Jamie Dornan
Actor Jamie Dornan arrives for the screening of the movie 'Fifty Shades of Grey' at the 65th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 11, 2015. Reuters/Stefanie Loos

Before Jamie Dornan became famous for his role of a kinky billionaire in the film “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the actor was a very well known television actor. He played the role of a serial killer in the hit Netflix series “The Fall." The Irish actor confessed to stalking a woman in real life to prepare for his negative role of Paul Spector in the television series.

"Hold on, this is a really bad reveal: I, like, followed a woman off the train one day to see what it felt like to pursue someone like that," the 32-year-old actor is quoted as saying in an exclusive interview with Los Angeles Times. The actor then also jokingly asked if he could get arrested for confessing to this crime publicly. So how did Dornan feel playing a stalker in real life?

Dornan told the website that he felt "exciting, in a really sort of dirty way" but also added that his tryst with stalking helped him immensely to prepare for his role and also made him aware that his actions were wrong. "I'm sort of not proud of myself," the actor told the website. The actor said it was “intriguing and interesting to enter that process of 'What are you following her for?' and 'What are you trying to find out?'"

For Dornan, preparing for a particular role is a lot of hard work. The actor has revealed in his previous interviews that he frequented sex dungeons in a bid to prepare for his role in the film “Fifty Shades of Grey”. The actor saw various people perform acts of Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS) (BDSM) that helped him prepare for the role of kinky billionaire Grey.

In “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Dornan acts opposite Dakota Johnson, who plays the female lead of Anastasia Steele in the film. The film was a huge box office success and has two more sequels lined up. However, the film's director Sam Taylor-Johnson will not be returning for the sequels - “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed.”

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