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Jamie Dornan admits he knew ‘critics would despise’ the Fifty Shades of Grey films and he would ‘get wrecked’ prior to accepting the role of Christian


Jamie Dornan has admitted he knew ‘critics would despise’ the Fifty Shades of Grey films, before he agreed to be in them.
The Irish actor, 41, confessed that, prior to accepting the role of bondage-obsessed billionaire Christian Grey, he knew the movie would be a commercial success, but that he would ‘get wrecked.’

Jamie became a household name when he starred in the 2015 movie, with sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed following in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
The movie star explained how it wasn’t an instant ‘yes’ when the lead role was offered to him just five weeks before filming was scheduled to commence.

Jamie revealed that he turned to friends, family members and ‘a lot’ of fellow actors for advice on whether he should agree to star in the franchise because he was hyper aware that it came with ‘baggage’.
Jamie discussed being cast in the franchise during an episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast which was recorded prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.

On accepting the role, Jamie admitted: ‘It wasn’t an instant yes by any means. It needed to be talked through…I sought counsel from friends, family, a lot of actors.’
Belfast star Jamie was not the first actor to have been offered the part, with Charlie Hunnam originally cast opposite Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele.

Yet when Charlie pulled out at the last minute due to scheduling conflicts, Jamie was the next star in line, with the unexpected opportunity resulting in some mixed feelings for him.
Jamie explained: ‘When I didn’t get it, I felt a bit of relief because I knew that guy is going to get wrecked here. He [Charlie] maybe felt the same.
‘Suddenly there I was, but with way less time to make a decision. I got cast five weeks before we started filming. I knew that it came with all that baggage, that the reality was it would make a ton of money and the fans would love and the critics would despise it.
‘That’s what happened with the books and that’s what we were making. We were staying truthful to the books, and we knew what that would be.’
The actor added: ‘Movies that are made for the fans that fans love can be seen as a success. I’m grateful that Dakota and I have managed to come out [in the years since] and make work that people still like and have had some of those said critics do a bit of a 180.’
Back in June 2022, Jamie’s co-star Dakota Johnson, 33, described the making of Fifty Shades of Grey as ‘psychotic’ and insisted the trilogy lacked the sexual intensity she envisaged when agreeing to take on her starring role as Anastasia ‘Ana’ Steele.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, Dakota also explained how making the trilogy became complicated in part because the author of the books, E.L. James maintained creative control over the film adaptations.
She said: ‘She [James] had a lot of creative control, all day, every day, and she just demanded that certain things happen.’
‘There were parts of the books that just wouldn’t work in a movie, like the inner monologue, which was at times incredibly cheesy. It wouldn’t work to say out loud. It was always a battle. Always.
Dakota said of her three film contract: ‘It just became something crazy. There were a lot of different disagreements.
‘I haven’t been able to talk about this truthfully ever, because you want to promote a movie the right way, and I’m proud of what we made ultimately and everything turns out the way it’s supposed to, but it was tricky.’
When asked if she regrets her starring role, she replied: ‘No. I don’t think it’s a matter of regret. If I had known… If I had known at the time that’s what it was going to be like, I don’t think anyone would’ve done it.
‘It would’ve been like, ‘Oh, this is psychotic.’ But no, I don’t regret it.’
Though she doesn’t regret working on the racy franchise of films, the Texan born star said that the original film she signed on to wasn’t exactly the one they ended up doing.
She said: ‘I’m a sexual person, and when I’m interested in something, I want to know so much about it.’
‘That’s why I did those big naked movies. I signed up to do a very different version of the film we ended up making.’

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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