Shame is a movie about a seemingly successful man Brandon (Michael Fassbender) with a dark secret: He is a sex addict whose addiction has infiltrated his life to a numbing degree. Director Ang Lee received the Golden Lion Award for the film at Venice Film Festival, his second time wining the award after having won it for his 2005 film Brokeback Mountain. Due to the explicit sex scenes in the film, it was given an NC-17 rating in the United States. Schwartz then requests for a link to the trailer of note.A young woman (Tang Wei) who is a secret agent in World War II is tasked with seducing a dangerous enemy official (Tony Leung Chiu Wai).
Responding to the fan, Schwartz writes on Twitter, “He said they cut him out!” later adding that “he was 100% serious!! He said it MULTIPLE times. Yep, that’s him standing between Mia and Kate all right:
In response to the bonkers news, one fan points out Dancy did appear in one Darker TV spot. OBSERVER: I guess… I’ll have to go on your word. HUGH DANCY: I know, I guess I’m a living contradiction of the internet. OBSERVER: Even though the Wikipedia page and the whole Internet says you are? Two days later, reporter Dana Schwartz releases an excerpt from her transcript to further illuminate the situation: OBSERVER: So you’re not going to be in the next “Fifty Shades” movie Why isn't Hugh Dancy in any of the new Fifty Shades trailers?- Erin Vail January 3, 2017ĭancy throws a curveball and reveals in a January 2017 Observer interview that he is in fact NOT in the film. Vancouver, Canada - Monday April 11, 2016." The accompanying caption from photo agency Pacific Coast News is as follows: "Hugh Dancy arrives into Vancouver to do fittings for Fifty Shades filming. Flynn’s area of practice focused on the mind, not erotic zones of the body.įour days later, Hugh is spotted arriving in Vancouver. See? Fifty Shades Darker would have been PERFECT, though Dr. Before that, he starred in 2011’s Hysteria, a Victorian period drama in which he played a doctor who tried to cure women’s “hysteria” by massaging their genitals. He was last in 2013’s animated film Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, voicing a character named Marshal Mallow. (He is still on the show, which premiered its third season in January 2018).) A role on Fifty Shades Darker would have followed a sizable gap in Dancy’s film career. Originally from England, Flynn moved to Seattle after he married an American woman.ĭancy was then one of the leads of The Path, which had just premiered its first season on Hulu. Elena “Robinson” Lincoln (played by Kim Basinger). John Flynn, a psychiatrist whom Grey begins seeing after the reappearance of his former lover (who initiated him into the world of S&M) Mrs. (The films were shot simultaneously in multiple locations including Vancouver and Paris.) As THR wrote at the time: Dancy will play Dr. The Hollywood Reporter announces Dancy’s casting on April 7, 2016, approximately two months after the start of production on Darker and Freed. Below, a breakdown of how we got here: The casting news Flynn that the world has yet to know about, Dancy’s absence remains one of the greatest mysteries of the Fifty Shades film franchise. Unless there’s a spinoff called Paging Dr. Flynn, Christian’s psychiatrist in Fifty Shades Darker and, possibly, Freed.įast forward to Freed's closing montage (and bonus epilogue-y footage of Ana and Christian in the future with their kid and another one on the way), it looks like Dancy’s scenes - if he even filmed them - were left on the cutting room floor. Not included in these memories, unfortunately, is the talented Hugh Dancy, who was supposed to star as Dr. 9, puts a nice finishing touch to a trilogy that’s blessed the world with Jamie Dornan’s abs, a spectacular pommel horse moment, Dakota Johnson’s eye rolls, and the line, “ You’re not putting those up my butt.” Basically, the film adaptations have given us a lifetime of memories. The release of Fifty Shades Freed on Friday, Feb. This post contains some spoilers about Fifty Shades Freed.