Eddie Redmayne: I Could Have Played Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey

Eddie Redmayne doesn't understand why E.J. James was so against him possibly playing Christian Grey in the movie adaptation of her mommy porn bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey.
During a press junket for Les Miserables, a journalist asked Redmayne if he'd ever audition to play the sex-obsessed mogul. After he said yes, James shot the idea down in a very public way.
"She took to her Twitter feed to go, 'Under no circumstances!'" Redmayne remembers in the new issue of Variety. "It was like, all right, all right! Am I that bad? I can put a whip in my hand. I can get all kinky, can't I? Apparently not."

Funny enough, Redmayne's pal Jamie Dornan landed the role. The two were in their early 20s when they first came to Hollywood and hung out with other unknowns like Andrew Garfield and Tom Sturridge. "We used to go to the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, and split a sandwich between us because that meant we could get cheaper parking," Redmayne remembered. "We'd swim and play table tennis for hours."
Fast forward to today—Redmayne is getting lots of Oscar buzz for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
"The blogosphere is salivating over the prospect of him competing with another classical trainer British actor, Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays World War II code breaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game," Variety writer Ramin Setoodeh notes in his Redmayne cover story.

Fifty Shades of Grey : Behind-the-Scenes Pics

Here is everything we know about the Fifty Shades of Grey movie so far. First of all, the movie is actually happening.

Fifty shades of grey behind the scenes.

The Actors

We know Dakota Johnson (of Ben & Kate and that one scene in The Social Network) will play Anastasia Steele and Jamie Dornan—and not Charlie Hunnam—will play Christian Grey. Upgrade!

We know that Jamie Dornan is very attractive. Is he as attractive as Christian Grey, an imaginary character? Who's to say. But he is attractive. We know that because we've seen his face (below)

Full Fronta

If Jamie Dornan goes full frontal for the NC-17 version of Fifty Shades, he will likely not disappoint. Look how big of a microphone they needed to hide his penis here.

Dakota Johnson

We know that Anastasia Steele will look like this on the big screen (possibly without the Uggs, but hey, she's a college student). It is still TBD how her inner goddess will look in the movie.

Work It Out

Dakota was seen on set sporting her workout gear for one of the film's running scenes.

 Dakota and Jamie got face to face during one particularly heated scene.