Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey are definitely back. The lead stars of “Fifty Shades Darker” Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson were spotted filming in Vancouver, Canada on March 2.
Principal photography for the highly-anticipated sequel commenced earlier last month but images on the set just surfaced over the past week.
Johnson wore Ana’s signature brunette locks while Dornan wore Grey’s dashing debonaire signature suit as the two were filming a very romantic scene.
Entertainment Tonight reports that the lead stars were filming a kissing scene while their characters were both soaked in the rain.
This leads to speculations that the two were filming the scene where Christian consoles Ana after her boss, Jack Hyde, attempted to molest her.
Other speculations say they were filming the scene where Steele and Grey get together again after the billionaire realizes that he can’t continue living without the vulnerable Ms. Steele in his life.
The lead stars were spotted on the set just after the first film “Fifty Shades of Grey” picked up five Razzies at the annual awards given out to Hollywood’s worst films over the weekend.
The “How to be Single” actress picked up a Razzie for Worst Actress while the 33-year-old actor was named Worst Actor.
They also won Worst Chemistry and the film also bagged the Razzie for Worst Adapted Screenplay tying for Worst Movie with 2015’s reboot of “Fantastic Four.”
Regardless of the Razzie honors, the film based on E.L. James’ erotic novel trilogy grossed more than $571 million worldwide.
The cast of the sequel also keeps getting bigger. Canadian actor Eric Johnson was recently added to the cast to portray Jack Hyde, a Commissioning Editor at Seattle Independent Publishing.
In the novel, Jack starts off as a nice guy, but quickly reveals his true intentions to Ana. He then pursues Ana who didn’t reciprocate his feelings which lead to Ana almost being raped.
The 36-year-old actor was spotted for the first time on set this week filming with Dakota. A very mischievous Jack Hyde was spotted being very touchy with Ana.
In the novel, Grey and Hyde’s history go way back during their foster child days.
Those who have read the novel will know that they have lived in the same foster home but Hyde harbored jealousy as Christian was adopted into the Grey family instead of him.
Photos of Dakota and Jamie filming a scene where Christian consoles an upset Ana surfaced early on March 3.
Just Jared notes that the scene culminates with a furious Christian telling Ana to get in his car so that he can beat the hell out of Jack. But for those who have read the novel, Ana asks Christian to stay by her side leaving Jack safe from Grey’s punches.
Also spotted on set was Bella Heathcote. E! News notes that the 28-year-old actress was unrecognizable in her character.
The Australian beauty will be playing Leila Williams, Christian’s jilted ex-lover who will be a huge threat to Christian’s and Ana’s lives.
One certain image shows Heathcote, Dakota, and Eric in one frame. This could be the scene where Ana bumps into Leila after her meeting with Jack.
Ana didn’t know who she was that time, but according to the novel, Leila was already stalking Ms. Steele that time.
Another actor added to the cast is “Teen Wolf” alum Tyler Heochlin. The 28-year-old actor will be portraying Boyce Fox, a character that was only mentioned in the novel but doesn’t actually appear.
However, the film version will see Heochlin’s author character who Ana works with as a book editor.
“Fifty Shades Darker” is set to hit theaters on February 10, 2017 and will be filmed back-to-back with the last installment of the trilogy “Fifty Shades Freed,” which is slated for a February 9, 2018 release.