Anastasia Steele actor describes constant disagreements on the set of the hit erotic thriller due to disagreements with Fifty Shades author EL James. Dakota Johnson has described the making of the hit erotic drama Fifty Shades of Grey as crazy and that she signed up to do a very different version of the film she ended up making.
Johnson, who is currently appearing in award-winning indie comedy Cha Cha Real Smooth and about to release an adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Persuasion, spoke to Vanity Fair about Fifty Shades of Grey in which she starred opposite Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey in a 2015 film version of EL James best selling novel directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.
Two further films Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed were released in 2017 and 2018 respectively with James Foley replacing Taylor-Johnson as director and over which James was given what has been described as unprecedented control. Johnson suggests the film makers battle over the script was the main source of problems. The credited writer is Kelly Marcel best known as the co writer of Saving Mr Banks and it was widely reported that Taylor Johnson hired Notes on a Scandals Patrick Marber to polish the script. According to Johnson after Charlie Hunnam, the actor originally cast as Grey dropped out James scrapped the script.
Johnson added James had a lot of creative control all day every day and she just demanded that certain things happen. There were parts of the books that just would not work in a movie like the inner monologue which was at times incredibly cheesy. It would not work to say out loud. It was always a battle. Always We would do the takes of the movie that James wanted to make and then we would do the takes of the movie that we wanted to make It was like mayhem all the time.
Johnson also said she derived a mistaken impression of the film after being asked to read a monologue from Ingmar Bergmans classic psychological study Persona as an audition piece. I was like Oh this is going to be really special.
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