Fifty Shades sex secrets – CGI pubes, secondhand penis pouches and ‘painful’ wax

Playing Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in the hit Fifty Shades of Grey franchise, not much can surprise Dakota Johnson or Jamie Dornan anymore.

The actors teamed up for the trilogy of movies, which featured a plethora of saucy S&M scenes – with Christian often whisking Ana off to his Red Room for their raunchy lovemaking sessions.

And with that came plenty of behind-the-scenes action to protect the actors throughout the filming process.

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From computer generated pubic hair to “painful” waxing, Daily Star takes a look at how those scenes were really shot.

‘Painful’ waxing

Though you might expect there to be some painful moments with Christian spanking his bride-to-be on the reg, keeping smooth for the cameras was one of the most gruelling for Dakota.

She confessed: “I was going to be naked, so I wanted to look good. I did a lot of working out and had more waxing than any woman should have.”

Another part of the process that made Dakota say “ouch” was rehearsing an explicit scene with Jamie that gave her “whiplash”.

She splurged: “There were painful moments. I got whiplash once, from Jamie throwing me on the bed.

“But that was only because we did it over and over again.”

CGI pubes

Despite her religious wax regime, it turns out some of Dakota’s pubic hair had to be added in post-production, using CGI graphics.

Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey confessed: “Dakota had kind of a patch that went over her pubic area, and right round her whole body.

“We were in the curious situation, in post-production, of adding [pubic hair]. I wouldn’t say it was one of the highlights of my career, but it certainly was one of the most surreal scenarios.”

Secondhand penis pouches

Jamie Dornan was forced to cover his real penis with a pouch during filming – and it turns out he had a lot of grinning and bearing to do, because the pouch had already been used by another actor.

Ew.

He explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live: “I wear, like, a wee bag. That’s an expression I say from where I’m from, a ‘wee bag,’ but it doesn’t mean it’s actually ‘wee’ inside.

“I wear, like, quite a big bag. I sort of picked one that I liked the look of and the shape of, and I picked it up and then in the seam, it said ‘Inmate #3’. It was like sewn in.

“I was like, sh**! This has been used before. I just sort of, like, mind over matter, just closed my eyes.”

The star also confirmed his contract forbade full-frontal nudity, explaining: “There were contracts in place stating that viewers wouldn’t see my, um, my todger.”

Bum doubles

It turns out the bare bottom you see in the spanking scenes didn’t belong to Dakota at all – as she had a bum double on standby to take the hits for her.

She explained: “There was a close up of a bum getting hit with a belt. That was not my bum, because I didn’t want to get hit with a belt.”

Another problem was the tattoo Dakota has on her rear, after going through a “phase where [she] loved tattoos, and loved the feeling of getting tattooed”.

McGarvey explained: “We did have a butt double for Dakota. I had the pleasure of casting a non-tattooed bottom — Surreal Scenario No. 2.”

Plenty of showers

After visiting a sex dungeon in preparation for his role as Christian, Jamie felt like he needed to shower for days.

The actor told British ELLE: “I went there, [the owner] offered me a beer, and they did… whatever they were into. I saw a dominant with two submissives, and he became our kink advisor on the film.

“I was sort of taking notes. I don’t know if it’s because they were uncomfortable having me in the room, but there were a lot of breaks while they had giggle fits.”

The actor added: “It was an interesting evening. Then going back to my wife and newborn baby afterwards…I had a long shower before touching either of them.”

Jamie ‘gets’ S&M

Despite his reservations in the dungeon, BDSM isn’t the worst thing Jamie can think of.

Instead, that honour goes to… plane spotting.

He told GQ Magazine: “There’s weirder sh** than that. I think plane spotting is far weirder than S&M.

“I can understand why people are into S&M, but standing outside Heathrow Terminal 5 waiting for Ryanair to come in?”

Adding: “By the way, if people make such a hoo-hah about the violence against women aspect of it, it’s far more common for men to be the submissive.

“And it’s consensual!”

Psychological prep

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Despite Jamie’s comments, Dakota still needed to be seriously prepared before acting as the submissive in certain scenes.

Being handcuffed and blindfolded was one of the most harrowing parts of her experience as an actress.

She explained to Entertainment Tonight: “I mean, there is a lot more of my body that’s shown than Jamie [Dornan’s] actually.

I really had to get ready for it each time and know exactly what we were going to do and how we were going to accomplish shooting the scenes, the more intimate ones.

“Over the course of the three films, it never got easier. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, this old thing’, you know?”

And she added to Marie Clair: “The most difficult [scene] by far […] was a sex scene in the third film where I was handcuffed with my arms and legs to the gate. It’s like a fence thing that comes down. And I was blindfolded.

“I didn’t realise 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.”

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