Jamie Dornan is discovering the humor within the web’s harsh response to the celebrity-filled viral “Imagine” video he appeared in final month, saying that Kristen Wiig even apologized for asking him to hitch her within the misguided effort to carry folks’s spirits amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“Listen, it’s a funny thing. Not being on social media, I wasn’t really that aware of the negative reaction to it, but I was made aware quite quickly by some mates,” Dornan advised Shane Todd on his “Tea With Me” podcast Wednesday. “Look, it was early on in the lockdown process.”
The “50 Shades of Grey” actor added that Wiig, who he acquired to know after they filmed the comedy “Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar,” has since apologized for asking him to be part of the notorious video, which options celebrities singing traces of the John Lennon tune whereas self-isolating of their sprawling mansions. It has been closely criticized for its tone-deafness (each actually and metaphorically), as so many Americans have misplaced their jobs and are struggling to pay hire.
“Kristen texted me a couple of days later going, ‘Sorry,’” he laughed. “And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ and she said, ‘Well, there’s been a lot of negative stuff, we were just trying to do a nice thing.’”
While Dornan defended the video, saying that Wiig and Gal Gadot’s purpose was merely to “lift people’s spirits,” he additionally addressed the problematic facets.
“I’ll tell you what the problem was — I literally did mine in the toilet of my house,” he confessed. “Quite clearly, people had escaped to their second home. There’s too much acreage in the background, too many beautiful trees swinging, clearly by an ocean, that sort of craic. I was quite aware of that.” He added that he tried “to make it normal.”
Although Dornan hasn’t appeared on the unfavorable feedback persons are saying in regards to the video on-line, he couldn’t assist however chuckle on the ribbing he acquired from pals.
“One of my mates, another actor, texted me saying, ‘Yeah, I’m just watching this video with these pompous, self-righteous, wanker actors singing about — Oh,’” he laughed.
“I just got dragged along with it,” he stated of the video. “But listen, what are we going to do?”
Watch Dornan’s full interview on the podcast beneath.
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Neil Peart
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Harry Hains
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