Thursday, November 11, 2021

New Interview of Dakota, Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley for "Total Film" about "The Lost Daughter" (November 2021)

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Transcription by DJL

Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Dakota Johnson star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s searing directional debut, which explores the lesser-told story of motherhood when a beach holiday takes a dark turn. The trio tell Total Film how mutual admiration and Mai Tais helped make The Lost Daughter an awards contender.

It’s clear from sitting in a London hotel suite with Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Jessi Buckley that when they say they enjoyed working together, it’s not for the benefit of column inches. Finishing each other’s sentences and teasing one another, the women are sitting in front of the backdrop of a sun-dappled beach and will later hold hands on the red carpet as their film debuts at the London Film Festival.

With its gorgeous cinematography of Greece and the stars’ jolly banter, you could be forgiven for thinking their project, The Lost Daughter, was a romcom or travel porn. But Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut from her own adapted screenplay of Elena Ferrante’s novel is a bold, questioning thriller that wrongfoots viewers at every turn and promotes conversation about female societal roles, regret and lack of it. Filmed last year on the island of Spetses, The Lost Daughter follows British academic Leda (Colman) as she takes a working holiday to the Attica region. While reading on her sun-lounger she observes young American mother Nina (Johnson) and her little girl – uncovering painful memories from her own past. Buckley essays the young Leda, trapped in a suffocating marriage and struggling to retain a sense of herself.