"Because all of the stuff, like Belfast, Beyond Private or any like well-received more independent stuff I've done the last five or six years, they're only budgeting, they're only paying for those films to be made off my name because I'm in a franchise that made 1.4 billion dollars.
"The thing is every move I have made in my career, post those films, I have only been able to do because of those films," he explained. ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ opens in cinemas on 10 February 2017. While having a lead role in Fifty Shades was not always an easy job, Dornan is still very grateful for what it has allowed him to go on to do. Dragging our minds back out of the gutter, Foley seems confident there’s a big future for VR which will cross over heavily with the movies, remarking the traditional approach needs to be reinvented the train is leaving the station, I think, and travelling really fast. On average, there is a general 50 percent between the good and the bad, but Fifty Shades Darker is on a new level. And we knew that was going to happen so you're watching that play out and at times that's f-ing difficult." Throughout the years, cinema has had its high points and its low points. But you know that the critics will be just you know licking their lips and that's exactly what happened. "Real critics hated the books." He then continued, "You know that you're going to have these movies that are for the fans, that the fans are going to love, that are gonna make a ton of money. Really loved, obsessively loved and despised by every critic," Dornan added. The first, Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian, was published in 2015 and the second, Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian, in 2017.