# Jamie Dornan on Auditions, Singing and Fifty Shades

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2086839303951249626
- Source account: [@JDFansite](https://x.com/JDFansite)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 2026-08-10
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades) Hi I'm Jamie Dornan and something about me that nobody knows is that I when I was three years old I split my head open and I actually had to have plastic surgery when I was three on the middle of my head because it was so sort of gruesome and I've got a big scar here that nobody really notices.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=24) The first thing I ever auditioned for was Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette and I got it and it was my first ever job.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=31) It lured me into this false sense that like it's really easy to get work but it was my first audition so you know I had a lot of terrible ones subsequently.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=42) The worst audition I've ever had was Rock of Ages.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=44) I thought it was a good idea to bring a little bit of whiskey to like soften my vocal cords and maybe give me a bit of confidence and I vomited but they liked me I think and they kept making me sing and I kept saying I'm not getting there but they kept going no I think you've got it man let's go again let's go again

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=63) I was like dude I can't I can't do it that was a terrible one.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=69) Did I get stage fright when I sang Wildemount in time?

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=71) Yes if suddenly you're in a pub and there's a lot of the main cast there and Christopher Walken, John Landau, Emily Blunt of course a load of extras and crew and suddenly it just changes everything you know something you're like no no no I can't do this and the thing is Emily Blunt is a singer like a proper singer and

[1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=92) then so knowing I'd have to sing up with her it's it was it was kind of brutal but you know I got through it.

[1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=100) It is a bit of a relief playing someone with an Irish accent but it's a different Irish accent to mine so it's actually it's like the equivalent of someone from you know Boston having to do a you know a Kentucky accent I guess.

[1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=114) There's these green fields and there's us whatever that is.

[1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=118) I almost feel an extra pressure when I have to play an Irish guy like I've done it a couple times isn't my own because I feel like I'm going to be judged more harshly on people from Ireland.

[2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=133) ABBA in front of the Peloton was again something that's happened during lockdown I think.

[2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=139) One of my best friends from Belfast from home was texting me going like I just realised that working out to like songs and musicals and is like the way forward and I can only work out Hamilton now and I was like really well I just hadn't thought of that so I gave it a crack.

[2:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=154) You know it worked it worked for me it was good it kept me kept me in the zone somehow. I've only seen the Fifty Shades movies I think I've seen them all once when I had to see them to do press to know what was going on particularly two and three which we shot simultaneously back to back and interwine.

[2:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5kDl4VnXUD81/en/jamie-dornan-on-auditions-singing-and-fifty-shades?t=175) I don't see them very often when I'm flicking the channels and if I did 100% I would not be stopping no I would just flick on.