Jamie Dornan: 'I don't like my physique. Who does?'

Jamie Dornan has complained he doesn't like his body - as he posed topless for the cover of Interview magazine.

The former Calvin Kelin underwear model - who will star as billionaire heartthrob Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades Of Grey movie - showed off his rippling muscles as he posed in a tiny pair of Y-fronts in the bath for the hip magazine.

But Jamie, 31, told the mag: "I don't like my physique. Who does? I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid."

The hunky Irish actor insisted he is very different to the hero of EL James's hit erotic novel, Christian Grey.

He said: "I think there was so much more to Christian that we covered - someone who is careful to keep himself in shape, someone who spends obscene amounts of money on presenting himself. A lot of that work was done in the gym and with costume.

"We didn't talk about particulars of the way he would move. But I'm quite awkward in a suit because I don't have an opportunity to wear a suit very often, and this is a guy who lives in a suit - the best suit. That has to have an effect. But when you end up in a suit for 80 per cent of the filming process, you become pretty comfortable with it."

Asked about exposing his body on the big screen for the steamy film, Jamie laughed: "I'm still auditioning.

"I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters. And I'm happy to get a chance to play Christian."

 

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.