It has been commented on numerous occasions that the filming of Fifty Shades of Gray was not a tasteful dish for its protagonist, Dakota Johnson. In addition to the physical injuries she suffered, there were psychological and personal discomforts for her. It is said that she did not get along with her male partner, Jamie Dornan, and that she had to put up with fights between the director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and the author of the novels, E. L. James.
Despite her bad moments, the actress wanted to take a souvenir from the shoot, as she confessed in a round of questions from the followers through Glamor's Twitter. Some of the fans wanted to know if she had taken any items from the set, a common practice when production ends and stars leave the sets.
"Indeed, I have a whip in my house (it's in the garage collecting dust)" answered the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. But this instrument of s-xual torture was not the only souvenir that Dakota took: "I stole a lot of underwear ... it was very comfortable," she added.
After the overwhelming success of the film, which has grossed 265 million dollars worldwide in its opening days alone, it is assumed that Universal Pictures will want to produce a sequel, adapting the next book by James. On this second part, Johnson also pointed out some data.
“Of course,” Dakota replied when asked if she wanted to do Fifty Shades Darker. To this she added that there were things that she would like to add to the personality of Christian Grey, things like a sense of humor.
It has been rumored that Sam Taylor-Johnson – née Taylor-Wood – might not direct the sequels to 50 Shades of Gray due to the friction he experienced with the author of the successful trilogy.
According to a source close to the production, the two women blame each other for the film's problems. “The biggest discussions were about the s-x scenes in the film,” the source adds to The Sun: “Erica wanted the film to be true to the book and much more explicit. But Sam backed out because he wanted it to be more than just a collection of sadomasochistic sequences."
James signed a contract of almost four million euros in exchange for allowing her three books to be adapted, but in the agreement she was allowed a great capacity for intervention in the creative decisions of the films. "This made life completely impossible for Sam on set," added the source.
Universal cannot change this clause of the contract with the writer in order to keep the director on board. But I probably would if I had the chance, since the decisions of Taylor-Johnson are what have allowed the film to be raising millions of dollars, by accessing a larger audience thanks to softening most of the erotic scenes.
