While you’re busy enjoying all the sex scenes in Fifty Shades Freed, spare a thought for Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, who had a decidedly un sexy time while filming them. In an interview this week with Marie Claire, Johnson gave a behind-the-scenes look at all the truly awful things she’s had to go through while bringing the book club favourite to life.
To start with what might be the worst possible bit of movie magic you’ll read about all week, Johnson shared that she had to have her modesty thongs literally glued to her body during sex scenes. “I had these sort of strapless thongs that had glue on them. It’s not glue, but it’s sticky. They’re, like, basically if it were a nipple pastie, but underwear. But it’s only sticky at the top, it’s not sticky the whole way. It would also come off because the adhesive would wear out, so then they would superglue it to my body so that it wouldn’t fall off,” she said. “I would wear two of them. It’s not painful, I mean, it’s barely anything. But I guess you have some sense of being covered. It’s f*cking bizarre.” For his part, Dornan had to cover his junk with a “little pouch.” “It’s super not glamorous—it’s really unsexy,” she said.
And while Mr. Grey has an uncanny ability to turn on an entire movie theatre’s worth of people at once, Johnson said her experiences with Dornan IRL were much less fun. “[The sex scenes] are never easy. It’s not casual and it’s not fun. It never got easy,” she confessed. One scene, in particular, was especially tough to film. “The most difficult one by far—I think in all three movies—was a sex scene in the third film where I was handcuffed with my arms and legs to the gate. It’s like a fence thing that comes down. And I was blindfolded,” she said. “It was kind of shocking because I didn’t realize that no matter how prepared or rehearsed I was, when your senses are taken away like that, you can’t control the way your nervous system will react. So it was really tricky to navigate that scene. It was kind of difficult.”
Johnson revealed that one (very understandable) way she and Dornan made it through those awkward scenes was by tossing back a shot or two beforehand. “Most of [our preparation] is just really figuring out exactly how were are going to accomplish the scene beforehand—so that there’s not a lot of waiting around while we’re both vulnerable. But, if something is very, very difficult, it’s sometimes necessary to have a shot of something strong beforehand,” she said. It also helped to work with “advisors” who walked them through the BDSM practices in each scene. “We just had people who specialized in knowing how things work, like how to use certain tools and toys. There’s a certain method. It’s very intricate and the details are really important. The rules are also really important,” the 28-year-old said. “We didn’t want to go make a movie about something we didn’t research to the bone. So to really honour the BDSM community, we did it the right way.”
Taken from GLAMOUR US. Click here to read the original.
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