Dakota Johnson is widening her internet of roles. The “Materialists” and “Madame Net” star voiced her targets of showing in an motion movie and enjoying a “psychopath.”
“There are roles that I dream of enjoying,” Johnson mentioned through the Karlovy Differ Movie Competition, through THR. “I’d like to play a psychopath, would like to do an motion movie.”
The actress/producer additionally mentioned she is planning a characteristic directorial debut, reuniting with “Cha Cha Actual Clean” star Vanessa Burghardt for the potential movie. Burghardt wrote the script.
“I believe I’ll direct a characteristic, a really small one, hopefully quickly. And it’s actually near my coronary heart and really near [my production banner] TeaTime,” Johnson mentioned. “We’re making it with Vanessa Burghardt, who performed my daughter in ‘Cha Cha Actual Clean.’ She’s an unimaginable autistic actress.”
Johnson continued, “I’ve at all times felt that I’m not able to direct a characteristic. I don’t have the arrogance, however, together with her, I really feel very protecting and I do know her very properly. I can see this world, so I simply received’t let anyone else do it. That’s the actual reply.”
Johnson beforehand directed the TIFF-selected brief movie “Loser Child.” She mentioned whereas at Karlovy Differ that as a producer, she seems to be for tasks that elicit a visceral response. “Often, it’s one thing that’s both visually or emotionally provocative. And I don’t imply that in a sexual means. I imply it in [the sense] that it provokes one thing that’s completely different than what you see on TV proper now or on streaming platforms,” she mentioned of tasks that TeaTime greenlights. “A whole lot of them are additionally feminine characters. So it’s female-centric movies the place the girl is completely different from what you see, and complicated and nuanced, and possibly an anti-hero that you simply love.”
She added that tasks may even characteristic a girl character “who possibly does issues that you’d deem atrocious, however you’re actually on her facet as a result of she’s offended.”