Jamie Dornan, Warren Beatty, Eddie Redmayne. Getty Pictures (3)
Celebrities are similar to Us — even they will fall sufferer to e mail scammers.
Whereas showing on the Thursday, February 29, episode of the “Pleased Unhappy Confused” podcast, Jamie Dornan recalled how Warren Beatty practically fell sufferer to a scammer pretending to be Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne. “Eddie acquired scammed on his e mail and all of us acquired emails saying, like, ‘Guys, I’m up towards it right here. I would like some money,’” Dornan, 41, defined to host Josh Horowitz.
Dornan went on to notice that the one individual out of all of Redmayne’s e mail contacts to reply to the message was Beatty, 86. “I believe I’m OK to inform this,” he joked earlier than including, “All of us simply acquired particular person emails saying, ‘Guys, I would like you to wire me some money,’ and honest credit score, Warren Beatty was like, ‘No matter you want.’”
Whereas Dornan didn’t specify when the e-mail rip-off occurred, he did observe it passed off “simply earlier than [Warren] learn out the unsuitable title on the Academy Awards.” Beatty and his Bonnie and Clyde costar Faye Dunaway incorrectly named La La Land because the Finest Image winner on the 2017 Oscars earlier than a crew member introduced that Moonlight was the right winner.
Dornan and Redmayne’s friendship dates method again earlier than the e-mail rip-off incident as they had been roommates in Los Angeles throughout the early days of their careers. The duo shaped a buddy group with different younger British up-and-coming actors Andrew Garfield, Robert Pattinson and Charlie Cox earlier than making it huge.
“Solely Eddie and I lived collectively, however Garfield and Robert had been all the time round, [and] Charlie Cox,” Dornan advised SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Present in January 2022, teasing that they had been “fairly messy” on the time.
“We had been by no means aggressive with one another. You already know, we had been up for a similar stuff a whole lot of the time, however we had been cool with that and all of it kind of labored out in their very own, form of, particular person method ultimately,” he added. “They’re all actually nice guys and actually good actors, and it’s cool that it form of all occurred for us, in a method.”

Pattinson, 37, advised Leisure Tonight in March 2022 that he generally felt just like the “final one invited” to the group’s hangouts, stating, “I used to be invited as an afterthought. There’d be like one slice of pizza left and I’d be like, ‘Is there any for me?’”
Dornan, nevertheless, clarified to ET later that month that he and the opposite guys frolicked extra actually because Pattinson “had success earlier” than the remainder of them. “We weren’t working and he’s working on a regular basis,” the Vacationer star defined. “He did Twilight and was all of a sudden in a unique stratosphere than us and we’ve kind of, not caught up, however all of us began working extra persistently, however yeah, Jesus, we’ve recognized one another a very long time.”
Later that 12 months, Redmayne revealed throughout an look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon that he as soon as didn’t acknowledge Pattinson whereas figuring out on the identical fitness center. On the time, Redmayne and Pattinson had been filming Implausible Beasts and The Batman, respectively, on the identical studio.
“I stroll in and there’s this man and this man goes ‘Hello’ and I’m going ‘Hello’ after which I simply kind of sit there watching him do these unbelievable issues whereas I kind of weakly do a sit-up within the nook,” he shared. “As I’m going, this man goes, ‘Bye, Eddie!’ And I look again and it was Rob. And he was so bodily modified and he had a person bun and what I’d seen him do was so dumbfounding. He fully reworked himself.”