So “Not” Sexy According to Dakota Johnson

The sex scenes in 50 Shades Freed may sizzle, but shooting them was a chore, according to star Dakota Johnson. The 28-year-old spills that not only did she have to have her thongs literally hot-glued on, the actual sex scenes with co-star Jamie Dornan was anything but sexy.

“It’s never easy,” she tells Marie Claire. “It’s not casual and it’s not fun.”

• Dornan, 35, wasn’t having a better time of it. “It’s super not glamorous,” Johnson joked. “It’s really unsexy.”
• Johnson reveals that the toughest scenes in the 50 Shades trilogy were actually in the Freed film.
• “I was handcuffed with my arms and legs to the gate. It’s like a fence thing that comes down. And I was blindfolded,” she recalled. “And it was kind of shocking, because I didn’t realize that no matter how prepared or rehearsed I was, when your senses are taken away like that, you can’t control the way your nervous system will react. So, it was really tricky to navigate that scene. It was kind of difficult.”
• To keep things as real as possible, they worked with a sex advisor.
• “Jamie mostly had an advisor that was on set for the first film, not so much for the second. Then we just had people who specialized in knowing how things work, like how to use certain tools and toys,” she said.
• “There’s a certain method. It’s very intricate and the details are really important,” Johnson continued. “The rules are also really important. We didn’t want to go make a movie about something we didn’t research to the bone. So to really honor the BDSM community and we did it the right way.”