Hey, girl - did you want to see Ryan Gosling as Christian Grey in the steamy adaptation? Too bad. We were both very wasted.Į! Online adds that producers eliminated Pattinson early on in the casting process because they 'didn't want to pay his high salary.'

James asked me who I thought should be Christian I said 'James Deen, of course' and then she shoved me. But there are more than a few famous faces who at one point or another were seriously considered to star as the leads in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie: It's been a long and complicated casting process, and many of the actors who publicly distanced themselves from the production - including Michael Fassbender, Armie Hammer, Mila Kunis, and Emma Watson - were never in formal contention for the starring roles anyway. Though the news has been met with predictable bouts of fan outrage - a quixotic petition to replace Hunnam and Johnson with Matt Bomer and Alexis Bledel has already earned more than 20,000 signatures - the outpouring of reactions does speak to the difficulty of casting the two major roles.įifty Shades of Grey is an enormously successful property, but it also carries enormous risks: Any faithful adaptation of the mommy-porn hit is destined for an NC-17 rating, requiring actors who not only fit the roles described in James' novel, but are willing to bare all on the big screen. The gorgeous and talented Charlie Hunnam will be Christian Grey in the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.

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