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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and Media Correspondent

Jamie Dornan fled to rural hideaway after ‘ridicule’ over Fifty Shades of Grey

Jamie Dornan at the Baftas in 2023
Jamie Dornan hid away in a house owned by director Sam Taylor-Johnson after the critical response to Fifty Shades of Grey. Photograph: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP

Jamie Dornan fled to a rural hide­away when critics panned his performance in Fifty Shades of Grey, the actor has revealed. An empty house – offered as a retreat by his director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and her actor husband, Aaron – allowed him to avoid the “ridicule” that followed the release of the film in 2015.

“I hid,” he admits to Lauren Laverne in a wide-ranging and “very emotional” interview this weekend.

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