Fifty Shades of Grey is a strange film in our collective pop culture. But to be detrimental for actors, as revealed by Jamie Dornan, whose mental health took a toll after the reviews for the first film came out. Jamie Dornan fled to a rural hideaway when critics panned his performance in Fifty Shades of Grey, the actor has revealed.
An empty house – offered as a retreat by his director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and her actor husband, Aaron – allowed him to avoid the “ridicule” that followed the film’s release in 2015. “I hid,” he admits to Lauren Laverne in a wide-ranging and “very emotional” interview this weekend. “I was coming off the back of career-altering reviews for The Fall and Bafta nominations and all of this sort of madness … and then I was brought to just ridicule, almost,” tells Dornan.
“They [the Taylor-Johnsons] let us have their place in the country, and we hid there for a while and just shut ourselves from the world for a bit and then came out the other side,” he says. “And even now, when I’ve just had very glowing reviews for recent work, there wouldn’t be many of them that don’t mention Fifty Shades. Many reviews say, ‘He’s great, but lest we forget, here’s when he wasn’t great.’ Give us a chance!”
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