Dornan, on the other hand, needed to be able to hoist up that lean and graceful body during the steamy shower-sex scene the trailers keep teasing.

The film, which UK newspaper the Sun says is even kinkier than the first flick, reportedly includes a racy bit in which Anastasia draws lipstick on Christian’s chest and sex scenes that are “too graphic to describe.”įor her role, Johnson needed a lean and graceful physique. The sequel has Christian and Anastasia exploring the more romantic side of their, ahem, arrangement (the characters famously sign a contract in the first book and movie, with Anastasia agreeing to be the submissive and Christian the dominant). The cast of “Fifty Shades Darker,” however, would be wearing far fewer clothes than her other celebrity clients. For Dornan, shown in the movie trailer breezing through shirtless pull-ups under the smitten gaze of Johnson’s character, “I focused on an athletic muscular frame for him - not too bulky … but strong in appearance.”īraganza typically works on the sets of action movies such as “Warcraft,” in which her client Paula Patton is a scantily clad half-human, half-orc, or more PG shows like “Bull,” in which star Michael Weatherly plays an aggressive, three-piece-suit-wearing trial consultant. “When you think about a movie like ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ you have an idea of being graceful and lean,” says Braganza, 54. Ramona Braganza focused on leg workouts while training Jamie Dornan for “Fifty Shades Darker.”

They needed to dominate in the buff.Įnter Ramona Braganza: the celebrity fitness guru who whipped stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson into shape for the second installment of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy, out in theaters Thursday.īraganza, a former Oakland Raiders cheerleader who has worked with stars such as Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba and Halle Berry, readied Johnson and Dornan for the dramatic sexcapades of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, the BDSM-ing couple central to the book-turned-film series. The cast of “Fifty Shades Darker” didn’t just need to look good naked.

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