Jamie Dornan is opening up about dealing with Fifty Shades franchise critics.
The 39-year-old actor starred in the films, taking on the iconic role of Christian Grey. The movies were based on the Fifty Shades novels which had a massive following, and quite a significant number of critics as well.
In a new interview for British GQ, Jamie spoke about how while he knew a fair amount of backlash regarding the films was expected, he was nevertheless taken aback by the amount of negativity that came about. He shared:
“There’s nothing like Fifty Shades in terms of, it was based on books and we were staying very close to these books. These books were loved by fandom. Really loved, obsessively loved, and despised by every critic.
Real critics hated the books.”
He went on to reveal how difficult it got for him to deal with how the critics were going after the movies:
“You know that you’re going to have these movies that are for the fans, that the fans are going to love, that are gonna make a ton of money. But you know that the critics will be just you know licking their lips and that’s exactly what happened.
And we knew that was going to happen so you’re watching that play out and at times that’s f—king difficult.”
But having said all that, does Jamie regret taking on the role and starring in the franchise? The answer is a big NO. He candidly stated:
“The thing is every move I have made in my career, post those films, I have only been able to do because of those fils. Because all of the stuff, like Belfast, Beyond Private or any like well-received more independent stuff I’ve don’t the last five or six years, they’re only budgeting, they’re only paying for those films to be made off my name because I’m in a franchise that made 1.4 billion dollars.
That’s how that works. It’s all part of it, it’s given me so much, so of course I don’t regret it.”
