For all the ladies have been waiting for in the film version of "50 Shades of Grey," actor Jamie Dornan just said the one thing to wave those fantasies good-bye: you won't get to see what's down there.
In an interview with The Guardian, Dornan said, "There were contracts in place that said viewers wouldn't be seeing my, um.... Yeah, my todger."
Bummer.
He also went on to say, "You want to appeal to as wide an audience as possible without grossing them out. You don't want to make something gratuitous, and ugly, and graphic."
Dornan knows that despite the wide fan-base of the novels, there are people who are not happy about his involvement in the film, sharing, "I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already."
And there might be more now that it's apparent he's not going to be nude for the film.
Speaking about shooting with co-star, Dakota Johnson, Dornan said that there wasn't anything about their kinky scenes that turned him on. He explained, "Anyone who thinks actors get turned on doing sex scenes in films is mistaken. There are dozens of hairy men standing around, moving cables and lighting equipment. That's not sexy unless you're into being watched, which I'm not."
They may be shooting a lot of sex scenes, but according to sources for Us Weekly, despite the very sexual project that they have to work in, action is missing from the film. It also means that it's not as steamy as fans may want it to be.
Dornan also defended the contents of the book, saying about its reputation as an erotic story, "Sam is a very bright woman, so there might be some suggestive elements to it, but I haven't seen it at this stage, so it is hard for me to say I'm aware of what we shot, and it wasn't as if we shot a film without any action."
An insider told the website, "Dakota isn't coming off sexy enough. [Anastasia Steele] needs to be naive, not a dishrag."
For the people who said that the film may glorify violence against women, the self-proclaimed feminist argued, "I think it's very hard to argue that when it is all consensual. Half the book is about making contracts. Permission and agreement that this be done. There's no rape, no forced sexual situations."
How the film will end up remains to be seen. "50 Shades of Grey" will premiere in theaters on February 13, 2015.
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