Yesterday I was so focused with having Allegiant feelings that night time came and I had no idea what my Blog post for today should be. I freaked. So I grabbed my phone and started trolling my Twitter feed to see if there was any news worth making fun of. When, lo and behold, I stumbled upon this little piece of news: Jamie Dornan will play Christian Grey in .
I really wanted to make fun of this. Really wanted to. But I find myself unable to. Damn! I’ve read the books. All three of them. Back-to-back. They are as addictive as crack. But that doesn’t mean they are good. On the contrary. They are so baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. I understand why gazillion of women have been buying / downloading this books. But, honestly, can someone hit EL James in the head with a dictionary? And also with a how-to-write-a-passable-book manual just for good measure? So, yeah, I publicly admit to having read the books, but I only recommend them if you want to have fun. If you actually want to read a book, go find something else.
When the movie was announced, I was so happy. Not for the movie itself, but for all the fun I was going to have around it. Fan casting was a fangirl dream come true, when the rumor mill started, I was in paradise reading all the comments. Then Dakota Johnson happened.
Ok, I haven’t seen her in anything, but she’s so not how I pictured Ana to look like.
Then came that fateful day when Charlie Hunnam was cast as the kinky millionaire.
Really??? Thanks Hollywood for making my decision easier. I wasn’t planning on watching the movie. Just maybe at home, with Gwen, some drinks and a huge bucket of pop-corn to laugh our asses of. Now with Hunnam, I was glad I was taking that approach.
But an later and citing things he really should have though of before signing the contract (very un-Christian Grey if you ask me, who has a thing for lengthy, detailed contracts) we found ourselves bereft. We had no Christian.
And the fun begun all over again!!! The Matt Bomer lovers had a field day!
But yesterday, they saw their dreams crushed again. Sexy Irishman Jamie Dornan got tied down to play Fifty (pun intended!). And I saw my resolve crumble a little. Just from his photos and some YouTube vids, Jamie could be quite good as Christian. This movie might not suck after all. Damn. Am I actually excited about this whole thing now?
So let’s review Jamie Dornan. Shall we?
Dornan played Sheriff Graham Humbert (The Huntsman) in “Once Upon a Time”; he’s also played a serial killer in BBC Two crime drama “The Fall,” and he appeared in Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”. Oh! And he modeled for Calvin Klein’s underwear line, so he is used to parading himself semi-nekkid in front of the camera.
Apparently, neither Universal nor Dornan himself have come out to actually confirm this, but Kate Mara did (WTF?).
I know what you are thinking: stop talking nonsense and give us the Jamie goods! (that sounded better in my head).
Ok, let me oblige.
Nice voice, sexy accent and plays the Huntsman. As the Evil Queen says on minute 1:30, “he’s perfect”!
Modeling for Calvin Klein shirtless and wearing jeans. Ring any bells?
You can now start staling him on .
And, as an image is worth a thousand words, I give you moving pictures!!!
OH! And he also has feels!!!
So, what does your Inner Godess think about Jamie Dornan playing Christian Grey? Did you yield like me and admitted you now want to watch the movie?
