--- title: Fifty Shades of Grey Movie: Steve Buscemi is Christian Grey in Trailer description: Buscemi dominates the new trailer canonical: https://time.com/3703273/fifty-shades-of-grey-movie-steve-buscemi/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-10T17:56:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:36.502Z og:title: The Only Thing That Makes 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Sexier Is Steve Buscemi og:description: Buscemi dominates the new trailer og:url: https://time.com/3703273/fifty-shades-of-grey-movie-steve-buscemi/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc25671399769f6e0/69877e5f35ba6f2920c06f9a/fifty-shades.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: Fifty Shades of Gray og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Only Thing That Makes 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Sexier Is Steve Buscemi twitter:description: Buscemi dominates the new trailer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc25671399769f6e0/69877e5f35ba6f2920c06f9a/fifty-shades.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Only Thing That Makes _Fifty Shades of Grey_ Sexier Is Steve Buscemi > Sponsored content. 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James, the author of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy, to New York_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 10, 2015 5:56 PM UTC  Dakota Johnson and James Dornan star in Fifty Shades of Grey Dakota Johnson and James Dornan star in Fifty Shades of Grey Chuck Zlotnick—Universal Pictures by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 10, 2015 5:56 PM UTC _Fifty Shades of Grey_ star Jamie Dornan has a few things going for him — smoldering eyes, chiseled jaw, sizzling intensity and the ability to speak in a flawless [Scottish accent](http://time.com/3702688/jimmy-fallon-jamie-dornan-fifty-shades-of-grey/). It’s easy to believe author [E.L. James](http://time.com/3702696/fifty-shades-of-grey-sam-taylor-johnson-el-james/) had someone similar in mind for the character of [Christian Grey](http://time.com/3696868/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-christian-grey/) while she wrote the novel that became a global phenomenon. The only person who could, ahem, dominate Dornan as the buttoned-up business man with singular tastes is, of course, Steve Buscemi. Luckily Internet heroes [BooYa Pictures](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyxCRqY3PmMco2hwydZY0A) have taken it upon themselves to improve the original _Fifty Shades_ movie trailer by replacing Dornan with the _Boardwalk Empire_ star_._ In the vastly superior clip, perky college grad Anastasia Steele ([Dakota Johnson](http://time.com/3700187/fifty-shades-of-grey-dakota-johnson/)) comes to interview the CEO of Grey Enterprises and can’t help but fall in lust with the man behind the desk, who now played by Buscemi. Can you blame her? _Read next:_ [_This_ Fifty Shades of Grey _LEGO Spoof Gives a Whole New Meaning to the Words ‘Sex Toy’_](http://time.com/3698018/fifty-shades-of-grey-lego-movie-trailer/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3703273/fifty-shades-of-grey-movie-steve-buscemi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3703273/fifty-shades-of-grey-movie-steve-buscemi/"},"headline":"The Only Thing That Makes Fifty Shades of Grey Sexier Is Steve Buscemi","datePublished":"2015-02-10T17:56:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:36.502Z","description":"Buscemi dominates the new trailer","url":"https://time.com/3703273/fifty-shades-of-grey-movie-steve-buscemi/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","Videos","Viral Videos","jamie dornan"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc25671399769f6e0/69877e5f35ba6f2920c06f9a/fifty-shades.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc25671399769f6e0/69877e5f35ba6f2920c06f9a/fifty-shades.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fifty Shades of Gray","caption":"Fifty Shades of Gray","creditText":"Chuck Zlotnick—Universal Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3703273/fifty-shades-of-grey-movie-steve-buscemi/","name":"The Only Thing That Makes Fifty Shades of Grey Sexier Is Steve Buscemi"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Video: Fans Welcome E.L. 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