Saturday, May 30, 2020
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Thursday, May 28, 2020
New Interview of Dakota with Glamour
These days a simple movie night can turn into an overwhelming existential crisis. Do you finally get around to watching that new critically acclaimed series everyone's been talking about? Or turn on a beloved favorite for the hundredth time? With so many streaming services and on-demand options available, something meant to be fun has become just another stressor in our lives.
But an unlikely hero has emerged to help: Dakota Johnson.
The actor says she, too, was tired of "content overload." So she and Ro Donnelly, her cofounder in the production company TeaTime Pictures, started creating easily digestible top 10 lists on Instagram of all the things they're connecting with at the moment. "With the pandemic and having everyone at home, we launched the lists sooner than expected so that we could help people decide what to watch easier," Johnson says. "That's the goal of it: to make choosing content a little bit more easy."
Considering Johnson is so adept at recommending what to watch, I hit her up for our latest installment of Your Fave's Faves to ask what queue-worthy content she suggests. She also shared what she's been reading and buying lately, as well as some behind-the-scenes tidbits about her new movie The High Note, available on demand May 29, in which she plays a personal assistant to a famous singer (played by the brilliant Tracee Ellis Ross). Johnson and Ross have an easy chemistry that'll pair so well with a glass of wine and your comfiest blanket. See? I told you Dakota Johnson was great at picking your next movie night. See more of her selects, below.
The best thing about her character in The High Note
Her ambition and drive seem a little bit otherworldly. I identify with the drive to keep going, no matter how many times you're told no.
Dakota will be on "Late Late Show With James Corden" on June 3rd, 2020
Dakota Johnson to appear on the June 3 Late Late Show With James Corden https://t.co/qTHtOa60Z4— Headline Planet (@headlineplanet) May 28, 2020
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Monday, May 25, 2020
New Interview of Dakota with GMA News
LOS ANGELES — Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Janelle Monae and Hong Chau recently talked to us on a video call about their latest projects and coping with the pandemic and isolation.
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Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross, both daughters of celebrities, are both featured in the film, “The High Note.”
Not only does Ross, the daughter of the legendary singer Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein, sing for the first time in public at age 47 in the movie. She also recorded six original songs for the film and debuted her first song, “Love Myself,” the lead single off the soundtrack of the movie, which she described as simply just appropriate during these challenging times.
Johnson, the 30-year-old daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith who shot to fame with her portrayal of Anastasia Steele in the erotic “Fifty Shades of Grey” franchise, is featured in the movie as Maggie Sherwood, a personal assistant.
Saturday, May 23, 2020
New Interview of Dakota with Inquirer
LOS ANGELES—Dakota Johnson was sitting in the den of her LA home, with a piano behind her—an apt setting since she plays on one in her new film, “The High Note.”
In the Focus Features film directed by Nisha Ganatra, Dakota plays Maggie, an overworked personal assistant to Tracee Ellis Ross’ pop superstar, Grace Davis. Maggie herself has dreams of becoming a music producer even as she is stuck running errands.
Also starring in the feel-good movie are Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ice Cube, Zoe Chao, Bill Pullman and Eddie Izzard.
In our video call, Dakota, who is dating Coldplay’s Chris Martin, also talks about her own relationship to music, her shared kinship with Tracee (the diva Diana Ross’ daughter), the pandemic crisis and a film project that excites her.
In playing a personal assistant, did you tap your own personal details? You were probably surrounded by personal assistants, beginning with your parents.
No, not really. The writer, Flora Greeson, was an assistant, so a lot of the circumstances came from her. The part that was important to me of filling out the human aspect of Maggie was her ambition, strength, drive and attention to expanding her talent.
Friday, May 22, 2020
Dakota will appear on “Stir Crazy” Digital Series
Dakota will appear on “Stir Crazy” next week, either on Tuesday or Thursday on Comedy Central's YouTube and Facebook pages. The serie is hosted by Josh Horowitz.
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Zoƫ Chao mentions Dakota with HFPA
How would you describe Katie, the character you play in The High Note, and her relationship with Maggie, played by Dakota Johnson?
Katie was based on screenwriter Flora Greeson’s best friend in real life. She is a doctor and Maggie’s roommate, she is her touchstone and sounding board, she is Maggie’s connection to the world outside of the music industry and she keeps Maggie grounded. It was really special working with Dakota, because we did a chemistry read together, and from the first second we met, it felt like we were old friends and our friendship has extended beyond the project.
“Love Myself" Official Music Video - From "The High Note"
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Friday, May 15, 2020
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Dakota will star in "‘Don’t Worry, Darling" directed by Olivia Wilde
Variety: Dakota Johnson is in negotiations to join the starry ensemble of “Don’t Worry, Darling,” a psychological thriller from director Olivia Wilde, sources tell Variety.
Johnson will appear alongside the previously announced cast of Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine. Wilde has a key supporting role onscreen.
Though little is known about the movie’s plot, “Don’t Worry, Darling” is set in an isolated, utopian community in the 1950s California desert.
Katie Silberman, who co-wrote “Booksmart” and penned the Netflix rom-com “Set it Up,” will write a new draft of the script.
New Line Cinemas is backing “Don’t Worry, Darling” and considers it a high priority, having landed the rights after a heated bidding war due to the critical acclaim of Wilde’s directorial debut “Booksmart.”
Catherine Hardwicke is executive producing the film, alongside Shane and Carey Van Dyke. Wilde and Silberman will produce along with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment. Daria Cercek and Celia Khong will oversee the project for New Line.
“Don’t Worry, Darling” reunites Johnson with LaBeouf, her co-star in 2019’s indie hit “The Peanut Butter Falcon.” Johnson also recently appeared in “The Friend,” “Wounds” and director Luca Guadagnino’s remake of “Suspiria.”
Johnson stars next in “The High Note,” a romantic comedy from Focus Features. Tracey Ellis Ross, Bill Pullman and Ice Cube co-star.
She is repped by WME and Untitled.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Sunday, May 10, 2020
[Better Quality] "The High Note" First Clip Starring Dakota and Tracee Ellis Ross
Now we can have a better look at the scene from #TheHighNote shown during the Oprah's "2020 Vision" Tour back in February. Dakota playing the piano and Tracee singing šš #DakotaJohnson— Dakota Johnson Fans (@LifeDJohnson) May 10, 2020
š: https://t.co/ajdGeUcADo
Thanks to @dakotajohnsonpt for the heads up! pic.twitter.com/r9FRmK3uso
Saturday, May 9, 2020
"The High Note" TV Spots
#TheHighNote Tv Spot with New Scenes špic.twitter.com/zUybow6o6t— Dakota Johnson Fans (@LifeDJohnson) May 8, 2020
#TheHighNote Tv Spot with New Scenes ✨❤— Dakota Johnson Fans (@LifeDJohnson) May 9, 2020
š¹: thehighnotefilm on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/uWeuk2J1OL
Friday, May 8, 2020
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Friday, May 1, 2020
Dakota Johnson Wants to Take Over Your TV
Dakota Johnson is just like you—overwhelmed by peak everything, at a loss as to what to watch, googling “best of Netflix….” Or rather, she was operating in this perpetually dissatisfied mode until she realized that she didn’t need other people telling her what to watch or read or listen to. “I have very specific tastes,” she tells me from her home in L.A., where she’s been sheltering since social-distancing rules went into effect. “I know what I think is good and worthy and profound. It’s the things that have honesty and integrity, a sense of wonder behind the storytelling, and pay profound attention to detail.”
It’s these kinds of cultural products that Johnson hopes to champion through her production company, TeaTime, launched last fall with her friend (and former Netflix exec) Ro Donnelly—“I stole her,” Johnson cheerfully explains. “The ideas for TeaTime was to allow people to experience what we think is brilliant and hilarious and thought-provoking.” The company has several projects in development, but given the shutdown of life as we know it, many of these things have been pushed back to uncertain timelines. Right now, however, Johnson and Donnelly are releasing top-10 lists of their favorite things to stream, and, at the top of each month, their favorite things to read and art happenings to “visit.”
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