Dakota Johnson didn\u2019t let Charlie Hunnam off easy over turning down the role of Christian Grey in \u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d when the pair recently crossed paths. <\/p>\n
Hunnam said he had \u201cno regrets at all\u201d about dropping out of the 2015 erotic romantic drama based on\u00a0E. L. James\u2019 books of the same name.<\/p>\n
He also recalled how Johnson reacted when the almost on-screen love interests ran into each other a decade after the movie\u2019s release.<\/p>\n
Charlie Hunnam attends the Triple Frontier (Triple Frontera) premiere at Callao Cinema on March 06, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. WireImage<\/p>\n
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in the 2015 flick \u201cFifty Shades of Grey.\u201d \u00a9Focus Features\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
Charlie Hunnam attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating \u201cSleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion\u201d at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cShe gave me a bit of a hard time about it in a very fun way,\u201d Hunnam, 45, told Variety<\/a> about passing on starring as the film\u2019s leading man, which ultimately went to Jamie Dornan.<\/p>\n In the interview pegged to \u201cMonster: The Ed Gein Story\u201d<\/a> and published on Tuesday, the \u201cSons of Anarchy\u201d alum joked that he \u201cjust wasn\u2019t thinking clearly\u201d when it came to taking the job before abruptly backing out<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n Hunnam, meanwhile, laughed while saying he\u2019s \u201cnever looked back\u201d since turning down the blockbuster, which earned $85 million<\/a> during its opening weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dakota Johnson in \u201cFifty Shades of Grey.\u201d \u00a9Focus Features\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in \u201cFifty Shades of Grey.\u201d \u00a9Focus Features\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n Johnson, 35, and Dornan, 43, went on to make two additional flicks for the franchise: \u201cFifty Shades Darker\u201d\u00a0(2017) and\u00a0\u201cFifty Shades Freed\u201d\u00a0(2018).<\/p>\n Dornan spoke about the challenges of playing the high-profile role. <\/p>\n \u201cThese books were loved by fandom. Really loved, obsessively loved and despised by every critic. Real critics hated the books,\u201d he told British\u00a0GQ<\/a>\u00a0in 2021, noting he was \u201crelieved\u201d when the role initially went to Hunnam.<\/p>\n Charlie Hunnam attends the Netflix premiere of \u201cReal Moon \u2013 Part One: A Child of Fire\u201d at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 13, 2023 in Hollywood, California. Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n Charlie Hunnam attends the Netflix Premiere of Zack Snyder\u2019s REBEL MOON \u2013 Part One: A Child of Fire at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 13, 2023 in Hollywood, California. FilmMagic<\/p>\n \u201c[I thought], \u2018F\u2014, that\u2019s great, what a nightmare for that guy. He\u2019s going to have all this scrutiny,’\u201d Dornan admitted.<\/p>\n While the actor confessed he \u201cfelt the wrath of hatred\u201d from playing Christian, an attractive, young businessman with a dominant sexual appetite, the opportunity opened doors for his career.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery move I have made in my career, post those films, I have only been able to do because of those films,\u201d he shared elsewhere in the interview. <\/p>\n Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in \u201cFifty Shades of Grey.\u201d \u00a9Focus Features\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in \u201cFifty Shades of Grey.\u201d \u00a9Focus Features\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n \u201cAll of the stuff, like\u00a0\u2018Belfast,\u2019 \u2018Beyond Private\u2019\u00a0or any well-received, more independent stuff I\u2019ve done the last five or six years \u2026 they\u2019re only paying for those films to be made off my name because I\u2019m in a franchise that made $1.4 billion. That\u2019s how that works. It\u2019s all part of it, it\u2019s given me so much, so of course, I don\u2019t regret it,\u201d Dornan explained.<\/p>\n Hunnam, meanwhile, revealed in 2023 that he had \u201ctaken a little hiatus\u201d<\/a> from acting, but he\u2019s back as the leading man once again in the third season of Ryan Murphy\u2019s\u00a0anthology series \u201cMonster.\u201d<\/p>\n With the hit previous seasons being about Jeffrey Dahmer\u00a0and\u00a0the Menendez brothers, this season\u2019s focus is on serial killer Ed Gein, played by Hunnam, who\u2019s notorious for skinning human corpses.<\/p>\n Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein in Season 3 of Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u201cMonster.\u201d \u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein and Suzanna Son as Adelina in Season 3 of Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u201cMonster.\u201d \u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n The Wisconsin native became known as The Butcher of Plainfield for the disturbing nature of his 1950s crimes.<\/p>\n True crime historian Harold Schechter,<\/a>\u00a0who wrote the book,\u00a0\u201cDeviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0previously explained to The Post that Gein\u2019s \u201cwhole thing was trying to reconstitute his mother by digging up the bodies of these middle aged women in the communities around him, bringing them back to his farmhouse, making various household objects out of their body parts, and a skin suit that he would wear and pretend he was his own mother.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite investigators discovering the remains of ten women<\/a> in Gein\u2019s home, he was only linked to two murders.<\/p>\n Charlie Hunnam attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix\u2019s \u201cRebel Moon \u2013 Part One: A Child of Fire\u201d at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 13, 2023 in Hollywood, California. FilmMagic<\/p>\n