Jamie Dornan in ELLE UK magazine
Jamie Dornan worries his daughter "won't recognise" him when he has to spend time away from home for his career.
The 32-year-old actor sometimes has to go a couple of weeks without seeing his 13-month-old girl - his child with wife Amelia Warner - when he is shooting a movie and he sometimes feels as though he has to earn her trust again when he is reunited with the tot.
Speaking in the February issue of ELLE UK magazine, he said: "I've had to be away the last couple of weekends, and I come back and I barely recognise her, and it's awful; she changes so much. And then I have this huge fear that she won't recognise me. The beard helps, but I had to shave it off a couple of times, so she's been shocked for the first few hours. She looks at me like, 'Do I love you? I think I love you.' I have to win back her trust."
Being separated from his family isn't the only drawback of being an actor.
Dornan doesn't enjoy the attention he receives for being famous, but he insists he is preparing himself for the increase in paparazzi following him after erotic thriller 'Fifty Shades of Grey' - in which he plays Christian Grey - is released in February.
He said: "You don't do it (become an actor) to have some guy sitting in a f***ing bush outside your house with a camera. That's not why you do it. I just couldn't do an office job; I don't have that temperament. But yeah, I don't know how you can prepare for it. You can't get in sandbags. Buy loads of hoodies and caps? I'll deal with it when it comes. I feel pretty secure about who I am. It's not my first time at the rodeo."
See Dornan's full photo shoot and interview in the February issue of ELLE UK, on sale 2 January 2015 in print and digital format via Apple Newsstand.
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