While out promoting her new romantic comedy How to be Single, Dakota Johnson appeared on Bravo’s Watch What Happens: Live with Andy Cohen and answered a viewer query about whether she thinks Jamie Dornan should show as much flesh in upcoming sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed as she did in Fifty Shades of Grey.
“That’s an interesting question, I’ll probably get in trouble for this answer… yeah,” said Johnson. “Yeah. I’m gonna make him get fully naked in the next one. Everybody wants to see the D, the Dornan D. We should start a movement, a campaign.”
An erotically charged romance, the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise has capitalized on it’s naughty-but-not-too-naughty aesthetic to the tune of more than $570 million worldwide. On-set conflict between author E L James and the first film’s director Sam Taylor-Johnson, however, led to Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel opting not return for the sequel. James Foley will instead direct Fifty Shades Darker, which will be penned by E L James’ husband, Niall Leonard.
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are set to return as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in both Fifty Shades Darker and the third film, Fifty Shades Freed. Kim Basinger will play Elena Lincoln, who introduced Grey to the world of BDSM. Meanwhile Arielle Kebbel has already been cast as provocative architect Gia Matteo in the third film, Fifty Shades Freed, which will shoot back-to-back with the second film. Expanding upon the events set in motion in Fifty Shades of Grey, the films will again aim to become the motion-picture events for Valentine’s Day 2017 and 2018. Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti, alongside E L James, the creator of the series, also return to produce.
