![]() ![]() ![]() It happens that Washington State University has a campus in the US Vancouver, and it’s here that Anastasia Steele ( Dakota Johnson) is studying journalism. Although the film is made in the famous Canadian city in British Columbia, there is another smaller city of the same name in Washington State (not really such a coincidence – they were both named after British sea captain George Vancouver who explored much of the Pacific Northwest coast). It does get a little confusing here, as there are two Vancouvers. So Christian Grey ( Jamie Dornan) is first seen jogging not around Seattle or Portland, but in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour seafront area and down the steps at Oceanic Plaza on Hastings Street. ![]() The one-time piece of online Twilight fan fiction replaced Harry Potter books and The Da Vinci Code as the necessary adjunct to a long train/bus/plane journey, and the film adaptation happily trots through its by-the-numbers format without expending needless energy on plot, characterisation or dialogue.Īs with the series that inspired it, the story is set in the damp and fittingly grey-skied Pacific Northwest of the USA around Portland and Seattle but, apart from some Second Unit scene setting, was made in Vancouver, largely around the city’s historic downtown core, Gastown, and in the North Shore Studios (formerly Lionsgate Studios), 555 Brooksbank Avenue in North Vancouver. ![]()
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