Jamie Dornan's Penis Won't Be Shown in Fifty Shades of Grey

"I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey," he said. "I know there are campaigns of hate against me already."

He acknowledged, too, there "is a huge intellectual snobbery about the book," but said, he understands why others might "have preconceived ideas about what it is."

His thoughts on that? "Look, the film is not the book," he said. "It's an adaptation, and Sam Taylor-Johnson is an artist as well as an award-winning film director. Look at her track record. And look at the film studios behind it. Universal. Focus. All I can say is, wait until you see it before passing judgment."

Fifty Shades of Grey is scheduled to hit theaters nationwide on Feb. 13, 2015.

(E!, NBC, Universal Pictures and Focus Features are all part of the NBCUniversal family.)

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