Dakota Johnson wants to play a psychopath: ‘I’m open to anything’
Dakota Johnson played a hippie, a witch and a blind and clairvoyant mutant – it is now time for blood.
The American Star Movie, 35 Materialists And will soon appear in the physical comedy of Michael Angelo Covino in Cannes Splitsville. Comedy? Conquered. Drama? She did it. Romance? Second nature at this stage. What is the next step?
During an appearance of a weekend, Johnson said that she was impatient to play a “psychopath”, Variety reported. She “would love to make an action film”.
“I am open to anything. Some things [just have] To line up, “she told the press while attending the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, where she received the distinguished President’s Award.
Johnson is the daughter of actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, who both played roles during their various careers who could be interpreted as in the psychopathic vein.
Griffith played characters notoriously dislocated in Brian de Palma Double bodily And Jonathan Demme’s Something wildAnd Johnson played a revenge threat in the 1993 thriller Guilty as a sin and a diabolical vigilante in Robert Rodriguez Machete. Johnson’s grandmother, Tippi Hedren, played in two films of one of the most clever chroniclers of psychopathic behavior in American cinema: Alfred Hitchcock. Hedren is at the top of the two Birds in 1963 and Marnie in 1964.
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Dakota posted remarkable versatility during his career, but a real role as a real villain, outside, has so far escaped him.
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Ironically, Johnson’s career started with the film Crazy in alabamaWho played Griffith, but the closest to the actress may have come to play a psychopath is her role as Susie Bannion in the remake of Luca Guadagnino of Horror Classic Suspiria. In the film, Johnson’s young dancer, freshly written in the mysterious Markos Dance Academy in pre-reunification of Berlin-West, descends more deeply into a network of conspiracy, witchcraft and murder-and learns to love her.
Now, a certified A-Lister which is “in a position to be producer and to develop my own films” and can “choose all the people who are there”, “Johnson is free to take his time to select the perfect role of the psychopath. But first of all, viewers will be able to see it in the second attempt to adapt a book by Ultra-BestSeller Colleen.Truth The Co-Star Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett are directed by Research part The co-creator Michael Showalter, and should be presented in first next summer.