Dakota Johnson Says E.L. James Was Too ‘Precious’ About the Fifty Shades of Grey Movies
did not enjoy working with author E.L. James on the In a new interview with , Johnson compared James's deep involvement with the Fifty Shades movies to the hands-off approach taken by other authors, and guess which one she prefers.“In The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal really absorbed that novel and then regurgitated her vision of it, and it was received so well by the author,” Johnson said. “Then with something like 50 Shades, the author was extremely precious about words, clothing, anything, everything.