Fifty Shades of Grey: I couldn’t show Jamie Dornan full frontal so it was a bare rear
Fifty Shades Of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson has admitted there are a lot of shots of Jamie Dornan’s rear - because she wanted equal opportunity nudity on screen.
Speaking as the movie starring Dornan and Dakota Johnson premiered in London, she said there was traditionally more female flesh in films but she wanted to even up the experience.
“I was very much aware of balance in nudity. I wanted to be quite egalitarian,” she said. “But we couldn’t ever show Jamie full frontal so you’ve only got his bum left. Chest isn’t as much a statement as a naked woman’s chest so unfortunately for Jamie it was his butt that got the most exposure.”
A bashful Dornan, who has seen the film only once, admitted he had to look away when his bottom appeared - yet he thought it seemed to stay on screen forever. “I thought maybe I will send an email and I looked up and it was still my bum,” he said. “I find it difficult to watch myself in anything anyway.”
Fifty Shades of Grey UK premiere
His wife, Amelia Warner, has not yet seen the movie. “I’m very unlike Christian Grey in that I don’t force her to do anything.” Dornan said.
Taylor-Johnson said the world premiere in Berlin this week had been fun but returning home to London was “properly exciting” though daunting because “I’ve got a lot of cynical friends”.
She defended her leading man against claims he lacked the sizzle factor and said: “It’s a very difficult task to play somebody very closed down. Jamie plays him beautifully subtly.” The reaction from fans suggested they agreed, she said. “The moment he started to undo a button there were screams and whoops and slight Beatle-mania.”
Dornan said they would like to do writer EL James’s other two books — “I like the idea of honouring the trilogy.”
Fifty Shades of Grey is in cinemas from today.
