“I signed up to do a very different version of the movie we ended up doing,” Johnson said. “[E.L. James] he had a lot of creative control, all day, every day, and he just wanted certain things to happen. There were parts of the books that just wouldn’t work in a movie, like the inside monologue, which were sometimes incredibly cheesy. It would not work to say loudly. It has always been a battle. Always. When I auditioned for that movie, I read a monologue from “Persona” and said, “Oh, this is going to be really special.” Johnson said the creation of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy “went crazy”, adding, “There were a lot of different disagreements. “I was never able to talk about it honestly, because you want to promote a film the right way, and I’m proud of what we did in the end and everything went well, but it was difficult.” “It simply came to our notice then [James] “He wanted to do it and then we would do the filming we wanted to do,” Johnson continued. “Last night, I would rewrite scenes with the old dialogue to add a line here and there. It was like chaos all the time. “ Even with the behind-the-scenes battles, Johnson has no regrets or bad moods about James or the franchise that made her famous. “If I had known at the time that it would be so, I do not think anyone would have done it,” Johnson said. It would be like, “Oh, this is psychotic.” But no, I do not regret it… There are things I still can not say because I do not want to hurt anyone’s career and I do not want to hurt anyone’s reputation, but both Jamie [Dornan] and they treated me very well. [James] “She is a very nice woman and she has always been kind to me and I am grateful she wanted me to be in these movies.” “Look, it was great for our career,” Johnson concluded. “So amazing. So lucky. But it was weird. So weird.” Visit the Vanity Fair website to read the full Johnson cover.
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