Director Luca Guadagnino talks about Dakota with "The Telegraph"

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As soon as Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson are on the scene, a situation that would take a lot of words to untangle becomes explosively tense around the mute diva.

Guadagnino cast the film with the expertise of an aficionado. “Who knows me knows that I am a very big cinephile,” he says. Though he hadn’t met Dakota Johnson before, he “felt the DNA: of course, she’s the granddaughter of Tippi Hedren and the daughter of Melanie Griffiths. How could I resist that?” he asks.

Read the complete Interview HERE.