Even when you consider that he physically removed himself from society and referred to the sequels as “damnation to come,” Jamie Dornan did open up about whether or not he wishes he’d never done the “Fifty Shades” movies at all, and the answer might be somewhat surprising. He did say that he still feels like reviews of projects he’s done since playing Christian Grey feel like they have to mention the franchise. “I have just had very glowing reviews for recent work and there wouldn’t be many of them that don’t mention ‘Fifty Shades’ in them,” Dornan admitted. “A lot of reviews are like, ‘He’s great, but lest we forget when he wasn’t great…'” Does he truly regret appearing in the movies, though? He does not; as he put it, “But regrets that I did them, no.”
Dornan’s co-star, Dakota Johnson, has also addressed the fact that while the “Fifty Shades” movies will follow her everywhere, she doesn’t fully regret them because they did give her career quite a boost. In 2021, Johnson was asked if she regretted the movies, and answered thusly: “[The regret] comes in waves. But this project is not going to be my swan song. It has put my life on a path that I didn’t plan to go down, but I do feel proud of it. And the films have allowed me to do so many different projects and travel so much. In the end, ‘Fifty Shades’ has plopped me in a world that I really wanted to be in.”
