He’s becoming one of the hottest male actors in the industry, and Jamie Dornan is fascinated by the universal appeal of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” franchise. The handsome Irish star told ELLE magazine’s February 2015 issue, “I wonder what it is about this set of books that has, excuse my pun, penetrated the global market. What is it that’s just so on the pulse of what women want?”
“I think a lot of people try to undermine the whole thing. But it’s hard to undermine something that’s so successful. Mass appreciation doesn’t always equate to something good. Think of Hitler! But I think, in this case, it must. It simply must. There’s got to be merit in it if so many people agree.”
Still, Jamie has received plenty of backlash for taking the gig- “The other day, this woman came up and started shouting at me, ‘Matt Bomer’s the real Christian Grey.’ And I was like, um, okay.”
“I mean, even if you cast Matt Bomer, or Alexander Skarsgård, or Charlie Hunnam, or any of those other guys—we’d all just be doing our best, you know? Christian Grey—he isn’t a real person. He’s a super- hero—a myth. He’s like Bigfoot! He’s unbelievable. He’s unattainable. There’s no actor in the world who could live up to that.”
