Forget the playroom... In Fifty Shades Darker, it's Christian Grey's closet that starts creaking open, as we meet more of the women who shaped his life. The latest addition to the cast is Bella Heathcote.
She's been hired to play Leila, one of Christian's (Jamie Dornan) former lovers, a young woman who still has the emotional scars of their relationship. Wonder what secrets she'll be sharing with his current lover Anastasia Steel (Dakota Johnson?
Heathcote joins Kim Basinger in the New Arrivals column, with Luke Grimes, Eloise Mumford and Max Martini all reprising their roles from the original. Fifty Shades Darker deepens the issues, but also the connection between Christian and Anastasia, while digging into their world a little further.
Niall Leonard – husband of book trilogy author E.L. James – has been working on the script with his wife, with James Foley on board to direct both this and Fifty Shades Freed.
Fifty Shades Darker arrives on February 10 next year, with Freed landing on February 19, 2018. As for Heathcote, she'll next be on screens in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, which arrives next week.