Jamie, who has since starred in countless other movies after the franchise's debut, including Anthropoid and Belfast, is well-aware of the footnote his appearance in Fifty Shades of Grey made—but noted that it's lit an entirely new spark fire for him moving forward.
 
"Whether A Private War, Anthropoid or Belfast, or whatever comes next, the line in the press is always, ‘It's the best thing he's done since Fifty Shades,'" he explained. "As if I am still needing to prove myself; I am still paying penance for that choice to get me back to where I was beforehand. Look, I get it, and to be honest with you, it spurs me on. It lights a fire in me. If that means people saying, ‘Oh, actually he's not that bad,' well, so be it."