There's more casting news for the movie "Fifty Shades of Grey." Jennifer Ehle is in talks to play Anastasia Steele's mother. E.L. James hasn't announced the news but The Hollywood Reporter claims the actress has already been cast.
Ehle will play Carla, Steele's southern mom who is in her fourth marriage. This is the first casting news since the author's Labor Day announcement that Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam will star as the leads.
Ehle recently shot the upcoming movie "Robocop" and has also appeared in "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Contagion."
This news comes right after reports that Hunnam wanted to quit the move and was reportedly regretting signing on as Christian Grey. According to Celebrity Dirty Laundry, the actor was trying to get out of his contract to star in the movie.
It was reported that the amount of fan backlash was the reason he no longer wanted to play the kinky, domineering billionaire. Fans began attacking the official casting decision almost immediately after James announced it.
James shut down the rumor on Twitter posting writing "Guess who..." including a picture of Hunnam's forearm tattoo that his character Jax Teller wears on the show "Sons of Anarchy."
The film has been given a release date of Aug. 1, 2014 and is supposed to begin filming in the fall. James and "Team 50" still have a lot more other casting announcements to make. The next big announcement will most likely be for Kate Kavanagh, Elliot Grey and Jose Rodriguez.
Blake Lively and Katrina Bowden are in talks to star as Steele's best friend, while Chris Hemsworth is said to be a fan-favorite to play Grey's older brother. There are some reports that casting for the second leading should be announced soon but just like with Steele and Grey, the chemistry between the actors needs to be hot-and-heavy.
From the book, Kavanagh and Elliot can't keep their hands off each other and are definitely more openly sexual than Steele and Christian.
As far as who will play Jose Rodriguez, Mark Sailing, Ryan Guzman, Diego Boneta, Carlos Pena Jr., Jessie Garcia and Tyler Posey have been fan-favorites.
What do you think about Jennifer Ehle as Anastasia's mom?
