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Jamie Dornan Reveals His ‘50 Shades’ Era Forced Him into Hiding · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Jamie Dornan was catapulted into global fame overnight after being
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Speaker 2: cast in twenty fifteen's Fifty Shades of Gray trilogy as
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Speaker 2: Christian Gray, and you might think that his memories of
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Speaker 2: that era are nothing positive, but he did confess on
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Speaker 2: the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast it was actually trying time.
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Speaker 2: He received rave reviews for his prior gig on the
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Speaker 2: series of The Fall, leading to the opportunity to start
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Speaker 2: in Fifty Shades, which wasn't received nearly as well by critics.
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Speaker 2: He said, I hid. I went from positive career altering
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Speaker 2: reviews and nominations and all the madness that The Fall
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Speaker 2: brought to ridicule. I knew that fifty Shades came with baggage.
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Speaker 2: The reality was it would make a ton of money
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Speaker 2: and fans would love it, critics would despise it. That's
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Speaker 2: what happened with the books, and that's what we were making.
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Speaker 2: We were staying truthful to the books, so we knew
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Speaker 2: what that would be. But Jamie also clarifies over all
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Speaker 2: he absolutely positively has no regrets in deciding to say
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Speaker 2: yes to fifty Shades, as it changed his life for
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Speaker 2: the better. His latest film, it's called A Hunting in Venice.
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Speaker 2: It's on VOD that's
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