Dakota Johnson Recalled The Chaotic Experience Of Filming “Fifty Shades Of Grey” And Said She Initially “Signed Up To Do A Very Different Version” Of The Movie They Ended Up Making
Leyla Mohammed
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“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 ... but it was tricky.”
Dakota Johnson Recalled The Chaotic Experience Of Filming “Fifty Shades Of Grey” And Said She Initially “Signed Up To Do A Very Different Version” Of The Movie They Ended Up Making
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.
Karwai Tang / WireImageNow, 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.”
Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueSpeaking about how she’d envisioned filming would go, Dakota firstly pulged 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.”
Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images“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.”
Picture Alliance / picture alliance via Getty Images“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.
Rich Fury / Getty Images for LACMAGetting 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.
Ian Gavan / Getty Images“We’d do the takes of the movie that Erika wanted to make, and then we would do the takes of the movie that we wanted to make,” she revealed. “The night before, I would rewrite scenes with the old dialogue so I could add a line here and there. It was like mayhem all the time.”
Kevin Winter / Getty ImagesAnd Dakota went on to admit that if she’d known just how chaotic things would’ve been prior to shooting the Fifty Shades franchise, she doesn’t think anyone would’ve been on board.
Miikka Skaffari / Getty Images“If I had known at the time that’s what it was going to be like, I don’t think anyone would’ve done it. It would’ve been like, ‘Oh, this is psychotic,’” she said.
Robert Smith / Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesHowever, in spite of all the chaos, Dakota made it clear that she doesn’t regret taking on the infamous role. “I don’t think it’s a matter of regret… I don’t regret it,” she said.
youtube.comContinuing her walk down memory lane, Dakota went on to address the age-old rumors that she and Jamie virtually despised each other off camera — something that was heavily speculated over the years that Fifty Shades was in the spotlight.
Pascal Le Segretain / Getty ImagesIn fact, the duo found themselves faced with all sorts of rumors around their relationship at the time — from apparently hating each other and clashing on set to secretly having an affair — and their infamously awkward interviews only prompted further discussion around their seemingly odd dynamic.
Mike MarslandHowever, putting the gossip to bed, Dakota revealed that there was “never a time” that she and Jamie didn’t get along.
Jon Kopaloff / FilmMagic“I know it’s weird, but he’s like a brother to me,” she said of Jamie. “I love him so, so, so much. And we were really there for each other. We had to really trust each other and protect each other.”
Randy Holmes / ABC via Getty Images“We were doing the weirdest things for years, and we needed to be a team: ‘We’re not doing that,’ or ‘You can’t do that camera angle,’” Dakota said, before explaining that when the director of the first movie, Sam Taylor-Johnson, stepped down from leading the rest of the franchise, she and Jamie had all the more reason to fully support each other.
Dominique Charriau / WireImage“Sam didn’t come back to direct after the first movie, and, as a female, she had brought a softer perspective,” Dakota said. “James Foley came on to direct, and he’s an interesting man. It was different doing those bizarre things with a man behind the camera. Just a different energy.”
Isa Foltin / Getty Images“There are things that I still cannot say because I don’t want to hurt anyone’s career and I don’t want to damage anybody’s reputation, but both Jamie and I were treated really well,” she clarified. “Erika is a very nice woman, and she was always kind to me and I am grateful she wanted me to be in those movies.”
Carlos Alvarez / Getty ImagesRounding off, Dakota noted that despite the trilogy being “great” for her and Jamie’s careers, the entire process of shooting the films was pretty bizarre. “Look, it was great for our careers. So amazing. So lucky. But it was weird. So, so weird,” she said.
Vivien Killilea / Getty ImagesIn a similar vein, Jamie revealed last year that he also has no regrets over starring in the Fifty Shades franchise, despite having initially been “reluctant” to take on the role.
Mike Coppola / Getty Images“There’s nothing like Fifty Shades in terms of, it was based on books and we were staying very close to these books,” he told British GQ in November. “These books were loved by fandom. Really loved, obsessively loved and despised by every critic.”
Steve Granitz / FilmMagic,“You know that you’re going to have these movies that are for the fans, that the fans are going to love, that are gonna make a ton of money,” he went on. “But you know that the critics will be just, you know, licking their lips, and that’s exactly what happened. And we knew that was going to happen so you’re watching that play out, and at times that’s fucking difficult.”
youtube.comJamie added, “The thing is, every move I have made in my career, post those films, I have only been able to do because of those films. Because all of the stuff, like Belfast, Beyond Private, or any, like, well-received, more independent stuff I’ve done the last five or six years, they’re only budgeting, they’re only paying for those films to be made off my name because I’m in a franchise that made $1.4 billion. That’s how that works. It’s all part of it, it’s given me so much, so of course I don’t regret it.”
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Jamie Dornan Opened Up About Why He Doesn’t Regret Filming “Fifty Shades Of Grey” Despite Calling The Criticism “Difficult” To Deal WithBen Henry · Nov. 16, 2021- Dakota Johnson Addressed The Rumors That She Was In A Secret Feud With Jamie Dornan And, Honestly, I Love What She SaidAlex Gurley · June 28, 2022
- For The First Time, Dakota Johnson Is Revealing Why There Were “A Lot Of Disagreements” About The “Fifty Shades” MoviesMorgan Murrell · June 28, 2022
Jamie Dornan Opened Up About Why He Doesn’t Regret Filming “Fifty Shades Of Grey” Despite Calling The Criticism “Difficult” To Deal WithBen Henry · Nov. 16, 2021
Dakota Johnson Addressed The Rumors That She Was In A Secret Feud With Jamie Dornan And, Honestly, I Love What She SaidAlex Gurley · June 28, 2022
For The First Time, Dakota Johnson Is Revealing Why There Were “A Lot Of Disagreements” About The “Fifty Shades” MoviesMorgan Murrell · June 28, 2022Topics in this article
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