--- description: Christian Grey’s interests might be “singular,” but it looks like the film adaptation of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey is looking to explore more... title: Sex Scenes Make Up One-Fifth of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Sex Scenes Make Up One-Fifth of _Fifty Shades of Grey_ by [Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2015 3:04 AM CUT by [Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2015 3:04 AM CUT Christian Grey’s interests might be “singular,” but it looks like the film adaptation of E.L. James’ _Fifty Shades of Grey_ is looking to explore more than just one shade of its hunky titular character. According to the [_Sunday Times_](http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk%5Fnews/Arts/article1513861.ece "undefined"), the sex scenes in the film make up for 20 minutes of the overall 100-minute run time. That leaves four-fifths of the film for Christian and Ana to get to dance, write flirty emails, meet parents, and who knows, maybe even talk. As fans of the book know, 20 minutes of sex means there’s less sex in the movie than in the book, though it could point to how the film [escaped an NC-17 rating](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/01/07/fifty-shades-of-grey-mpaa-r-rating "undefined"). _Fifty Shades of Grey_ arrives in theaters Feb. 13. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/02/fifty-shades-of-grey-sex-scenes "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ _Read next:_ [_Kim Kardashian Saw_ ](http://time.com/3695116/fifty-shades-of-grey-kim-kardashian/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined")[Fifty Shades of Grey _Before You_](http://time.com/3695116/fifty-shades-of-grey-kim-kardashian/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3693250/sex-scenes-make-up-one-fifth-of-fifty-shades-of-grey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3693250/sex-scenes-make-up-one-fifth-of-fifty-shades-of-grey/"},"headline":"Sex Scenes Make Up One-Fifth of Fifty Shades of Grey","datePublished":"2015-02-03T03:04:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:05:32.158Z","description":"Christian Grey’s interests might be “singular,” but it looks like the film adaptation of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey is looking to explore more...","url":"https://time.com/3693250/sex-scenes-make-up-one-fifth-of-fifty-shades-of-grey/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3693250/sex-scenes-make-up-one-fifth-of-fifty-shades-of-grey/","name":"Sex Scenes Make Up One-Fifth of Fifty Shades of Grey"}}]}] ```