Seven years on from the release of the first Fifty Shades of Grey movie, lead actor Dakota Johnson is pulling back the curtain on what it was like filming the entire trilogy.Dakota famously portrayed Anastasia Steele in all three of the popular films, which are based on author E.L. (real name Erika) James’s huge-selling series of erotic novels.
Despite the trio of adapted films bringing in a combined total of over $1 billion at the box office, Fifty Shades of Grey and its two successors, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, were each met with scathing reviews from critics and memorably low scores on Rotten Tomatoes.Now, Dakota has candidly given a little more insight into what it was like filming the Fifty Shades films, admitting during an interview with Vanity Fair last week that she found the whole thing to be “psychotic.
Speaking about how she’d envisioned filming would go, Dakota firstly divulged that the cast wound up shooting something totally different from what she’d had in mind. “I signed up to do a very different version of the film we ended up making,” she said, before revealing that this was partly because of “the author of the books.She had a lot of creative control, all day, every day, and she just demanded that certain things happen,” Dakota said of Erika. “There were parts of the books that just wouldn’t work in a movie, like the inner monologue, which was at times incredibly cheesy. It wouldn’t work to say out loud. It was always a battle. Always.
“There were a lot of different disagreements. I haven’t been able to talk about this truthfully ever, because you want to promote a movie the right way, and I’m proud of what we made ultimately and everything turns out the way it’s supposed to, but it was tricky,” she admitted.Getting even more candid, Dakota shared that she’d go so far as to “rewrite scenes” the “night before” shooting, with the cast actually filming different versions of each scene in order to appease both themselves and Erika.
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