I mean, that might be slightly more bearable, but my whole thing of being an actor is that we get to embody all these different worlds, and that’s what excites me. I just wouldn’t - and I’m not trying to discredit anyone who’s in this world - but I just couldn’t be an actor who does action film after action film or, indeed, who does comedy after comedy. And one thing with this job is to challenge myself and one thing is to keep a very large element of variety. This is what I want to do next.” I think I have a stronger sense of what’s not right for me. I feel like you don’t have a f-ing clue what’s right until you read it and you’re like, “Oh, this is it. What is your philosophy to choosing roles? I don’t think that’s a bad thing.Īfter “Fifty Shades of Grey,” you had so much international success at the box office. You can’t help but let a little bit of yourself leak into it, especially if you’re doing something different in every take. And listen, I’m not going to be the first person to say when you’re improving - do you bring a large element of yourself into it? That’s a natural thing. I think by fairly early on in the process, you start to get a good idea of who it is that you’re embodying. So yeah, it was crazy, but it was beautiful.Īre you drawing from your personal life in the improv? I’d done a tiny bit of improv in a funny way, but this wasn’t meant to be funny. It’s mad, it’s amazing, it’s unique and none of us had worked like that before. You’re suddenly standing there just trying to tell the truth of these two characters and these two situations. But then, that gives way to … I don’t know, truth. Do whatever you want here.” And you’re even more terrified than you were the first time. You do one thing, and Drake comes over and goes: “Hey, forget everything on the page. I feel like the first take, whatever is in the script came out of my mouth. I just felt so exposed, and I was like, “F-!” I sort of had no idea what was going to happen.Īnd there is a skeleton script. There’s music so you have to raise your levels, talk loudly. The first scene I had was the first time Daphne and Jack meet. I was terrified, because you’re so out of your comfort zone. There was a night shoot in L.A., and I was like, “I’m so scared.” I was actually thinking of running away, like legitimately running away. I genuinely wanted to run for the hills the first night. I’ve played a lot of bad characters and a lot of evil people, but for whatever reason, I was just drawn to the honesty and goodness that I saw in Jack.Ĭan you talk a little about Drake’s process of improvisation? He has an outline, and then the actors fill in the dialogue on the day of shooting. But even on the page, it felt like Jack was probably the better guy, slightly better morally. There was a darkness to Frank, slightly. He was always saying he had this project that he had in mind for me.ĭid you always know you were going to be the nice guy?ĭrake kind of offered it up. He’s a big golf fan.Īnd we were like, “it’s great to do this commercial and everyone’s getting paid and it’s a beautiful piece of work, but it’d be great to do a real movie together.” We played golf when I was in L.A. We were very much aligned in our thinking and approach to art, but also to golf. We went to Azerbaijan four days before Christmas a few years ago, and we just hit it off. I did this Hugo Boss campaign, like a perfume campaign, and Drake directed it. And then we ended up doing an advert together. We were at the same agency so his name popped out a few times. How did Drake Doremus first approach you for “Endings, Beginnings?” Since starring as Christian Grey in “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Dornan has zig-zagged as an actor, choosing character parts in independent movies such as “Anthropoid” and “A Private War.” And he’s psyched about his first major comedic turn in “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” a comedy written by and starring Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo.ĭornan spoke to Variety about “Endings, Beginnings,” which was largely improvised, and why he wasn’t typecast after “Fifty Shades.”
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