Jamie's Twitter Q&A for 'Fifty Shades of Grey'

Question: Christian Grey likes coffee and Ana likes Tea. Which do you prefer tea or coffee?

@JamieDornan: ".@FSOG_UK in morning coffee, as day goes on tea. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What do you think about other guys from the cast? Luke, Victor?

@JamieDornan: "@JamieDornan: .@michalmalcat Luke and Victor are legends #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What was your favorite scene to film and why?

@JamieDornan: ".@FiftyShadesFilm the negotiation scene #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Wanted to say that you were perfect as Christian in EVERY WAY.... EVERY!

@JamieDornan: ".@50Latersbaby Thank you in every way #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What is your life philosophy?

@JamieDornan: ".@ulusoylife "Take it easy but take it." #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Have you "stolen" anything from Christian's wardrobe?"

@JamieDornan: ".@JDornanGreece I took one t-shirt #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Hi, Jamie! Do you think the fans will be happy with the movie?

@JamieDornan: ".@PukeUnicorns_ I hope so #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What makes you the happiest?

@JamieDornan: ".@zpetit19 Tequila and my family. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What's your favorite movie?

@JamieDornan: ".@PaulineGiraud24 If I had to pick one, Badlands #AskJamieDornan"

Q: How are you feeling about people finally seeing the movie?

@JamieDornan: ".@mervgerger Excited because I know you've all been waiting a really long time. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Do you like cheesecake?

@JamieDornan: ".@zjmstyles I love cheesecake, but keep it basic #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What was your favourite thing about filming in Vancouver?

@JamieDornan: ".@lustingforjamie The sushi! #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Who was the funniest person to work with on the Fifty Shades of Grey set?

@JamieDornan: ".@LatersBaby2 Seamus McGarvey who was our cinematographer #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Opinions on chocolate covered strawberries?

@JamieDornan: ".@happiIymaria They're very good! #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Mr Grey has many toys outside of the playroom. Which is your favorite, the Audis, helicopter, glider, boat, etc?

@JamieDornan: ".@FiftyShadesFilm The glider. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What's your favourite song from the #FiftyShades soundtrack?

@JamieDornan: ".@siredbydamon @MovieTickets @elliegoulding's "Love Me Like You Do" #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What's the last picture you took on your phone?

@JamieDornan: ".@itsJamieDornans It was a photo of my daughter, I take about a thousand a day. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Would you rather be chased by one horse sized duck or by 100 duck sized horses? X

@JamieDornan: ".@vixennicks What do they want from me!? Probably the horse sized duck #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What is one thing people would be surprised to know about you?

@JamieDornan: ".@Nadya__Kovaleva I'm asthmatic. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What sports do you play? :D

@JamieDornan: ".@SammieeeSideUp Golf, Skiing, Football (soccer). #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What's your favorite cereal?

@JamieDornan: "@meganisugly Chocolate Crunchy Nut Clusters #AskJamieDornan"

Q: How was the first day on the set ? #AskJamieDornan

@JamieDornan: ".@Gleek_1897 Mildly terrifying. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: How did it feel like entering the theatre full of amazingly proud fans yesterday morning? Your performance was astounding!

@JamieDornan: ".@Mandy_ish It felt special and surreal. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What do u love about Ireland?

@JamieDornan: ".@butterparisfly The people and the Guinness. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What did you wanna be as a kid?

@JamieDornan: ".@youthbiebers A park ranger. I love green space. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Hiya Jamie what is your favorite thing to do when you go to New York?

@JamieDornan: ".@TraceyH34 Eat burgers. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: What is one thing you can't leave without that you always take with you?

@JamieDornan: ".@WesleyftGrey My wife. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Jamie, we're all so glad you're doind this again! How do you feel? Not too tired?

@JamieDornan: "@JamieDornan_org I'm exhausted but looking forward to the premieres."

Q: What is your favorite Beyoncé song right now?

@JamieDornan: "@BeharLovesB Crazy in Love or Drunk in Love. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones???

@JamieDornan: ".@anna_shkutan I love them both. #AskJamieDornan"

Q: Now will '50 Shades' give me a big 'ol boner the same way 'The Fall' did?

@JamieDornan: ".@JennyJohnsonHi5 Bigger than you know how to handle. #AskJamieDornan"

@JamieDornan: "Thanks so much everyone, sorry that I didn't get to all of you. That was fun! #AskJamieDornan"

Jamie Shared New Picture on Twitter

@JamieDornan: "With the boys @Ironfit_tv down @T13 . Gave them 2 seconds to take this picture before I collapsed & cried . #ironfit"

@JamieDornan: "I meant @T13tv"

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'The Fall' Panel at TCA 2015 (January 7th)

Update: Added more new HQ pictures and live blog.

@netflix: "#TheFall's @GillianA and @JamieDornan at #TCA2015. Join us for a Twitter Q&A at 10:30 A.M. PST #TheFallOnNetflix"

Full Live Blog

9:46 AM: “I think you’ve really got to cling to what makes sense to you,” Dornan says of the humanity in Paul. “You have to find something likeable…there are qualities to him that make him somewhat normal, and I think we can understand being relatively good father and not a terrible husband for the most part.” He also notes he read books to get inside the mind of a serial killer. 

9:48 AM: “He’s very much an ordinary man, and that’s disconcerting to people,” Cubitt says of making Paul more realistic versus more surreal, a la Hannibal, etc. “It’s a deliberate choice to make someone who is closer to the reality of the situation.” 

9:50 AM: Were Dornan and Anderson on the phone with each other when they filmed the final scene of the first season? Nope. Dornan says Cubitt was playing Stella, and Anderson cracks that he does a great impersonation at her. 

9:53 AM: Cubitt says he pitched THE FALL for a 12-episode first season to BBC. When they picked it up, they told him they could only make five episodes for season 1, but he didn’t have to end the tale there. 

9:54 AM: Could the show continue, perhaps even without Dornan? Whether Paul makes it through the season, Cubitt says, “I’m very confident there will be a third season.” There’s official stuff to work through with BBC, but he’s hopeful it’ll happen. 

9:56 AM: Does Cubitt have an end planned? “As a writer, reaching that point when you [eventually] come to the point when you’re going to end this thing, you have to do what you think is best…you can’t please everyone,” he says. 

9:57 AM: Cubitt says he thinks we’re now geared to watching things in bigger clumps. “From that point of view, it’s a good model,” he says of having the show launch in America on Netflix. Anderson says while people talk on social media about being so excited for the next episode of show, etc., but being able to binge a show means they don’t have to, so you don’t risk people forget to tune in, etc. And the way people have watched television has shifted throughout her run: “X-FILES was the beginning of appointment television, this is the end of appointment television.” 

10:00 AM: Anderson loves working on this show, calling it her favorite thing to work on right now. “I felt strongly while doing the first season that Stella was one of my favorite characters I’ve ever played.” 

10:01 AM: Do they binge-watch shows? Anderson says her daughter tried to get her to binge-watch BREAKING BAD, but they didn’t get very far. She did make it through SERIAL during the winter break. Dornan is a few episodes behind on SERIAL, but he did binge BREAKING BAD after the finale. 

10:05 AM: “I was never in a room, situation, or audition where I was in the conversation to play someone like him,” Dornan says of playing Paul. He notes that while he takes complicated roles, he’s also a “complicated dude.” 

10:06 AM: “I think it’s quite typical teenage behavior,” Cubitt says of Katie’s relationship with Paul. “To use a cliche, she’s playing with fire, and she doesn’t quite realize it.” Things come to a head with that storyline in season 2. 

10:07 AM: Cubitt confirms he wrote a lot of the role of Stella with Anderson in mind. He notes it’s a dream come true to get your ideal actor to play a character. What characteristics specifically did he write for Anderson? “I’m wondering the same thing as well,” Anderson laughed. “She is incredible focused, understated, detailed…with an underpinning of emotion for the most part she chooses to keep in check,” Cubitt says. He points out when you first see Stella in season 1, she was wearing a facial mask and sweatpants. 

10:11 AM: “The creation of a female character in order to investigate [the crime]…I had, broadly speaking, feminist intentions at the start of that,” Cubitt says of focusing the show on a female who was searching for a male killer. “These things work if you bring something fresh to them.” 

10:14 AM: “We were approached and we had a deal that fell through for a remake of THE FALL,” Cubitt says. He says that since we share a language, we shouldn’t need to remake it for America. 

10:15 AM: What’s the different between filming in America versus overseas? Anderson says it feels more personal there, and in America, it feels a little bit like “cattle ranching.” 

10:16 AM: “You have to sort of rely on professionalism and see it for what it is,” Dornan says. “You’re still human beings, and it’s still odd positions to be putting people in, often literally with THE FALL. I personally do everything in my power to make the moments before or after the take very light…I don’t find it very personally comfortable to stay in the headspace of someone like [Paul] for too long. A lot of apologies. If I’m doing something especially heinous to an actress, I apologize and say, ‘I’m probably not going to derive a huge amount of pleasure from this.'”

'The Fall' Netflix Twitter Chat With Jamie and Gillian Anderson

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Jamie's Answers

@JamieDornan: "@MarinaSalazar21 Are there certain characteristics you admire for one another's character?" Her strength & determination #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@miz_nats Do you think Paul had any compassion at all?" No, I think he is void of compassion. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@XO_BB_XO some of the fans want Paul to actually get away with this & live a normal life. Is that weird?" That seems to be a common opinion

@JamieDornan: "@Starbuck_Scully Other than the characters you play, who is/was your favorite character on the show?" Stella, obviously. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@dornanjohnsons What is the most difficult thing about playing Paul?" Inhabiting the mind of someone so sick. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@MarinaSalazar21 What intrigued you most about your character to want to play them?" The killer's vicinity of his home life to his murders.

@JamieDornan: "@summer0001 what's the best part of making this show?" Getting to work with @GillianA who is sat right beside me. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@TeamJamieD Was it challenging to get into the character of Paul Spector?" Very challenging but ultimately rewarding. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@Emma92uk do you think there's something "more" between Stella and Paul?" You'll have to watch to find out... #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@MrsSaraTurner Were you at all surprised how big #TheFall has become?" No, because they're best scripts I've ever read. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@kzatorska Any films from last year/this year that you would say are a must see?" Whiplash. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@shadeshar In one word how would you describe your character" Monster. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@JennyJohnsonHi5 I LOVE The Fall!!! Gives me a big 'ol TV boner. Will there be a third season?" Thank you. Potentially more boners to come.

@JamieDornan: "Thanks everyone for your questions. Wish I could have gotten to all of you.  Season 2 premieres on @netflix January 16! #TheFallOnNetflix"

Some of Gillian Anderson's Answers

@GillianA: "@Starbuck_Scully Other than the characters you play, who is/was your favorite character on the show? #TheFallOnNetflix" Spector.

@GillianA: "@sssfallenangel @GillianA #TheFallOnNetflix favorite scene with @JamieDornan ?" If I told you it would be a spoiler. I'll say the long one.

@GillianA: "@shadesofdornan @GillianA @JamieDornan do you think on some level Stella relates to Spector? #TheFallOnNetflix" Definitely.

@GillianA: "@rachelfardy @JamieDornan @GillianA how about a selfie?  #TheFallOnNetfix" banana added for scale ;) pic.twitter.com/T2JrugFjjp

New Tweets and Instagram Post From Jamie

@JamieDornan: "Live in the uk? Paid your tv licence? If yes, then don't miss the 2nd series of The Fall starting tonight at 9pm on BBC 2. #TheFall"

@JamieDornan: "Oh, there might be a new 50 Shades trailer today too!" 

jamiedornan: "Tonight at 9pm on BBC2"