They always will be for us the Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele. 'So please PLEASE, all of the GREYsessed and Bomerettes in the world NEED those actors. 'Matt Bomer is the PERFECT DESCRIPTION OF CHRISTIAN GREY AND ALEXIS BLEDEL IS THE PERFECT ACTRESS TO REPRESENT ANASTASIA STEELE and if THEY ARE NOT, NOBODY WILL BE And I read the whole trilogy and I can assure that Matt is the perfect actor for this movie and Alexis too,' reads the petition.

The announcement, made on Twitter, ended more than 18 months of furious speculation, but left some fans unhappy.īomer, best known for supporting roles in Magic Mike and In Time, as well as the TV show White Collar, has topped a number of fan polls, with Bledel, of Gilmore Girls and Sin City fame, his preferred partner.

In the latest example of the site being used as a conduit to try to influence Hollywood casting decisions, more than 17,000 people have joined a call for producers to remove the duo and replace them with Matt Bomer and Alexis Bledel.Īuthor EL James, whose steamy novel has sold more than 70m copies worldwide, revealed on Monday that Hunnam and Johnson had been cast as kinky billionaire Christian Grey and blushing virgin Anastasia Steele. Angry fans of literary sensation Fifty Shades of Grey have taken to the campaigning web platform to express their disgust at the casting of Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson in Sam Taylor-Johnson's forthcoming film adaptation.

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