Happy birthday Dakota Johnson!
Focus Features recently released a new still of the actress in character as Anastasia Steele in the upcoming erotic film "Fifty Shades of Grey." On the film's official Twitter account, a tweet showed Anastasia putting a black pencil labeled "Grey" tenderly on her bottom lip, TIME observed.
The image was more decent considering the very hot and heavy trailer the studio released earlier, where it featured sexier scenes of Anastasia and Christian, Daily Mail said.
Not everyone is happy with the attention the movie is getting. Watchdog groups did not approve of the airing of the trailer in the morning show, "Today," the Hollywood Reporter recalled.
The Parents Television Council slammed the NBC for its decision to "excessively" promote the clip, with director of grassroots education and advocacy, Melissa Henson, saying, "We're talking about basically the equivalent of a dime-store trashy romance novel. Essentially, what Today's doing is they're promoting what people refer to as 'mommy porn.' That's what it boils down to. Today is helping to promote mommy porn. That's a pretty poor judgment on their part in terms of their attitude toward their audience."
Meanwhile, Charlie Hunnam, best known for his role as Jax Teller in FX's "Sons of Anarchy," recently opened up about him backing out from the film to play Christian Grey.
He told Moviefone, "I was going to finish Sons [of Anarchy] at like 11 p.m. Friday night, get on a plane Saturday morning to Vancouver for Fifty, missing the whole first week of rehearsal and start shooting Monday morning. And I was going to shoot that film, wrap that on the Wednesday and the following Monday I was going to start shooting Crimson Peak in Toronto. I just had like, frankly, something of a nervous breakdown. I just said, 'I can't...I can't. To fail on such a grand scale-because Fifty's going to be massive, it's going to be huge. I really didn't want to fail on such a grand scale and I just couldn't transition from Jax to Christian Grey in 48 hours."
Hunnam may have backed out, but Jamie Dornan proved he's the best choice for the role.
According to E! News, during "An Evening in the Writer's Room" series in Hollywoord, hosted by Reza Aslan, screenwriter Kelly Marcel revealed Dornan's excellence as an actor, performing the very tricky role as a dashing billionaire-slash-freaky bedroom lover.
Referring to a steamy line describing Christian as a "popsicle," she said in jest, "She says that, 'You are my popsicle.' That line went in, it's genius. They apparently did that scene great. Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!"
"Fifty Shades of Grey" will premiere on February 13 next year.
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