15. Director Exits
Taylor-Johnson did not return to the franchise, not less than partly as a result of her issues working with James—who exercised as a lot inventive management as she might, even bringing in her husband, Niall Leonard, to write down the script for the sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.
“We might have correct on-set barneys,” Taylor-Johnson recalled to Porter journal in 2015. “I am not confrontational, but it surely was about discovering a approach between the 2 of us, satisfying her imaginative and prescient of what she’d written in addition to my want to visualise this individual on display screen.”
She additionally informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2015 that James “can be the primary to say as nicely that it was not straightforward. It was not straightforward. However we obtained there. I feel each of us felt it was an extremely painful course of.” James mentioned in an look on MSNBC that “persons are going to butt heads, and that’s precisely what occurred.”
Opening as much as the Sunday Occasions journal in 2017, Taylor-Johnson mentioned she did not remorse doing the movie, per se, “as a result of that may simply end me off. With the good thing about hindsight would I’m going by it once more? In fact I would not. I might be mad.”
She continued, “I like everybody, and I get actually confused after they do not like me. I used to be so confused by EL James. I do not perceive once I cannot navigate an individual, when there is no synergy.”
