Jamie Dornan Says Making Small Talk at Hollywood Parties Is 'Kind of Exhausting'

Jamie Dornan is getting candid about what it’s really like in Hollywood.

The 38-year-old Fifty Shades actor opened up about his own experience mingling with the stars at celeb parties in an interview with Variety.

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During the chat, he talked about attempting to make small talk at industry parties with strangers.

“I think a lot of us are hiding aspects of ourselves, particularly in Hollywood, and how heightened those interactions are,” he explained.

“It’s a show, and everyone’s on show and trying to give their best version of themselves, and you’re trying to give everybody the hits all the time. It’s kind of exhausting.”

He also opened up about his Fifty Shades experience, and negative reviews compared to massive commercial success.

“I want to try to do as much great work as I can, diverse and interesting work. The thing that I’m probably most famous for is a monsterly successful franchise that was not critically loved. It’s a strange thing going into those films knowing that you’re going to be in a franchise that will probably make so much money and get negatively reviewed, because those books made so much money and were really negatively reviewed,” he said.

Jamie Dornan also talked about moving on from the franchise and fan mail. Here’s what he said…