Very few men out there care about 50 Shades of Grey. Well, until their better halves all of a sudden started becoming quite adventurous after their nightly read… then it was a welcome literary excursion for many an Irish man.
Anyhow, since the book by EL James hit on a global scale, there has been increasingly excitable talk about the movie and who would play who in said production. First, Pacific Rim and Sons on Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam was cast alongside another newcomer, Dakota Johnson, and then promptly pulled out. Em, so to speak…
Now, Co. Down native Jamie Dornan has been confirmed to be the man to replace Hunnam in the part of a billionaire dirty bastard who’s all about the S&M. Shite, now we have that Rihanna song in our heads…
Doran won a lot of plaudits for his work on the well received RTE production The Fall opposite Gillian Anderson, and was a fan favourite for the part before the initial casting of Hunnam. He’s also been slowly gathering heat, as the slickly dressed execs’ say in Hollywood.
Do we care? Should we care? Well, kind of. It’s always great to see Irish folk do well abroad and this role will catapult Dornan to a level of fame that we haven’t seen since Robert Pattinson slapped on the dentures for Twilight.
From what we’re hearing (we haven’t read the book, but if there were pictures we’d invariably look) this will either be excellent or absolutely atrocious. No pressure then, Jamie.
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