Before we get to their coping mechanisms, Dakota Johnson also revealed that she and Jamie Dornan had to wear completely bizarre costume pieces for their sex scenes to cover themselves as much as possible. Aside from Dornan’s strategic covering, Johnson said that the underwear she wore — which only covered the smallest parts, in the end — was basically glued to her.
“Oh yeah, Jamie’s little pouch,” Johnson said regarding the “modesty wear” she and Dornan had to don during their sex scemes. “It’s super not glamorous—it’s really unsexy. He wore that, and I had these sort of strapless thongs that had glue on them. It’s not glue, but it’s sticky. They’re, like, basically if it were a nipple pastie, but underwear. But it’s only sticky at the top, it’s not sticky the whole way. It would also come off because the adhesive would wear out, so then they would superglue it to my body so that it wouldn’t fall off. And I would wear two of them. It’s not painful, I mean, it’s barely anything. But I guess you have some sense of being covered. It’s f***ing bizarre.”
Okay, so how did Dornan and Johnson “prepare” for their more risqué scenes in the “Fifty Shades” movies? Some of it was technical, including planning for scenes (like, one would imagine, the blindfold-handcuff scene that proved to be difficult). Sometimes, though, they needed liquid courage: “But, if something is very, very difficult, it’s sometimes necessary to have a shot of something strong beforehand.”
