We all laughed and cringed our way through the first Fifty Shades film, shamelessly ogling Jamie Dornan while questioning ourselves as feminists.

At times, the script was so uncomfortable (remember Dornan saying “I’m fifty shades of fucked up,” and Anastasia Steele conducting the worst journalistic interview of all time: “Are you gay, Mr Grey?”) And yet, we’d be lying if we said we weren’t secretly looking forward to the second installment.

Along with the original line-up – Dornan, Dakota Johnson, Luke Grimes, Eloise Mumford and Max Martini – Universal has just announced the latest actor to join the cast for the second film, Fifty Shades Darker – and it’s none other than Kim Basinger.

The latest cast member of the Fifty Shades franchise has been announced