Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Gray, Black Mess, Suspiria) is more likely to direct her first characteristic based mostly on a script by an autistic actress she has acted with in a movie, needs to proceed telling female-centric tales by her TeaTime Footage, keep away from “poisonous units,” measure the success of flicks when it comes to viewer influence moderately than field workplace and would like to play a psychopath and an motion function, the actress stated on Sunday.
Requested by reporters throughout a press roundtable on the 59th version of the Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Pageant (KVIFF) within the Czech Republic about whether or not she is going to transfer past appearing and producing into directing, Johnson replied: “I believe I’ll direct a characteristic, a really small one, hopefully quickly. And it’s actually near my coronary heart and really near TeaTime. We’re making it with Vanessa Burghardt, who performed my daughter in Cha Cha Actual Easy. She’s an unimaginable autistic actress.”
The star shared: “I’ve all the time felt that I’m not able to direct a characteristic. I don’t have the arrogance. However along with her, I really feel very protecting, and I do know her very properly, and … I simply received’t let anyone else do it.”
As a director, Johnson has already made the Coldplay music video “Cry Cry Cry” and the quick movie Loser Child.
What attracts her curiosity when selecting TeaTime tasks? “Often, it’s one thing that’s both visually or emotionally provocative. And I don’t imply that in a sexual manner. I imply it in [the sense] that it provokes one thing that’s totally different than what you see on TV proper now or on streaming platforms. Quite a lot of them are additionally feminine characters. So it’s female-centric movies the place the lady is totally different from what you see, and complicated and nuanced, and possibly an anti-hero that you simply love.” Tasks may even characteristic a girl “who possibly does issues that you’d deem atrocious, however you might be actually on her aspect as a result of she’s offended” and actual, Johnson defined.
Producing has the profit that she will be able to encompass herself with individuals who create a constructive work expertise. “I can’t waste time on poisonous units anymore,” Johnson stated. “With producing, that’s one of many perks.”
She informed reporters that she was “fairly vocal” when points arose on set or past from a really younger age. “Now, … being a producer and growing my very own movies, I can select all of the individuals.”
The star additionally known as for brand spanking new methods to measure the success of flicks. “I believe that the barometer for that’s shifting proper now. It’s onerous to measure success based mostly on field workplace numbers now, as a result of it’s so in every single place,” she provided. Mentioning that Jurassic Park Rebirth has “slayed,” she stated that, “the way in which I measure success is [in terms of] individuals who felt one thing or it meant one thing to them” — or individuals coming as much as her on the street and telling her that they cherished a movie.
Johnson made time for assembly the press earlier than receiving the KVIFF President’s Award on Saturday night earlier than a screening of her new movie Materialists, which was directed by Celine Track and likewise stars Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans.
The second movie that Johnson offered at KVIFF is the Michael Angelo Covino-directed romantic comedy Splitsville, which she additionally produced below her TeaTime Footage banner, launched in 2019 along with her producing associate Ro Donnelly.
Are there any varieties of characters she’d like to tackle sooner or later? “There are roles that I dream of taking part in,” Johnson shared. “I might like to play a psychopath, would like to do an motion movie.”
Johnson additionally shared that “I like coming to movie festivals, simply because everybody loves films a lot, and it appears like a magical little bubble in a world stuffed with chaos and ache.” She added: “I believe artwork can actually attain individuals, and so, … festivals in locations like this make me really feel impressed and hopeful.”
Concluded Johnson: “It’s actually onerous to make films proper now and to get individuals to imagine in what you need to say. I don’t assume films will save the world, under no circumstances, however I do assume it’s good to have them round.”
Johnson made her movie debut at age 10 in Antonio Banderas’ 1999 film Loopy in Alabama. In 2010, she appeared in David Fincher’s The Social Community. Her latest credit have included the likes of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Misplaced Daughter (2021) and Carrie Cracknell’s Persuasion (2022). She subsequent stars in Amazon’s Michael Showalter-directed romance thriller Verity, reverse Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett.
“Dakota Johnson continues her household’s multigenerational appearing custom, as represented by her grandmother Tippy Hedren and each of her mother and father, award-winning Hollywood stars Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson,” pageant organizers had highlighted after they unveiled that she would go to the picturesque Czech spa city to obtain the consideration.