Zero Dark Thirty's Jennifer Ehle moves on to different kind of torture in Fifty Shades Of Grey
After playing a supporting role in Zero Dark Thirty, Jennifer Ehle is moving on to another film that combines numbers, the absence of light, and torture, both emotional and anal. Ehle will play Carla, the mother to Dakota Johnson’s Anastasia Steele character, in the adaptation of E.L. James’ multibillion-dollar Twilight fan fiction Fifty Shades Of Grey, which required a mother character to lend its buttplug scenes emotional depth. Hence there is Carla, a “flighty, self-centered woman” who is “easily bored” and has been married four times, giving her the appropriate experience to spout world-weary clichés about trusting men, so that both her daughter and the reader understand that love is always complicated, and sometimes you should just sign a contract to be a wealthy man’s sex slave and/or socket. Indeed, it’s a classic tale as old as Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice, the adaptation of which Ehle once starred in before Fifty Shades fixed it.