Thursday, May 5, 2016
New Interview of the "A Bigger Splash" Cast /& Director with The New York Times
-Dakota's part is almost at the end-
Midway through “A Bigger Splash,” the latest hedonistic trip from the Italian director Luca Guadagnino, Ralph Fiennes’s character, Harry, puts on the Rolling Stones’ “Emotional Rescue” album and starts to dance. His shoulders twitch, his body flails, and in a sort of drunken ritual set in the middle of a luxurious vacation home on an island off the coast of Sicily, he tears through the house, his awkward movements getting bigger and more daring — the music propelling him into a state of almost fearsome abandon.
It is a climactic scene for Harry and the other characters in a film in which the body and its capacity to revel in all the senses — be it through music, food, sex or the heat of volcanic rocks — are pushed to the extreme.
Based loosely on the 1969 French New Wave thriller “La Piscine,” or the “The Swimming Pool,” the movie, which opened May 4, stars Mr. Fiennes as an outlandish music producer and the ex-lover of Marianne Lane, played by Tilda Swinton. A rock star in the vein of Chrissie Hynde or David Bowie, Marianne has had surgery on her vocal cords and has traveled to the remote island of Pantelleria to recuperate with her current boyfriend, Paul, a much younger filmmaker (Matthias Schoenaerts). But when Harry and his recently discovered daughter, Penelope (a Lolita-esque Dakota Johnson), pay an unexpected visit, much sex, emotional tussling and intrigue ensue on a vacation that goes violently awry.
With the migrant crisis looming in the background, the brutal natural beauty of the island becomes a sort of fifth character. But music, particularly by the Stones, also plays an outsize role. “I wanted to create a movie that is rooted in the nostalgic world of rock ’n’ roll,” Mr. Guadagnino said by phone, explaining that Marianne, Paul, Harry and his daughter “are the last to enjoy the freedom of the rock ’n’ roll revolution, a revolution that was about endless enjoyment, it was meant to never finish. So what happens when the party ends? Or when one person doesn’t want it to?”
The film’s debut at the Venice Film Festival last year was notably contentious — booed by some Italian viewers who were reportedly displeased with the depiction of a star-struck local police detective but largely impressing English-language critics. There was “something fitting about that divided response,” A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote, since the film “is about foreigners behaving badly on Italian soil.”
Befitting a film about four strong but very different characters, Mr. Guadagnino and his stars each brought ideas to the project that somehow melded into what The Guardian has called “a chamber piece of sexual tension.”
Studiocanal approached Mr. Guadagnino, who is probably best known in the United States for the lush romance “I Am Love” (2010), also starring Ms. Swinton, about remaking “La Piscine” as part of an effort to give new life to works in its extensive library. As Ron Halpern, Studiocanal’s executive vice president for international production, explained the thinking: The film “was very iconic but something very pure: four people in a beautiful spot and someone is going to die. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see a new version of that movie today?” (Fox Searchlight is distributing the film in the United States.)
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
New "A Bigger Splash" Featurette Video - "Beneath the Surface"
/Click on the image to watch the video/
New Exclusive Pictures of Dakota at the MET Gala 2016 [May 2nd, 2016]
Picture of Dakota with Matt [and Riley at the back] shared by E! Online.
Picture of Dakota shared by Vogue Magazine. On the Picture: Karlie Kloss, Saoirse Ronan and Juno Temple.
Shared by Riley to Vogue Magazine for the Special Edition of the Event.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
New Fan Pictures of Dakota in New York City earlier today [May 3rd, 2016]
@keioni_: @dakotajohnson is such a sweetheart ☺️ thank you for stopping yesterday! Enjoy the rest of filming Fifty Shades Darker 💖🍆🍑🍒🙈👔💎
@KaylaCorcoran: Someone please tell me how my dad just met Dakota Johnson from 50 shades of grey while I was at dance
@itsNizzle: Thank you soooo much Dakota for taking the time to stop for photos today
Pictures + Videos of Dakota with Fans in New York City this afternoon [May 3rd, 2016]
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Fan Pictures
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Fan Pictures
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Dakota no Snapchat do @marktownsend1 pic.twitter.com/Zgsxrhtem9— Dakotashades (@Dakotashades) 3 May 2016
THIS IS PART OF THE VIDEO I TOOK pic.twitter.com/sWdN74zPt1— sofia (@angelicdakota) 3 May 2016
New Interview of Dakota with USA Today
Directed by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, the English-language drama follows Marianne Lane (Swinton), a David Bowie-esque rock star who, after possibly career-ending vocal surgery, retreats to an island getaway with her lover (Schoenaerts). Upon arrival, the couple gets a surprise visit from Marianne's former flame, record producer Harry Hawkes (Fiennes), and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson). As red wine flows and clothes come off, the four become entangled in a complicated web of sex and secrets with ultimately fatal results.
Reading the script for the first time, "I was captivated by how intricate these four characters are, and how they mix and match and intertwine," Johnson says. In Penelope, she sees a woman "who is hyper-intelligent and hypersexual, and finds amusement in playing with people's emotions and relationships. She's a scary young girl and does some pretty (messed-) up things to people, and thank God she suffers the consequences."
Johnson, 26, signed on for Splash just a week before it started filming on the remote Italian island of Pantelleria in 2014, replacing Margot Robbie, who dropped out. But when she jetted to the Sicilian coast for a table read, she initially second-guessed her decision.
"It was so last minute," Johnson says. "I just didn't feel like I was capable of doing it, and I felt like I had wasted everyone's time. I told Luca, 'I'm so sorry, I really don't think I can do this film.' Then Tilda sat me down and was like, 'This is going to be OK, you are going to be fine. We will take care of you and you are capable of doing this.' And I was like, 'OK.' "
Because of the island's arid, rocky terrain and jellyfish-infested waters, Splash's two-month shoot wasn't the vacation paradise it appears to be in the film. As a result, "we all became pretty close," Johnson says. "There really wasn't much to do, so we'd just play cards and watch movies."
Johnson is filming the next two Grey installments: Next year's Fifty Shades Darker and 2018's Fifty Shades Freed. "We're shooting them simultaneously, which is (confusing), but it's going really well," she says. Afterward, she'll reunite with her Splash team for two more films: music drama The Sound of Metal, with Schoenaerts, and horror thriller Suspira, directed by Guadagnino and co-starring Swinton.
"It's weird," Johnson says with a laugh. "I can't stay away from these people."
Monday, May 2, 2016
New Fan Pictures of Dakota in New York City last night [May 1st, 2016]
@jacqueline_frye: When I bumped into Dakota she looks so perfect and was so sweet last night & recognized me again yas.
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