Jamie Dornan Says Kristen Wiig Apologized for Making Him Do That ‘Imagine’ Video

It feels like almost yesterday that Gal Gadot, Kristen Wiig, Jamie Dornan, and a slew of other celebrities were roasted on Twitter for filming a head-scratching (but well-intentioned) rendition of "Imagine" by John Lennon.

Now the Fifty Shades actor is one of the first to speak out about the infamous video, which he says he was "dragged" into.

"Kristen and I did a movie together last summer that's meant to be coming out on the 31st of July, but who knows what will happen," he said on Shane Todd's Tea With Me podcast around the 22-minute mark. "We got on brilliantly. I would do anything for her—I was the biggest fan of her before, anyway. She's a genius."

All it took was a text. "Kristen texted two days before that came out, 'My friend Gal and I are trying to organize this thing to try and lift people's spirits,'" Dornan explained, laughing in retrospect. "So I was like, 'Of course I'll do it, it sounds like a lovely thing to do.'" He added that Gadot was "trying to do the right thing, I just got dragged along with it."

Apparently, once the backlash hit, Dornan says he was made aware by some of his friends, including Wiig. "Not being on social media, I wasn't aware of the reaction," he said. "Then [Kristen] texted days later, going, 'Sorry,' and I was like, 'What do you mean?'"

If Dornan had to point out why the video frustrated fans, he'd say it was all the "beautiful swinging trees by an ocean."

"I'll tell you what the problem was, I literally did mine in the toilet of my house," he said. "Quite clearly, people had escaped to their second home. There's too much acreage in the background, too much beautiful swinging trees by an ocean...I was like, Make it normal."

You can watch Dornan's entire interview above, where he also suggests he'd be down to play one of Joe Exotic's husbands in a future movie/series based on Tiger King. Um, yes, please.

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