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Jamie Dornan is opening up about his role in the critically praised comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar and if he’d be open to doing a sequel.

The 38-year-old actor chatted with Variety about getting to show off his comedic chops in the movie and that big musical number.

If you’ve seen the movie, which is available now on VOD, you know that Jamie rips his shirt off at one point. See it happen in the GIF below.

“We did that just two, maybe three times. And the first time it didn’t rip it all,” Jamie said. “I’m sure that footage will find its way onto some sort of blooper reel. So we had to like, cut it so I could rip it. Listen, even Hulk Hogan apparently cuts it at the top. So if Hulk Hogan needs help with ripping a shirt off, I definitely need help. I don’t even think I get ever got it off of the bottom.”

Jamie also discussed the possibility of a sequel.

“That’s a Mumolo/Wiig question,” he said, referring to the film’s writers and stars Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig. “I was hopeful that they weren’t gonna just turn and kill Edgar at some point towards the end. Because I was like, if this hits and people like it, there’s an appetite… I think they’ve definitely knocked around a few titles, let’s put it that way. We all had a bit of fun one day, coming up with destinations for for them to go on after. So listen, if they want to go again, and they want me to be involved, it would be the easiest yes of my life.”

Find out if that’s actually Jamie doing the singing and dancing!

Jamie Dornan has a big musical moment in the new movie Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar and fans might be wondering if that’s actually him doing the singing and dancing on screen.

The movie’s director Josh Greenbaum opened up to Slate about working with Jamie and how much of that scene needed a double.

“It’s almost all him other than when we make it obvious that it’s not. All the singing is him. He’s got a pretty incredible voice, which I think, when we wrote it and cast it, I didn’t even know. I figured, ‘Oh, we’ll probably have someone else sing.’ I didn’t know he had a wonderful voice,” Josh said. “But we started talking more and more, and he was in a band in high school, and it was like, ‘Oh, he can really pull this off.’”

Josh added, “And then the dancing, obviously he’s fully committed. There are a couple of sequences, like when he’s spinning like a baby ballerina and digging himself into the sand, that are obviously doubled. Again, I hope it comes across as clear that part of the joke is it’s clearly not him, but if so, I’m sorry for ruining it for people that’s not him. He’s clearly doing the bulk of the funny tumbling and jumping. But when there’s beautiful, full-split ballet moves, I hate to tell the world, but that’s actually not Jamie.”

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Did you know that Jamie Dornan is a huge fan of The Golden Girls?!

Andy Cohen interviewed the cast of Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar for a new episode of SiriusXM’s Radio Andy and he asked Jamie all about his obsession.

“Jamie, I heard you’re a big Golden Girls fan by the way,” he said.

Jamie replied, “Yeah [laughs] huge. Yeah, I’m not ashamed to admit that. I, you know, I was in an official Estelle Getty fan club. [laughs].”

After finding out that Jamie was 17 at the time, Andy asked, “Wow. And were you struggling with your sexuality?”

“Uh, you know, I wasn’t actually, I was very secure in what I felt I wanted, but I just, it’s funny, like, come on, you, can’t, Golden Girls is so funny and it holds up and I, if I’m channel surfing, I stop every time,” Jamie said. “And this has just reminded me that when I wrapped, these guys sung the theme tune from Golden Girls and changed the lyrics to our experience. And it was unbelievable.”

Andy asked what inspired Jamie to join that fan club when he was 17. The actor responded, “We can legally drink much younger than you guys. So that definitely played a part.”

Jamie also looked back at his short-lived modeling career and his stint on reality TV.

Jamie Dornan is opening up about his early career as a model and his time spent as a reality TV contestant!

In an interview for SiriusXM’s Radio Andy, Jamie shocked his Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar co-stars Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig by revealing that he once appeared on the reality TV show Model Behavior.

The Fifty Shades of Grey actor explained, “The truth behind that Andy, was I’d been at university for a year. I used to play a lot of rugby at school. And I was very sporty and I was playing rugby at uni and drinking a lot. And I decided I was going to drop out of university. ‘Cause it just didn’t, it wasn’t the right space for me at the time.”

Ultimately it was Jamie‘s sister who pushed him to audition for the show. “This was sort of almost pre-reality TV,” he continued. Well, you know, like it wasn’t like, it wasn’t even being pitched to us. It was just like, we didn’t really know what it was. My sister says, ‘You should go.’ And I said, ‘What is it?’ And she says, ‘To be a model.’ And I was like, ‘Why would I want to be a model, what a model,’ like it’s the last, no kid where I’m from grows up wanting to be a model. I’ll tell you that. And so I was like, ‘No, I’m not doing it.’ She’s just do it, do it. And then I convinced one of my mates to come with me.”

“That your parents made you try out for a reality show. This is not what I expected, go on,” Andy joked.

“This is like pre-American Idol,” Jamie added. “This is like, nobody knew we didn’t know what a reality TV show was. It wasn’t even sold as that. And I’m, I convinced him to get out of bed. I went and he got kicked out early doors and I like did all right. I actually didn’t even do that well on the show, but it got me enough to sort of move to London. And that was it. And then like two months later, I was working at a bar full time and I’d moved to London and I convinced everyone to let me like follow some dream. I mean, I, I never wanted to be a model. I hated it, but I’d acted at school and I’d always done that too. So it was, it felt like a bit of a gateway into that. So yeah, it was a crazy time.”

Jamie also recently revealed whether he’d rather be in a book club with Dakota Johnson or Anastasia Steele. Find out who he picked!

Jamie Dornan makes a virtual appearance on Comedy Central’s Stir Crazy with Josh Horowitz!

The 38-year-old actor played a game of “Would You Rather” with Josh and he actually asked him a question he also asked Dakota Johnson during a previous appearance she made on the program.

Josh asked Jamie if he’d rather be in a book club with Dakota, or with her Fifty Shades of Grey character Anastasia Steele. If you don’t know, Jamie and Dakota co-starred as lovers in the Fifty Shades films. When Dakota was asked the same question about Jamie or Christian Grey.

“If she didn’t say me, I’m calling her immediately,” Jamie said, before Josh revealed Dakota picked Jamie.

Jamie first jokingly said “Anastasia!,” before quickly indicating he was joking. He also called Dakota “legitimately funny!”

“She’s a big ‘Would You Rather’ [person],” Jamie revealed, adding she’d pose questions on set during a lull.

Meanwhile, if you missed it, be sure to check out the home that Dakota just moved into with her partner Chris Martin!

Jamie Dornan had a Dad fail in 2020.

The 38-year-old Irish actor opened up to Jimmy Kimmel during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week about how he spent over $300 on the Trolls World Tour movie, which he is in.

“So, this is what happened. You know the countdown two weeks out [from Trolls World Tour] where I constantly tell ‘em, you know I did it for them, I basically pleaded with Universal just to put me in the picture. And so, I was like, ‘It’s coming out in two weeks, guys, daddy’s going to be in this movie.’ ‘It’s coming out next week, guys.’ ‘It’s coming out in three days!’ ‘It’s coming out tomorrow.’,” Jamie recalled.

He added that his daughters were “so excited, like pandemonium excitement in the house. And then it comes out and I’m like, ‘OK I guess I’ll buy it on iTunes or whatever.’ It’s like 17 pounds, that’s like 25 dollars.”

After renting the movie on iTunes, Jamie realized that it was only available for a few more days after that and kept re-renting it as his daughters wanted to see it again and again.

“So, I’m like, ‘Wow, OK,’ buy it, you know they want it. You only get it for 24 hours, the next day they’re like, ‘Hey we want to watch Trolls again!’ I’m like, ‘Oh, sure.’ I’m gonna have to buy it again. I think I bought it 4 or 5 times!” Jamie says.

Then, he learned that he could’ve had it for free!

“After like a week I got in touch with my agent who was like, ‘Oh, by the way, Universal says there’s a code that you use whenever you want to watch Trolls [World Tour]. I was like, ‘Oh great. I’ve already spent like $300.’”

Jamie plays Chaz in the movie, which is available on all digital markets now.

His wife, Amelia Warner, captured a cute pic of Jamie watching the movie with their daughters, Dulcie, Elva and Alberta.

Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo are about to bring the laughs.

The two co-star in Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, a new comedy from the duo who also brought us 2011′s Bridesmaids.

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The movie also stars Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., Fortune Feimster, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rose Abdoo, Vanessa Bayer, Phyllis Smith and Kwame Patterson.

In the movie, which arrives on February 12, lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time…ever.

Along with releasing the trailer on Thursday (January 28), the duo have entered the Oscar race with songwriter Mark Jonathan Davis (or Richard Cheese) with a song called “I Love Boobies,” which Variety provided a tease of with an exclusive.

“I don’t want this to sound like showbiz baloney, but Kristen and Annie are just the best. This was my first big-time Hollywood movie role, and they gave me this amazing opportunity and treated me like royalty the whole time,” he explained of the role.

Lionsgate also submitted a second song from the film, “Welcome to Palm Vista,” written by the duo, along with all other eligible categories, including best picture and original score for composers Christopher Lennertz and Dara Taylor.

Check out photos of Jamie Dornan kissing on the set of the film!

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