Jamie Dornan News Update: 'Fifty Shades' Actor No Longer Interested In Playing Christian Grey? [VIDEO]
Jamie Dornan appears to be done with the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise, even though there's another book that could be adapted.
Dornan filmed Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed back to back recently, adapting the second and third books in the popular series. There's still one more to go, called Grey, but by the sound of it, Dornan is moving on from Christian Grey.
"We have done two movies back to back now, and I'm actually finished with it. I've done Fifty Shades forever," he said, via The Sun. "I move on very fast in my mind. As much as from the outside people think you are synonymous with one character, but I'm very much like, 'Right, that's done' and move on to the next project and worry about that character."
Fifty Shades Darker is set to come out on Feb. 11, 2017 while Fifty Shades Freed is set for release on Feb. 10, 2018. A fourth film has not yet been announced, but Dornan's comments suggest there probably won't be one. Grey is told primarily from Christian Grey's perspective, as opposed to Anastasia's (Dakota Johnson) perspective in the first three.
Dornan also spoke openly about the squabbling between Fifty Shades of Grey book series writer E.L. James and Fifty Shades of Grey movie director Sam Taylor-Johnson.
"There are pressures involved with everyone making a movie of this scale. Not just Sam and Erika, everyone is feeling the pressure," he said. "Everyone is trying to complete their role as best they can. For Erika these are her babies, these mean more than her to anyone else . . . There is pressure making these movies. Sometimes you need a bit of angst and pressure to make things happen."
