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Fans are definitely getting a closer look at Fifty Shades of Grey! While we still haven't seen the infamous Red Room of Pain, we are seeing more of Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson interacting with one another, and the initial awkwardness is everything we expected and more!
As readers know, Anastasia Steele (Johnson) is painfully awkward throughout the beginning stages of their relationship before letting loose, and the teaser trailer that aired during the Super Bowl gave audiences a taste of her goofiness. One scene included in the teaser showed Christian showing her his "play room" where she naively asks, "like where you keep your X-box and stuff?"
How innocent she starts out! The teaser showed them being awkwardly funny, but in the best kind of way. You'll definitely be cringing for her, but with all of the steamy scenes spliced in you won't be feeling bad for her for long! Fans got an even better treat when a full-length scene from the movie released Monday morning, showing moviegoers Christian's visit to the hardware store where Anastasia works.
The hunky mogul asks her to help him find cable ties, masking tape and rope, which leads her to believe he is redecorating. Little does she know (yet) that he is doing everything but that LOL!
"Rope, tape, cable ties...you're the complete serial killer," she jokes.
Fifty Shades of Grey will be releasing more exclusives on the Today show as the week goes on, in addition to the already released scene and even a never-before-seen photo. A blurred out picture was posted on the movie's Facebook page, but the Today show page revealed an unblurred version after it had received a certain amount of likes! The picture showed Anastasia and (shirtless) Christian sitting in bed with him stroking her face.
Although people would probably assume that the racy sex scenes would be the hardest to shoot, both stars reveal to Time that that wasn't necessarily the case. In fact, Dornan said the most difficult scene for him was the interview one when they first meet!
"It's the first time that we see Christian, and we see him in his highly impressive office, very much in charge and in a position of power," Dornan tells the magazine. "And all of that has to come across, but we also have to quickly feel the connection between the two right away."
The cast was given two days to film the momentous scene, which Dornan believes means, "I wasn't the only one thinking that we really needed to get it right."
While Johnson thought many of the sex scenes were uncomfortable to film, she revealed that Dornan using a "flogger" on her left her feeling particularly uneasy.
"Filming a sex scene is not a sensual or pleasurable environment," she dishes. "It's really hot — not in a steamy, sexual way. It's just sweaty and it's not very comfortable. And on top of that, my hands and legs were tied, and I was blindfolded, and I was being hit with this bizarre tool."
So how did she handle getting flogged? She just had to get used to it!
"It was emotionally taxing," she says. "At first I was like, 'Oh my God, this is the worst thing ever,' and then I was like, 'All right, let's get on with it.'"
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