Jamie Dornan still talks to Fifty Shades of grey Co-star Dakota Johnson — and they’re even planning a reunion soon!
Speaking with Metro UK at the Into Film Awards on July 1, the 42-year-old actor shared that he and the Madame Web star, 34 – who played lovers turned husband and wife in the film series – are working to find themselves your fiance, Chris Martin.
“I was just texting with her a few days ago,” Dornan told the outlet. “I think she’s going to London for a little bit in the next few weeks, so I’m trying to see her and Chris for dinner.”
At the Fifty Tones of gray films — which were adapted from the popular book series by E. L. James — Dornan played the titular Christian Grey, while Johnson played Anastasia Steele. The first in the series hit theaters in 2015, with the final installment, Fifty Shades Freedpremiering in 2018.
In the nearly decade since Fifty Shades became a cultural phenomenon — and a lightning rod for discussions about the appropriateness of the material due to its sadomasochistic content — both Johnson and Dornan have spoken about the difficulties they faced during filming and how they tried to distance themselves from the films.
Johnson spoke openly about his problems in a 2022 interview with Vanity Fairsaying, “I signed up to do a very different version of the movie than we ended up making.” She claimed that the scripts and production were constantly undergoing changes, which led to a back-and-forth struggle that was “always a battle.”
“We would do the takes of the movie that Erika (EL James) wanted to do, and then we would do the takes of the movie that we wanted to do,” Johnson said. “The night before, I would rewrite the scenes with the old dialogue, so I could add a line here and there. It was just chaos all the time.”
One thing she did take issue with was the idea that she and Dornan didn’t get along during filming. Rumors swirled as the films premiered that the actor and actress weren’t all that close to each other, which Johnson was happy to shut down.
“There was never a time when we didn’t get along,” Johnson shared. “I know it’s weird, but he’s like a brother to me. I love him so, so, so much. And we were really there for each other. We had to really trust each other and protect each other.”
Their on-screen chemistry was also undeniable. Despite some critics who took issue with the adult content in the film franchise, all three films — Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker It is Fifty Shades Freed — raised over $1.32 billion in total worldwide box office.
In 2021, ET reached the actor while he was promoting his then new film, Belfastand joked that the film — which sprang from the mind of Kenneth Branagh and followed a working-class family facing political unrest in the Northern Irish capital in the 1960s — may have the potential to change the course of those who dismissed him as an actor.
“I think certain people have negative opinions about these films, but this might change people’s minds about it,” Dornan said of Belfastwhich received seven Oscar nominations and one win in the Best Original Screenplay category.
O Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar actor continued, “Will this help? Maybe, but maybe not. People are entitled to their opinion, and they are entitled to their opinion on these movies. But you just move forward and try to do the best you can.”
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