Jamie Dornan fights back tears in ‘incredibly moving’ Desert Island Discs episode

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Jamie Dornan has mirrored on the Fifty Shades of Grey “ridicule” he nonetheless faces to this present day in a extremely “emotional” episode of Desert Island Discs.

On Sunday (28 January), Dornan appeared on the BBC Radio 4 present, hosted by Lauren Laverne, the place he mentioned his involvement with the franchise in addition to his “guilt” at struggling to “remember” particulars about his mom, who died when he was 16.

About EL James adaptation 50 Shades of Grey, the Northern Irish actor, who performed Christian Grey reverse Dakota Johnson, stated that the 2015 movie’s director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and her actor husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson supported him in the wake of the unfavourable critiques by providing him a keep at their empty nation house so he may escape the criticism.

Dornanr advised Laverne that he “hid for a while” together with his spouse Amerlia Warner and their child son in the fast aftermath of the primary movie’s launch, saying: “They let us have their place in the country and we just shut ourselves from the world for a bit and then came out the other side”.

He continued: “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.”

Dornan stated it was a very “strange” scenario as he was contractually required to do two extra 50 Shades movies regardless of understanding how poorly the primary one was acquired.

“It was a strange thing because then you are like: ‘Well, there is a bit of ridicule here, yet I’m now contractually doing two more of them’ – and knowing there would be more of that damnation to come,” he stated.

“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. A lot of reviews are like: ‘He’s great, but lest we forget, here’s when he wasn’t great.’ Give us a chance!”

Dornan has been praised for the interview, in which he could possibly be heard combating back tears whereas speaking about his mom’s demise, which occurred when he was 16. The actor recalled how his dad Jim, who died in the course of the pandemic, advised him of his mom’s terminal sickness in a frank dialog following a rugby match

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“I am sort of thankful it was told to me straight like that,” he stated, including: “It’s a funny thing. I sometimes feel guilty saying this, but there’s a lot I don’t remember about her. You are not expecting any of that to be taken away.”

Listeners have been praising Dornan for the “incredibly moving” look, with one individual writing: “My hungover state cannot cope with the lovely Jamie Dornan fighting back tears on Desert island discs on @BBCRadio4 this morning.”

Another listener added: “In bits listening to Jamie Dornan on @BBCRadio4,” with one individual writing on X/Twitter: “Didn’t think it was possible to love him more, but I was wrong.”