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Fifty Shades of Grey… the movie we never thought we would watch, and yet…

We’re honest, as several people, we had prejudices about these books in the past. But since

joined the cast of the movie and that we read the book, we realized we were mistaken. The book is a cute love story above all.

we were even interested in the movie and we were waiting for it eagerly!

We were surprised! Surprised by the humor of the film and its rhythm. We don’t realize the movie lasts for 2 hours. Despite being a romantic movie, so without a lot of action, we are still caught up in the story. Eventually, there’s not a lot of sex in the film. It is essentially a love story that will appeal to girls. Since we have a male opinion on this site, we can confirm that. But there are other elements such as humor, drama and lust that can please the male audience. It’s nice to see Christian’s cars and his other toys. The last few scenes are very intense and the final one is a good parallel to another scene from the beginning of the film. So we admire the filming and editing too.

Some scenes are really amazing as the interview or the contract negotiation. As we are not fans of the books, we have not been disturbed by differences with the film. We didn’t spend the two hours of the film comparing it with the book which allowed us to enjoy it fully. Same with the other characters, we’re glad with all the cast.

About sex and nudity, the film remains relatively soft but sexy. The aesthetic is perfect especially for the first sex scene and the vision in the mirror. The scenes are short but depict enough details. But we agree with Jamie we wouldn’t use the word « erotic » to describe this film either.

To recap, the film can please different people through its various facets, or we should say shades! Some will love it for sex, others for love and others for its humor. The story is really true to the book so we can’t criticize the script. Although many scenes had to be cut. That’s why we hope to have some deleted scenes on the DVD. We liked the movie although it is not our type; but probably thanks to Jamie as well …

Jamie is not disappointing at all! One more amazing role in his filmography. This is not a part as Paul Spector’s one but Christian Grey is still a very complex character and Jamie plays him perfectly. We are very proud of him! Some scenes must had been hard to film, including nudity. The last scenes of the movie really depict Grey’s fury and this is where Jamie is able to demonstrate all his talent. Of course we advise you to watch the movie in English for more intensity. Jamie is brilliant playing a man in love, a romantic and a dominant. The sex scenes are very sensual and we can feel that Jamie really gave everthing he could for them especially in the scene with the wine and ice where not so much is simulated. The negotiation scene is also perfect as we can see Jamie transmiting Christian’s emotions through his eyes. Again, congratulations to Jamie for this new role and we cannot wait to see what he’ll give us for the second movie!

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Here’s one new interview of Jamie. A very interesting one once again! You can read it below. Jamie talks about his

« Becoming a Dad is the best thing that ever happened to me – to us – and it’s an extremely joyful situation, »

« Every day seems to get better and I know it’s the most important role in my life. It’s an intense role. »

« We had our baby three days before we started filming, so you can only imagine how mad a time that was, »

« Relaxing was changing diapers and having a little baby vomit on my shoulders and waking up four times a night. That was how I relaxed when I was doing the shoot. It was pretty full-on. »

Jamie hails from Holywood, Co. Down – the same town as world number one golfer Rory McIlroy. Indeed, the pair were seen hanging out together as recently as last November at a pro-celeb charity championship in Scotland.

« I think people consider Irish people in general to be very down on ourselves, »

« I have a group of mates from Northern Ireland who, to put it mildly, never let you get carried away. We’re quite harsh on each other, but I think it comes from a place of love. Maybe that’s what helps me do this for a living. »

« I think I am like anyone, I have massive hang-ups about my physical appearance, » he says. « I was a very skinny kid, but I played a lot of sport. I played rugby and took it very seriously. It’s a very physical sport and even more so these days than it used to be. »

« My whole thing about Valentine’s Day is, it shouldn’t take a night like that to be romantic. You should be romantic all the time with your girlfriend, your wife, your partner, your boyfriend. It shouldn’t just be one night a year. We should be making an effort and doing it all the time.

« Some guys are really useless about Valentine’s Day but I think I have always tried to make some conscious effort to do something romantic. Now that I’m married, I feel that even more so. You have to keep the romance alive, especially when you have a baby. »

« Romance novels have been written plentifully for an abundance of years and this is why I get defensive of the story itself, the actual love story behind it. Behind all the BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism, masochism), there’s a really great love story and I really think that’s what’s resonated with so many readers. If people want to call it ‘Mummy Porn’, that’s their prerogative. Whatever.

« It’s not a term we used in making the movie. If anything we deliberately avoided it. We’re trying to prove it’s a love story that has a certain kind of sex involved and it’s essential to telling the story and a big part of their relationship. But we definitely didn’t set out to make a movie and put it under a bracket called Mummy Porn. »

Jamie lights up when our conversation moves on to music. For a few years, he was in a band called Sons of Jim and his enthusiasm for music seems to far outweigh his interest in modelling or acting.

« I am such a fan of music and I love it so much, but being in a band takes up so much time and energy and you have to be wholly committed. I didn’t feel we were that good as a band and that is not a good energy to have. We did it for fun and then people wanted it more than we wanted it ourselves and it sort of got beyond us. I think you have to have a sort of arrogance and a belief that you are the best, to put stuff out there that is better than other people’s music. I definitely, definitely didn’t have that.

« I’m very happy being a music fan. I still love it and I play. I knocked around on the guitar for an hour-and-a-half yesterday and my wife wasn’t pleased with it. My baby danced to it for a while, but that’s not saying much. I still enjoy it, but I am far safer being a fan of music than a performer. »

« One of the main reasons why I have chosen to be an actor – and it’s a pretty strange way to make a living – is that it can be whatever you want it to be and there’s so much variety in it. I don’t want to get typecast. I want to have a varied career. In the last couple of years, I have played guys who were psychopaths or sociopaths and I don’t want to play guys like that my whole career. They are so far from what I consider myself to be. I love the idea of doing comedy and of mixing it up and keeping things interesting for myself. »

… and much more! A very interesting interview that we advice you to read below:

A barefooted Jamie welcomes me into his hotel suite at LA’s infamous Chateau Marmont with a cheerful,

“Sorry, I just had to take my socks off, my feet got hot. Can I get you a drink?”

In the flesh he is precisely as good-looking as you think he’ll be. He’s tall, slim and beardy, wearing a white shirt and navy trousers while drinking a bottle of Orangina – the sort you used to get on holiday in France. He seems very relaxed, but his inner goddess must be very aware of what’s to come.

Jamie himself hadn’t read any of the Fifty Shades books before signing up for the trilogy.

“I’ll be brutally honest, I doubt I would’ve ever read the books had I not been interested in the project,”

he admits, his County Down accent showing no sign of dilution.

“I was acutely aware of them though – there’s no-one in the civilised world that isn’t. Sometimes something really captures people, and I think this may have unlocked something in lots of people – mostly women – that they haven’t let themselves explore before. That’s really liberating. I think we’ve made a classy movie. Sam provides a massive element of sophistication to the project.”

Fifty Shades , for anyone not in the civilised world, tells the story of Anastasia Steele, a student who’s introduced to a world of bondage, sadism and dominance when she meets business mogul Christian Grey. While he is a romantic hero, he’s also a sadist – Jamie is clearly not his biggest fan.

“You have to find something relatable or likeable about every character you play,”

he says when I ask what he likes about Grey.

“There are aspects of him that I’m maybe impressed by, but I don’t think I would like him if I met him at a dinner party. I think I’d be a bit like, ‘F***ing hell!’”

“But I didn’t have a huge amount of time to think about it because it was this madcap series of events that led to it. And then the time from me being cast to day one action was four weeks. It was f***ing insanity.”

Now is a good time to point out – in case you hadn’t noticed – that Jamie swears a lot. Expletives fall out of his mouth like extra adjectives. He also has a dry wit which doesn’t always translate. In a recent interview he said,

“I fear I’ll get murdered, like John Lennon, by one of those mad fans at the premiere.”

“My tongue was in my cheek when I said that,”

“All my humour’s based on f***ing sarcasm, like most people where I come from. I probably shouldn’t have said it but it has maybe lit an actual fear. Maybe someone’s like, ‘Ah, it’s not a bad idea. I think I will kill him.’”

He’s joking. But it’s a pertinent point. After years of skirting round the edges of fame he’s about to be catapulted headlong into the foray of crazed fans, paparazzi and red carpets. Is he ready?

“There’s nothing tangible I can do, unless I buy a load of masks and balaclavas. I’m not going to walk around in really expensive suits, clean shaven with neat hair, because I’ll look like [Christian Grey] too much but I won’t be a hermit. I enjoy my life. I’m glad this has happened to me – whatever the f*** this is – when I’m 32, not 22 when you’re young and you get carried away. Those two things combined is quite dangerous territory.”

Dornan’s constant throughout the coming madness is his wife Amelia Warner, 32, an actress and musician who accompanied him to Vancouver to film Fifty Shades while she was heavily pregnant. He’s made much of how understanding she is but ‘Darling I’m going to spend 10 weeks spanking someone in a Red Room’ is never going to be an easy pitch.

“Any moments she’s uncomfortable with, she’s very aware that it’s work and there are 10 crew members also in the room and it’s not sexy. I’m not sure what her plans are about seeing it. It’s totally her prerogative how she approaches it because I know it’s probably not an easy thing. She’ll come to the premiere; I’m not sure if she’ll sit through the movie.”

At 16, a devastating event changed his life. His mum, Lorna, died after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

“It shaped me massively in ways that I’m not even aware of,”

“It has shaped my career in that it shaped me totally as a person. It must’ve had an effect on how I approach every aspect of my life. It’s a horrific thing to happen and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I think about it every day.”

Rather than being reticent about something so personal, Jamie is extremely open about his experience of loss.

“I did some research on it because of The Fall . I had a bit of counselling at one stage. I didn’t keep it up for long, but I definitely found it helpful. Grief comes back in waves; it will hit you like a tonne of s**t when you’re totally unaware.”

“It also takes on a different meaning the older you get, especially now I have a baby myself. Suddenly, I see my wife as a mother, and that can only spark memories of my mother. It becomes very poignant. But sadly, that’s life, and life has to move on. One thing we’re good at as human beings is adapting. You’re not doing yourself any favours constantly being in grief. Take your moments, but don’t let it define you.”

“The Fall totally transformed my professional life. People will think Fifty Shades has, and it has on a different level, but that wouldn’t even be in the ether if it wasn’t for The Fall.”

He looks surprised when I ask how he feels when people say he’s something of an overnight success.

“I didn’t realise people were saying that. I guess they do think that, and they’re well within their rights. How would they know I’ve failed numerous auditions? That I’ve had the same agent for 10 years?”

Now that the years of struggling to land roles are behind him, what’s the plan?

“I want to have a varied career,” he explains. “I don’t just want to do big studio movies. I don’t just want to do franchises. I want to do indies and theatre one day – I’ve never done that.”

“I certainly don’t want to play psychopaths or sociopaths my whole life,”

“On a general level, I err on the lighter side of life. Although I have moments of solitude and sadness people wouldn’t think of me as a morose dude, you know? I like to try and be happy and make other people happy.”

As well as his school mates, Jamie is friends with a host of British actors, including Robert Pattinson and Eddie Redmayne. It must be hard not to compare yourself to your peers, especially when they are Oscar nominees.

“It gets tricky because there are some jobs that maybe you’ve been circling… but then it’s healthy competition.”

He’d like Eddie to win the Best Actor Oscar, admitting,

“I cried watching the trailer for The Theory Of Everything.”

Later that day, as I reflect on our interview, I keep thinking about a story he told me which sums him up.

“I love talking to black cab drivers in London,”

“I had such a good chat with one the other night when I was smashed. He was telling me all about his family and we were talking about loss; it got really deep. When I got out he said, ‘Can I give you a hug?’ So we hugged.”

Christian Grey, he is not. But will Jamie Dornan still be the kind of guy who hugs cabbies when the hype of Fifty Shades takes hold? We’ll put money on it.

“The last thing I read was Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Actually. I’m still reading it.

« I’m not into posh chocolate. I don’t mind Lindt but I don’t like Green&Black’s; I just want a Crunchie. Beef Hula Hoops are my favourite crisps, followed by Flame-Grilled Steak McCoys. »

“I like a show called Mountain Men [about three men surviving in the wilderness] on the History Channel. I don’t know how people abide watching celebrities on TV. »

“I have a thing where if something is really popular. I don’t want to get involved. Like with Breaking Bad. People were killing me with their chat about it. Eventually I cracked, then we watched it all in like three months. It was brilliant. »

“There’s an arcade game called Big Buck Hunter that I love to play. It’s a fun stimulant when you’re on the beers. »

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new personal photos of Jamie with Thomas Hayo in LA (January)

Dornan, who grew up in Ireland, started as a fashion model.

“My sister had encouraged me to go on this U.K. reality show called ‘Model Behavior.’ I reluctantly went. I didn’t get very far on the show, thankfully. I ended up joining the agency that was behind it, and then I was with them. I never got a huge amount of joy when I was modeling. No disrespect. I didn’t want to be one of those guys modeling when I was in my 40s.”

In his mid-20s, he moved to L.A., where he became pals with struggling Brit actors Andrew Garfield and Eddie Redmayne.

“I really disliked L.A. when I arrived. I thought it was a really weird place. I was just renting an apartment and doing whatever you do when you’re an actor not working in L.A. There was no pressure. The stakes weren’t that high, because we weren’t really getting work. We played a lot of table tennis and volleyball and had nice dinners. What’s the song [‘Drinking in L.A.’] — ‘What the hell am I doing drinking in L.A. at 26?’ We kept singing that.”

Dornan auditioned for the lead in “Rock of Ages,” but it didn’t go too well.

“I had to sing ‘Waiting for a Girl Like You.’ It’s nearly impossible to sing, and I’ve got quite a deep voice when I sing. My audition was at 10 in the morning on the Warner Bros. lot. I convinced myself it would be a good idea to have a bit of whiskey to relax my vocal cords and maybe as a bit of a confidence booster. Suddenly, I took a swig of Jameson and I instantly f–ing puked. So I’m standing with all these executives driving around in golf carts, as I’m vomiting on the lot. It was a bad look. I hadn’t been clever enough to bring mouth wash. And then I had to go in, stinking of whiskey and vomit and proceed to sing ‘Waiting for a Girl Like You,’ which I couldn’t sing. It was the worst situation ever. Obviously, I didn’t hear anything back.”

“I went on a trial at the L.A. Equinox, and I only went twice. Both times Fabio — that guy on the cover of those romance novels — was there. It was the weirdest scene ever I’d seen at the gym. It made me not join. I don’t need to be watching people watch Fabio working out.”

“I liked ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Teen Wolf.’ I loved John Hughes movies. I had two older sisters, and was subjected to them early on, so I ended up liking ‘The Breakfast Club,’ ‘Sixteen Candles’ and ‘Mr. Mom.’ As you get older, your tastes change. ‘Badlands’ is my favorite movie of all time.”

He wants to alternate between studio and indie projects.

“Honestly, I feel so f–ing privileged to work. I’m doing a big studio movie. You can’t take those things for granted. It’s insanity when you think a couple years ago, the stuff I’d audition for and really wanted and didn’t get. That’s the madness to this industry.”

Jamie’s trainer, Neil McTeggart, talks about him:

Talking exclusively to heat, the man responsible for Jamie’s fit body – Neil McTeggart from IronFit in Belfast – says,

“Jamie was always a skinny kid, he’s very lean.”

“We do various workout programmes, like street work, which focus on body weight. Rather than using a lot of equipment, you use your body as your gym. We take the best moves out of things like yoga, gymnastics and body-building. It’s all about kettle bells, climbing ropes and doing gymnastic rings. Diet-wise, it’s not restrictive.”

Jamie’s been training at IronFit with Neil (and another trainer, Niall Greenan, who actually went to school with Jamie) since he bagged his role in The Fall back in 2013.