Jamie Dornan’s foray inside a real sex dungeon
IT MAY be dominating the box office this weekend, but Fifty Shades Of Grey’s depiction of sadomasochism has already been scorned as disappointingly tame.
Yet nobody could accuse its star, Jamie Dornan, of not going the extra mile to make his performance as Christian Grey as accurate as possible.
The Irish actor spent a night at a real sex dungeon during filming in Vancouver, witnessing what actually happens in a den of depravity.
The Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal the 32-year-old – whose role in the adaptation of EL James’s best-selling novels is set to bring him international stardom – visited the city’s Rascal’s club, where willing participants can indulge in everything from floggings to being poked with cattle prods.
His night at the club proved an eye-opener. ‘He seemed shocked at what he saw,’ says a source who wants to remain anonymous. ‘There were men bound at the wrists being whipped by leather-clad women; people in stocks, and others tied up in all sorts of ways.
‘Almost everyone was dressed in leather or lingerie. It’s not your average night down the pub.’
Dornan has spoken of meeting prostitutes and observing events at a dungeon in a private home during his research for the role. ‘I went there, he offered me a beer, and they did... whatever they were into,’ he recalled. ‘I saw a dominant with two submissives, and he became our “kink adviser” on the film.’
But Rascal’s set in a former church hall, is more extreme and boasts 12 ‘play stations’ where men or women can be tied down, strung up, whipped and chained.
The source said of Dornan’s visit: ‘He looked, but didn’t touch.’