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.

The first thing I ever auditioned for was Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette and I got it and it was my first ever job.

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.

The worst audition I've ever had was Rock of Ages.

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

I was like dude I can't I can't do it that was a terrible one.

Did I get stage fright when I sang Wildemount in time?

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

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.

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.

There's these green fields and there's us whatever that is.

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.

ABBA in front of the Peloton was again something that's happened during lockdown I think.

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.

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.

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.