracted to do two more, knowing that there will be much more damnation to come.”

While the trilogy’s bad reviews might have injured Dornan, they were not completely surprising to him. The star formerly informed IndieWire that he constantly anticipated the movies to bomb with movie critics.

“The fans, for the most part, loved it and it made a ton of money,” he stated. “I think if everyone’s honest with themselves, that was the main two intentions going into it. We were aware that the critics probably weren’t going to love it, because the critics did not love the books. I don’t know how we would’ve changed that when we were sticking so close to the books. But there’s no regret or anything.”