‘The author is very lucky that Sam Taylor-Johnson is directing,
because when I read the book, as a feminist, I found it offensive and degrading.
‘The language was atrocious. It was like a 200-page text message.'
'And it’s all about putting a man on a pedestal and the female being beneath him and feeling inadequate and turned on by his dominance. I don’t think that’s a very empowering message for young people.
‘I’m all for anyone doing whatever they like in the bedroom – I’m not a prude. I do think it’s fine to be submissive and dominant if that’s what you’re into.
'But in that book, outside of the bedroom, she’s constantly putting him above her.
If they’d have asked me to do the soundtrack I would have said no. Luckily, they didn’t.’
Has she ever dabbled with bondage?
‘Personally, I’m not really into it, but it’s interesting psychologically,’ she says, coolly.
‘I’ve read a lot of books about it, one by the Marquis de Sade – bloody hell! I couldn’t put it down! But bondage is a lot deeper than just “I like being tied up.”’
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