Sam Taylor-Johnson has revealed that directing Fifty Shades of Grey has stunted her film making career.
The 51-year-old creative, who is married to Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 28, believed she would be a hot commodity after taking on the cinematic adaption of the raunchy book by E.L. James, but rather the opposite happened.
The first instalment of the Fifty Shades trilogy proved to be a box office smash, which starred Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, and raked in over £437 million worldwide in 2015.
‘I literally was scrambling still, in exactly the same position I was prior to that. I’d say to my agent, “I love this book. I really love it. What’s the deal with it?” “They’re going to Steven, Steven, David, David, and John.” But I know I’m fully capable.’
Sam is at the helm of another film adaption of a book, James Frey’s controversial A Million Little Pieces, which she is currently showing at TIFF and explained that she had to fight to direct it.
She said: ‘It drives me crazy, not just for myself, because I have all that experience and I’m pretty ballsy, I can punch through doors when they’ve slammed in my face. But I still want to weep at the sense of inequality…’.
The screen star first met wife Sam in 2009 as she was the director of the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, in which he starred.
He, at the time, was 19, and she over twice his age at 42, but they proved love knows no age restriction as they got engaged that year and married in 2012 at Babington House in Somerset.
The lovebirds raise their two young children, seven-year-old Wylda Rae and five-year-old Romy, together at their glamorous home.
Sam is also mother to 20-year-old Angelica and 12-year-old Jessie from her first marriage to Jay Jopling.
