From playing a serial killer in The Fall to getting up to all sorts of naughty antics in Fifty Shades Of Grey, Jamie Dornan has never shied away from unconventional roles.
However, the 31-year-old actor told The Guardian recently that he would welcome a more run-of-the-mill job, despite picking up some very handy skills on the Fifty Shades set.
“There are a couple of classic knots I know now and I’ve put them to good use far too many times recently. In fact, I’d like to do a job where I don’t have to tie women to beds.”
The Northern Ireland actor made his name in the modelling industry, becoming well-known for sending temperatures soaring in a Calvin Klein ad, but while many struggle to make the transition between the two sectors, Dornan makes no apologies about his past.
“I never felt I was trying to prove anything apart from to myself. But I come at it from a funny angle. Although it looks like I’ve only been acting a few years, we’re talking hundreds and hundreds of failed auditions. I look back on it now and I don’t know how anyone gets through the rejection.I was lucky. If I hadn’t been getting paid to model I definitely would have stopped. I would fly off, do a shoot here and there, get paid well, then go back to preparing – and failing – for auditions and meetings,” he explained.
“I think I’ve done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. But that tag – underwear model – I just can’t get rid of it. And it’s such a bizarre, specific thing – underwear. It’s like I never modelled clothes.”
