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Jamie Dornan fled to rural hideaway after ‘ridicule’ over Fifty Shades of Grey
Christian Grey actor tells Desert Island Discs how response to the box office hit forced him to seek refuge in the countryside
The star of television hits The Tourist and The Fall tells Laverne, host of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, that he and his wife, the performer and musician Amelia Warner, together with their first baby, Dulcie, concealed themselves until reactions died down. The Northern Irish actor tells Laverne he does not regret taking the role of Christian Grey and explains that he may have been toughened up early by the death of his mother Lorna, a nurse, when he was 16, and the trauma of losing four close friends in a road accident soon afterwards. Struggling to hold back tears, the star, who plays Pa in Kenneth Branagh’s film Belfast, recalls how his father, Jim, a renowned obstetrician who died during the pandemic, first broke the news of his mother’s terminal illness to him, sitting in the family car after a rugby game, and how his sisters went on to get him through the loss.
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