Dakota Johnson has opened up about her experience filming for “Fifty Shades of Grey”, calling it ‘mayhem’. In a new interview, the actress spoke about her experience of working on the film, which also cast Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey.
As she readies for the release of Jane Austen’s Persuasion on Netflix, the actress revealed that the filming was ‘psychotic’, adding that it was not how she had expected it to be. Dakota said that author of the books which served as an inspiration for the film, Erika Leonard, who uses the pen name EL James, exerted creative control over the production.
The star said that Leonard wanted things to be done in a certain way even when others protested and that it did not help the film’s cause.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, Dakota said making the Fifty Shades films ‘became something crazy’. “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 added.
“We’d do the takes of the movie that Erika (EL James) wanted to make, and then we would do the takes of the movie that we wanted to make. 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… 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.’ But no, I don’t regret it,” Dakota said.
