Quote: "There's pubic hair! She actually has a bush, which is fantastic! It was a conscious choice. (Dakota Johnson) and I had a very funny discussion about the arc and journey of her pubic hair... that she should start one way, and she goes on this journey with it, and in line with how it's written in the book is the journey of that." Director Sam Taylor-Wood on the personal grooming style of her leading lady in Fifty Shades of Grey.
Quote: "Jamie had an on-set dominatrix to show him how it all worked, and I had a female dominatrix who helped me enhance my understanding." Director Sam Taylor-Johnson had sex professionals on hand to help her accurately shoot raunchy S&M scenes for the Fifty Shades Of Grey movie adaptation with leading man Jamie Dornan.
Fact: Director Sam Taylor-Wood and her husband Aaron Johnson have combined their surnames. The actor will be officially credited as Aaron Taylor-johnson for the first time in new movie Anna Karenina.
Fact: John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and moviemaker Sam Taylor-Wood have donated their personal artwork to an auction for a British cancer charity. The pieces will be sold off in London on Tuesday (18Jan11) to benefit Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres.
Fact: Aaron Johnson and Sam Taylor-Wood stripped off in a joint naked photoshoot for the latest issue of German Vogue magazine. The pictures, taken while Taylor-Wood was pregnant with the couple's first child together, show the pair lying in bed wrapped in a sheet. They became parents to daughter Wylda Rae earlier this month (07Jul10).
Quote: "It feels like I've reared a child. I hope no-one bullies it and everybody likes it." Director Sam Taylor-Wood hopes the public and critics approve of her forthcoming film NOWHERE BOY, about John Lennon's childhood.
Fact: Artist-turned-director Sam Taylor-Wood's John Lennon biopic NOWHERE BOY will debut as the closing movie of the London Film Festival on 29 October (09).