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It’s the best-selling book of all time in the UK, fuelling over 5 million female fantasies and given rise to a whole new genre of ‘mummy porn’, so the film version of 50 Shades of Grey has a lot to live up to. When Showfilmfirst asked it’s audience what they thought of the first trailer for the film, one thing stood out above everything else: Could male lead Jamie Dornan cut it as Christian Grey?
If cinema history has taught us anything it’s to take leftfield casting with a pinch of salt; despite initial outcries can you now imagine anyone other than Rene Zellweger as Bridget Jones? Daniel Craig has more than stepped up to mark as the first blonde James Bond. And then there’s Christian Bale who silenced all the critics with his role as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. Interestingly, this character’s name crept up a few times in your responses and we can see where you’re coming from: a smooth-talking, sartorially-elegant homicidal maniac with a penchant for cruelty, torture and soft rock – what’s not to like??
Is this who we’ve imagined Christian Grey to be? We shall have to wait until Valentine’s Day 2014 to see if Mr Dornan can surpass our expectations, but while the jury’s out we’re intrigued to know a bit more about your ideal of the fantasy man.
If cinema history has taught us anything it’s to take leftfield casting with a pinch of salt; despite initial outcries can you now imagine anyone other than Rene Zellweger as Bridget Jones? Daniel Craig has more than stepped up to mark as the first blonde James Bond. And then there’s Christian Bale who silenced all the critics with his role as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. Interestingly, this character’s name crept up a few times in your responses and we can see where you’re coming from: a smooth-talking, sartorially-elegant homicidal maniac with a penchant for cruelty, torture and soft rock – what’s not to like??
Is this who we’ve imagined Christian Grey to be? We shall have to wait until Valentine’s Day 2014 to see if Mr Dornan can surpass our expectations, but while the jury’s out we’re intrigued to know a bit more about your ideal of the fantasy man.