But despite a lull in job offers post Fifty Shades, she was adamant that she would not return to direct the sequel - in fact, she insists that she won't even be watching them.
'It was like wading through sticky tar.
"Two different creative visions", the director recently told The Hollywood Reporter.
According to People, Sam Taylor-Johnson was greatly interested in working on "Fifty Shades" because she viewed it as a very interesting project: something like a "dysfunctional fairy tale". That said, there was clearly a dilemma while making "Fifty Shades Of Grey", as the director and the writer were in disagreement most of the time.
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In recent interviews, recalled her and James' friction over the original film. "It went well in terms of box office, but less well with my relationship with Erika", she said. "Her thing was, 'This is what the fans expect.' I'd be like, 'Well, let's try and hit those marks but create a new universe at the same time, ' " Taylor-Johnson explained. "I wanted kids, we had kids and I was really into that, taking time off and involving myself in the bubble of her pregnancy". The success of the franchise is quite expected as it is based on a best-seller novel by British author E. L. James.
But Sam Taylor-Johnson's penchant for raunchy cinema isn't what people tend to talk about when it comes to discussing the 50-year-old director.
Her run-in with EL James was, as she puts it, a "her vision versus mine" situation. "I don't understand when I can't navigate a person, when there's no synergy". Of course I wouldn't. The project revolves around psychiatrist Jean, played by Naomi Watts, who develops risky intimate relationships with the people involved with her patients. Taylor-Johnson called the experience "ego-denting".
"I'd be mad. It was a struggle and there were lots of onset tête-à-têtes, with me trying to bat it into the (right) place", said Taylor-Johnson, who went on to say that she was "so confused by EL James". "At the same time, I was like, 'Oh, I still have to keep fighting for stuff.' I just thought it was going to come a lot easier".
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