Jamie Dornan Lights up Social Media With 'Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar' Performance

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In an interview with the director, Josh Greenbaum for Slate, he reveals details of working with Dornan on the musical number and how much of it really required a double. "It's almost all him other than when we make it obvious that it's not," he said.

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Greenbaum continued: "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. 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.'"

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"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," Greenbaum said to Slate.

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The director continued of Dornan: "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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Greenbaum opens up about the moment when Dornan rips his shirt off, admitting the 38-year-old is "just that strong." In a real behind-the-scenes story, he further states to Slate "he did do a take or two where we didn't rip it because I was like, 'Look, it might be funny if you're struggling to rip it,' because I think we've all seen the tear-off."

However, in Barb and Star, since his character Edgar was already having such a hard time, maybe it made sense that his shirt wouldn't rip off right according to the director. "Nothing's going his way. So I think he actually did do a take or two where he just ripped it himself, and that is actually I believe what's in the movie."

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"But we did other takes where you pre-score [the shirt], and you just put a little rip at the bottom or the top, and it helps out a little bit. Look, he's a very strong man if you didn't know that and can't tell from his body. I have full faith that if he ever had to rip his shirt off without any help, he can do it," he told Slate, later adding how the actor is actually "very, very funny" and "gets" the kind of humor illustrated in the movie.

"When we were shooting the movie, I remember his wife came up to me and told me: 'This is really Jamie. This is really what he loves to do and what he, early on in his acting career, wanted to do.' And then of course he was cast in one of his earliest roles [in The Fall] as a serial killer, and then it goes from there. But he did such an incredible job."

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