The Holywood (Co Down) boy was last on our screens in the Belfast-set BBC crime drama The Fall, as grief counsellor Paul Spector by day and a sexually motivated serial killer by night. The movie - about the seduction of virginal college student Anastasia Steele (Johnson) by a beautiful billionaire with a penchant for sadomasochism (Dornan) - was originally set for release in August 2014, but has now been pushed back to Valentine's Day weekend 2015 Production begins in Vancouver on December 2.ĭornan was invited to audition for the role after Charlie Hunnam pulled out. I can’t believe films that don’t invoke the sexual side of it. I’m not saying we had a playroom, but I’m not shocked by.
The former Calvin Klein model spent his early days frequently undressing for the camera and told the magazine he wasn't at all anxious about the graphic sex scenes he and Dakota Johnson are about to film. “But beyond anything else, I was really f***ing excited.”
Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Upĭornan would instantly be propelled to international stardom. “I was sort of pretending I wasn’t waiting, but the phone was in my hand, halfway to my ear,” he told Entertainment Weekly.Īs his pregnant wife, actress Amelia Warner, slept upstairs, the film’s director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy) phoned with the good news.ĭaily Headlines & Evening Telegraph Newsletter It is the first time the actors have been photographed together since they were cast in the film adaptation of EL James' erotic literary saga, following months of speculation, production delays and a major casting U-turn.Ī stern-looking Dornan can be seen brooding and clutching his trademark silk tie while Johnson bites her lip.īut the man who will soon become the object of women's fantasies around the world has said he was in his pyjamas, watching reruns of Storage Wars, when he was anxiously praying for the phone to ring. The first photograph of Jamie Dornan in character as Christian Grey has been revealed - along with an amusing admission the Co Down actor was in his pyjamas when he got the big phonecall from Hollywood.ĭornan, 31, posed with co-star Dakota Johnson, playing Anastasia Steele in the much-hyped Fifty Shades of Grey movie, for the front cover of US magazine Entertainment Weekly.