Jamie Dornan 'followed a woman off a train’ to prepare for stalker role

The Fifty Shades of Grey star played murderer and stalker Paul Spector in the crime drama, which Gillian Anderson, Bronagh Waugh and Aisling Franciosi also starred in.

Speaking to the LA Times, Jamie revealed that he got into the mindset of the twisted killer by following a woman "around a couple of street corners" in London.

“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 41-year-old confessed.

“I really kept my distance… she got off a few stops earlier than I was planning so I said, ‘Right, I have to commit to this’. I followed her around a couple of street corners and then was like, 'What are you doing?',”

The former model said the assignment was “kind of exciting” but in a “really sort of dirty way.”

“I’m sort of not proud of myself. But I do honestly think I learned something from it, because I’ve obviously never done any of that. It was intriguing and interesting to enter that process of ‘What are you following her for?’ and ‘What are you trying to find out?’”

Jamie has also opened up about being a stalking victim after an obsessed fan turned up at his family home, where he lives with his wife Amelia Warner and their three young children.

“I tried to put walls up around [the fans], to really try and not let that in,” he told the Independent.

“I’m pretty good at just blocking any of the noise associated with whatever fandom is – not letting it affect me, or more importantly my family.

“I’ve been involved in situations where it’s impacted my family. I had a situation... a stalker-type situation before Covid. That was f***ing scary.

“Someone turned up at my house when my kids were there. It was not something... The more I can block that out, the better it is for me and the family.”

When asked if such incidents would impact the roles he takes in the future, he said: “I don’t know, because obviously that was a whole fallout from Fifty Shades and the hysteria around that franchise.

“There’s never going to be anything like Fifty Shades again. It felt very much like its own thing, particularly because it focused in and around sex.

“But there are obviously other jobs that bring insane scrutiny, like superhero stuff, or f***ing James Bond – any of that stuff. I’ve done pretty well to avoid that sort of s*** so far.”