Hannibal Star as Anastasia Steele

It’s a year to go until the Fifty Shades of Grey movie is released in summer 2014, and the cast still hasn’t been picked yet. It’s almost been a year since the rights for the best selling novel of the decade was bought up by Universal Studios and Focus Features, which means we’ve been discussing the movie’s casting for almost a year now. But new names are always cropping up next to old favorites, so let’s talk about the newest edition – Caroline Dhavernas.

The TV series Hannibal has been heating up pretty quickly and is on the fast track to being one of the more popular shows on TV shortly. What’s more interesting, is that some of its stars are getting the spotlight thanks to the Fifty Shades of Grey casting speculations.

The actor Hugh Dancy was recently added to the candidates of Christian Grey, but just lately his co-star Caroline Dhavernas, Dr. Alana Bloom on the TV show, has been recently suggested to play the innocent and virginal Anastasia Steele.

Again, with any casting speculation there will always be some area of controversy, from awarding the role of Christian Grey to an actor who is 35, and casting a 20 year-old Anastasia Steele could raise a few eyebrows, whereas aging up Anastasia Steele is also heavily criticized. Caroline Dhavernas falls into the latter category, being aged 35, which is fifteen years older than the character of Anastasia Steele in the books, and might be pushing the boundaries of disbelief where a virginal college student is concerned.

The Hannibal actress hasn’t discussed the role, but she’s not written it off either. She had the look with her dark hair and large blue eyes, but considering she could be around forty when the series ends could very much work against her.

Other actresses who are still on the list as popular choices are Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, Gilmore Girls’ actress Alexis Bledel and British beauty Felicity Jones. Right now things are drawing close to casting, so we expect the rush for finding the perfect Anastasia Steele could get very interesting pretty soon. Especially with the projected release for summer 2014.

Fifty Shades of Grey is the most read book of the moment, breaking a number of records since it’s release only two years ago. It’s absolutely understandable that it’s going to be one of the biggest movie releases of the decade when it eventually makes it onto the big screen.