Jamie Dornan Discusses Auditions and Acting

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.