Fifty Shades Freed (film) set to return in the lead roles. On February 8, 2016, Arielle Kebbel was cast in the film to play Gia Matteo, a beautiful architect who is hired by Christian to build his home, and on February 12, 2016, Eric Johnson was cast as Jack Hyde, Ana's boss at SIP and stalker. On February 20, 2016, Brant Daugherty signed on to play Sawyer, the personal bodyguard for Anastasia. In November 2015, Universal Studios announced that "Fifty Shades Darker" and "Fifty Shades Freed" would be shot back-to-back, with principal photography scheduled to commence in early 2016. Filming took place in Paris
Fifty Shades (novel series) Angeles Times" writer Carolyn Kellogg, while a "New York Daily News" headline read, "Civilization ends: E.L. James named Publishers Weekly's ‘Person of the Year’." "Fifty Shades trilogy" has also attracted criticism due to its depictions of BDSM, with Katie Roiphe of "Newsweek" asking "But why, for women especially, would free will be a burden? ... It may be that power is not always that comfortable, even for those of us who grew up in it; it may be that equality is something we want only sometimes and in some places and in some arenas; it may be that power and